Public Enemy - Escapism(2007)

[00:25.32] Got to get away
[00:28.92] Got to get away from yourself, escapism
[00:31.90] Uh, get away, c'mon
[00:35.19] Uh, got to get away from yourself baby
[00:41.76] Got to get out
[00:42.86] Uh, get out
[00:45.14] Is the groove good to you like when you lose your thing
[00:47.71] Forgetting grits is grocery and eggs is poultry
[00:51.17] Making a living against those making a killing
[00:53.01] Super black man got your back and is back in the building
[00:56.52] If the prison is that skin you in
[00:58.24] And your cell is sitting up inside your skull
[01:01.34] They say you can't get away from your damn self
[01:03.51] When your earth is heaven and your world be hell
[01:06.65] Check your head because Armageddon's at the foot of your bed
[01:10.18] You ain't heard a word I said
[01:11.54] Forget them slacks I'm that throwback
[01:13.16] That threw that throwback
[01:14.35] Back on the racks to get my mind back
[01:17.09] Oh say, can you see
[01:17.92] I get back its still black and white, uh, like an old TV
[01:22.16] In lyin' color brother
[01:23.67] Gots to getaway to the other side, uh
[01:26.25] Talk about escapism
[01:28.36] Got to c'mon now
[01:33.50] Escapism
[01:34.67] Gotta get away
[01:36.13] Uh, talk about?
[01:38.60] Uh, got to get out of myself baby
[01:45.07] There must be some kind of way up out of here
[01:48.35] You see, I never was too good off the top of my head
[01:51.12] 'Cause I want y'all to know exactly what I said
[01:53.90] This so-called war in Iraq, over a thousand dead
[01:56.85] That's ten a week, even as I speak
[01:59.21] Now thirty-three percent of black males in jail
[02:01.87] That's fifty-five percent of black students will fail
[02:04.31] They say eighty-five percent of Black folks forgot
[02:07.46] We were slaves once up inside this box
[02:10.18] America got folks' brains on lock
[02:12.39] Forget the connects, some wanna buy what's next
[02:15.27] Wear it like some sign up in that chest
[02:17.20] Y'all should know papa don't take no mess
[02:20.43] If you think your past is irrelevant
[02:22.31] Don't you know your old soul really pays the goddamn rent?
[02:26.01] That messiah ain't never gonna come
[02:27.28] As long as you thinking freedom is free to being dumb (boy)
[02:33.10] C'mon, escapism
[02:39.55] C'mon now
[02:44.75] Escapism
[02:49.55] There must be some kind of way up out of here
[02:53.65] C'mon now
[02:58.18] Escapism, gotta get away
[03:00.62] Uh, talk about?
[03:03.02] Uh, got to get out of myself
[03:06.93] Baby, talk about?
[03:08.48] Oh wait
[03:09.43] There must be some kind of way up out of here
[03:12.70] You say that soul is back so flip them hits back
[03:15.52] Damn the fashion (I wanna know where's the passion)
[03:18.43] Thinking we came a long way baby
[03:20.88] Saying poor Michael's psycho and Prince, he's crazy
[03:23.97] But what has Bob Mick Sir Paul done for you lately?
[03:26.35] (How they maintain on your brain seems to escape me)
[03:29.09] Heard some ghetto cats don't like metal rap
[03:31.53] (Hear it and fear it and some think it's all wack)
[03:33.97] They don't even know (that the blues is black)
[03:36.16] And when I rap, I go back to the roots where I be at
[03:39.55] Not some thirty year old who don't know facts
[03:42.03] (Who's wild saying things like some juvenile)
[03:44.85] Remember two million black folks in the penile
[03:47.74] Got a world of white folks thinking it's style
[03:50.10] Think I'm hating 'cause you lackin' the information
[03:52.76] 'Cause we the FBI still got on file
[03:55.67] Escapism c'mon now
[03:59.91] Gotta get away
[04:01.88] Gotta get out of myself, uh
[04:04.05] C'mon, yeah
[04:06.21] Uh, c'mon now
[04:08.32]
[04:27.73] Escapism
[04:29.71] Gotta get out of myself baby, baby
[04:34.87] Gotta get out of myself baby
[04:38.49] (Here it comes)
[04:43.59] (Here it comes)
[04:47.19] But the one here that's real hot right now is Public Enemy
[04:50.83] Why don't we play a little taste of it, why not?
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