beat street breakdown
Singer:grandmaster flash and the furious five
you see him rockin that beat from across the street
you can't let the streets beat you
a picture can express a thousand words
to describe all the beauty of life you give
and if the world was yours to do over
i know you'd paint a better place to live
where the colors would swirl
and the boys and girls can grow in peace and harmony
and where murals stand on walls so grand
as far as the eyes are able to see
i never knew art till i saw your face
and there'll never be one to take your place
cause each and every time you touch a spraypaint can
michaelangelo's soul controls your hands
then serenades of blue and red
and the beauty of the rainbow fills your head
crescendo colors playin tunes
man why oh why you'd have to die so soon?
ashes to ashes and dust to dust
where the good die young is all thy must
cause as life must live death must die
and the tears shall fall from the living eye
teardrops fall for the state of mind
of the beautiful lady that you left behind
and she still can't get you out of her head
more tears fall for all you've done
tried to be a good father to your only son
but now who's gonna make sure that he's fed
put a shirt on his back and a roof over head?
tell me who's gonna dream the impossible dream
of the beautiful cities and the islands and streams
when your works of art brought into being
all that the ghetto stopped you from seeing
the ladies on the corner are sellin that body
and everybody wants a part in that party
i'm hangin out tough rockin late at night
runnin wild in the town of the neon lights
you either play some ball or stand in the hall
you gotta make somethin out of nothin at all
i'm sittin in the classroom learnin the rules
and it says you can't do graffiti in school
that can't be wrong in the hallowed hall
so my notebook turned into a big wall
the heart of a lion and the courage of three
and the mind of a man much wiser than me
you're the soul of the brother who won't come back
who died in my arms on the railroad track
cause i'm caught in a rat race lookin for my own space
it gotta be a better place for you and me
there's pie in the sky and a eye for a eye
some people gotta die just to be free
you search for justice and what do you find?
you find just us on the unemployment line
you find just us sweatin from dawn to dusk
still life urban masterpiece
your trademark was written on trains and walls
a million dollar gift only god released
and yet you got killed for nothin at all
so after this there'll be no more hard time
no more bad times and no more pain
museums and the hall of fame
and let's take it to the top where we belong
cause the age of the beat street wave is here
everybody let's sing along
and to let me know i'm rockin the microphone
a newspaper burns in the sand
and the headlines say 'man destroys man'
on the war for peace that everybody would lose
the sound of the whole world caught on fire
the game that left the whole world in shambles
and the foolish attempts to conquer the sky
the president just forgot about earth
spendin multi-billions and maybe even trillions
the cost of weapons ran in the zillions
there's gold in the street and there's diamond under feet
and the children in africa don't even eat
and their houses even make the ghetto look nice
and they work all month and don't make no money
a people shout out in the darkest hour
sights unseen and voices unheard
and finally the bomb gets the last word
christians killed muslims and germans killed jews
and everybody's bodies are used and abused
minds are poisoned and souls are polluted
superiority complex is deep rooted
egomaniacs control the self-righteous
nothin is sacred and nothin is pure
so the revelation of death is our cure
a vietnam lenigrad iwogima
devastation death against the killing machine
and now they can't even look in the mirror
cause we gotta suffer while things get rougher
and that's the reason why we got to get tougher
so learn from the past and work for the future
and don't be a slave to no computer
cause the children of man inherit the land
and the future of the world is in your hands
so just throw your hands in the air
and wave em like you just don't care
and if you believe that you're the future
scream it out and say oh yeah