Rakim - Teach the Children lyrics

[Verse 1] No more time to pa** time cause these are the last rhymes Cause we're living in the last times They wanna go to war, more wars to come But most of us fight more wars than one Discrimination in the racial nation While they destroy our strong foundation Nature's balance is way off balance They tip the scale, now it's no more silence The hole in the ozone layer's outta control But they wanna fight for more oil and gold Unemployment, I got laid off The streets is the last resorts to get paid off For more, more mint, no dough for rent I gotta shed blood to make a red cent Maybe I should ask the president Somebody get me the president But he don't want to hear it, it's out of the question Cause in my section it's worse than recession So I go to a rich neighborhood and play Robin Hood Take from the bad and give to the good First I go to Bensonhurst, steal a Benz, snatch a purse Pick up my friends, that's when it gets worse Cause I need government and they need government A lot of mint spent, now I gotta pay rent Who makes the most dead presidents in the projects You're gonna get robbed and wrecked I parked up the block to plot on a kid that made a knot Let's get him for all he got I approached him slow like I was a basehead Put the four-fifth to his face and said You see those kids over there with the hoods Walk to 'em real slow and give them the goods First the gun and the dough and crush the jumbos One false move and no one knows Cause I got a silencer to hush the bust And I'm in a rush, so hush the fuss Plus the poison you fed will no longer spread You're good as dead, I'm a fill your head with lead That's when I pushed him into his building To murder him, but I remembered his children [Hook] We gotta teach the children everyday, keep a song Show them the light, teach them right from wrong Make some sense so they can carry on Teach the children We gotta teach the children so that they can sing along Understand the words in this song Can't be done when we're gone, so [Verse 2] Teach the children, save the nation I see the destruction, the situation They're corrupt, and their time's up soon But they'll blow it up and prepare life on the moon Sounds like Total Recall But who gotta spaceship, you get it, we fall So hope for the best and expect the worst The end is near and it's U-N-I verse The one's that interfere with nature Labeled you limited and underrate ya His plans over rule when he separates ya Now it's U-N-I verse, the one that hates ya So we gotta let them know we're hip to the script Change the skit, or we're about to flip Cause we want access to happiness Living the good life and much success Equal opportunity Self awareness and unity Education, the kids need a sculpture Teach them the abacus and their culture And that'll help stop the robbing, raping and k**ing Poison neighborhoods are illing But they import more keys from across seas A drug disease hits the streets with ease So keep on building. cause we gotta keep building Til the answers are filled in And make sure you don't stop till then And if you do, remember the children [Hook]