[Phanatik]

Welcome to the city

Welcome to the gritty concrete

Where cons and creeps sweep sweet, pretty young girls off their feet

Off the Ave., off the beaten path

Cops walk the beat and clash with the bad bloods

The average thug is not a savage but

Likes to behave like Hades spat him up

This is "home of" the white tee's

Over the "wife beaters" down to the white sneaks

This must be a man's world cause

All these girls dress like they're dancers in the club

I drove up 106 and parked 'til it got dark

And watched as the L's got sparked

The shells shot sharp and whizzed by

And all I could think to myself is that Hell's not far A car stopped

The window came down

She lied about her age, hopped in and went down the wrong road

A song showed her how to get it

Radio played it, no edit

Video aided and abetted

A mom calls on Christ's name

As her youngest son takes his slain brother's place at the dice game

Nice aim, they taught you to aim for nothing and look

You hit it dead on the button

And we say it's all good just 'cause it's all hood

If only we all could live like we should



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First we grab the text

Next we read His mind

Then we hit the set

The set gets redesigned

Redefine city

Redefine hood

Redefine all

Redefine good

Redefine him

Redefine her

We need to try and swim

Up against the current

Redefine live

Redefine church

Read the fine print

From the divine Word



[Phanatik]

My XXL tells XXX tales

Sells XXX video cassettes through the mail

Since sex sells I guess the next logical step

Was for them to turn around and sell sex

I wrote 'em, they never wrote me back

Maybe it's time to go our separate ways like Kobe and Shaq

Hold up, rewind that - redefine that

Imagine the media feeding us divine facts

What if our magazines felt like they just had to screen what they gave us

And cared about how our kids were raised up?

Picture the radio letting a brotha' save a soul

And not playin' a jam unless it's showin' us the way to go

That's what the city could use and needs to see

New you's and me's troopin' these city streets

And just in case you can' t recollect

How this could be done let me run it down step by step



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[Phanatik]

Your dealin' with a pity feelin' X villain

Was feelin' pity for my city Philly that I'm still in

Lord willin' soon we'll start building up and filling

In the gaps between spiritual generations from our past and our children

We need real women on duty

Yeah, she's a cutie but her outer frame is eclipsed by inner beauty

Imagine that - a beauty pageant that's not based on a pretty face or thong

And where my fellas at?

All my zealous cats who shed a tear over the fact that Hell is packed

Cats that's jealous at the way the Lord is treated

Who see the Lord getting cheated on and they get heated

That's Elijah for you

That's the Bible for you

We gon' take the streets, that's revival for you

Tell 'em reverse that -  run that verse back

Picture the city of brotherly love with no thugs

What if the big apple wasn't a rotten one

And cats were following the only begotten Son?

What if the 5th Ward

Had the light of Christ shinning in side of it and wasn't dark as a Sith Lord?

And New Jerus. was switched up

And started looking more like the New Jerus of Scripture?

So 'til that new Heaven and Earth comes down

Let's show 'em how we represent Heaven on Earth now



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