(Treach)

One steps down the path of poverty most know the route

not a pot to piss in or a door to throw it out

All I hear, these days, we say, she say, we say, anyway

He grows, she grows, we grow, listen negro (listen)

I die, you die, few die, who rob, its do or die

You fry, I fry, new play, new day, new God

Tell me, what's the sense of this?

Tell me before they gotta jail me and mail me

Had to mention it

You've never been to the ghetto till you had to enter this

Some plans, one chance, hold heat, hold head, hold theirs (hold ya head)

Peep rules, we proof, meet troops, speak truth, teach youth (teach the youth)

No crews, who's who? New day, new rules, do you:

Break bread, wake heads, check heads, half-a-head for steak feds? (check 'em)

They'll lock your body, even gotti

Grab your shotties for an illuminati (ready)

They'll lock your body as gotti

Grab your shotties it's an illuminati



(Chorus: Phiness)

Open your eyes up, people can't you see?

It's gettin' harder by the day for you and me

All my life I've seen so much misery

Can there be a better place for you and me?



(VinRock)

Why, everytime you try to show a nigga love they shit on you?

Fuck I'm suppose to do?

Why, everytime a brother comin' up some pray ya through?

That's what success'll do

Cause I'm a hard workin' black man

In my face stab in my back man

Rob and steal they wanna kill me black man

Tell me now what the deal is black man

Don't ya know the powers in our hand?

Cause we shine we end up six feet inland

When we could build one nation

And it's comprised of all persuasion

African, Latin caught cagin', Asian

New World Order, Hip-Hop Nation

Then we can turn hate to love

like Malcolm and Martin tripped up, open up your eyes



(Chorus: Phiness)

Open your eyes up, people can't you see?

It's gettin' harder by the day for you and me

All my life I've seen so much misery

Can there be a better place for you and me?



(Phiness)

Here today, gone tomorrow

Live then lay, here tomorrow



(Treach)

Tell me, what's the sense of this?

Tell me before they gotta jail me and mail me

Had to mention it

You've never been to the ghetto till you had to enter this

What's the sense of this?

Tell me before they gotta jail me and mail me

Had to mention it

You've never been to the ghetto till you had to enter this



(Chorus: Phiness)

Open your eyes up, people can't you see?

It's gettin' harder by the day for you and me

All my life I've seen so much misery

Can there be a better place for you and me?



(Treach)

Feel me, the end of the century

Feel me, they want us in wakes and penitentiaries (open your eyes)

That's how the envy be

Now they got it, we our own enemies

Feel me, the end of the century

Feel me, they want us in wakes and penitentiaries (open your eyes)

That's how the envy be

Now they got us, we our own enemies