Mystic Roots - Tenement Yard lyrics
Dreadlocks can't live in a tenement yard I & I can't live in a no tenement yard Jah, penetrate in a tenement yard Dreadlocks can't live in a tenement yard I & I can't live in a no tenement yard Can't I-nitate in a tenement yard Dreadlocks can't live in privacy Cause anything him do, old n***a see Hook: Too much watchy, watchy, watchy Too much sus, sus, sus, sus, sus Dreadlocks can't smoke them pipe in peace Too much Babylon & too much beast Dreadlocks can't penetrate the rent-man Cause all him a do is sell Jah-Jah land Dreadlocks can't live under constant laws Too much Babylon means too many laws I was born twenty years ago today Well at least when I wrote this Holiday: December tre Livin' life out a focus I'm hopin' not to get caught up With a felonization But I grew up in a nation not ready for legalization They tease me with the American dream But wait it gets deep The American dream has gotta be a dream If you believe in it, you sleep Reality ain't nothin' nice You gotta do right Or get caught up by the vice Three strikes = life Trife livin', catch me with some weed and now they give incarceration Yes on felony: job application Got me hatin' these choices struggle minimum wage Increase a little, not enough for me in this day and age How the hell you 'posed to buy a car to drive to school The average job today be payin' five and a few Somethin' in my pocket missin' my one fear $10,000 for tuition, that's one year! I'm not a teen no mo'; I got my chances to reform They're tryin' to break me down by puttin' narcs up in the dorms People gon do what they gotta do regardless We don't want the law to baby-sit us, we want it to guard us Guard us from the rapists, kidnappers, and thieves Not to incarcerate us strictly for havin' weed My sympathies go out to those set up by a snitch Dreadlocks forever be poor as long as Babylon's rich Chico can't smoke them pipe in peace Too much Babylon and too much beast Chico can't smoke them bongs outside Cause Babylon wanna take you and I for a ride