Shad - The Stone Throwers (Gone in a Blink) lyrics

(Stone Throwers) [Intro] Forced to go toe-to-toe, blow-for-blow In a war zone with only stones to throw Vilified by all sides Villified for small crimes Forced to go toe-to-toe, blow for blow In a war zone with only stones to throw [Chorus] (Goliath) We're gone in a blink (gone in a blink) We're gone in a blink (yeah) We're gone in a blink (gone in a blink) We're gone in a blink Game hasn’t changed, same ol’ monopoly Same couple players own all of the property I ain’t a prop, don’t give no props to me My people still don’t eat properly Think we forgot? We was just property Think we’ll be bought again? Think that they brought them democracy? I think they brought back them poppy seeds My people locked up for chopping That’s hypocrisy We wasn’t thought of We wasn’t brought up and taught we was set up That’s why we get caught up Y’all discarded us Put them bars up Of course we got guards up We’re hard cuz we’re hard up They got them start-ups and Starbucks’ We got a couple of stars till the turn em to stardust They starve us Can’t even drink water Up North with that Flint water All in the sink as they sink farther Kids on the brink Y’all went to Harvard and Stanford Think harder for answers man, think We’re far below standards Don’t tell me anger won’t help us You told me the cancer would shrink We need a shrink We just see boys making bands: N’Sync Open your eyes my fam, we could all be gone in a blink [Chorus] We're gone in a blink (gone in a blink) We're gone in a blink (yeah) We're gone in a blink (gone in a blink) We're gone in a blink Listen Game hasn’t changed, same game of life we play Maybe I’m only one roll of the dice away From a Rolls with some ice and some gold on the license plate We roll our whole life away I think they gamed us Made us be gamers They gamed with the system They made it to play us Gave us controllers But gave no control up The game wasn’t made so we’d make it It’s made up It’s war that they’re waging Just look at these wages they pay us It’s pennies, it pains us They paint us in corners On corners What can we do man, we’re cornered I’m lucky I’m stuck in this booth Stuck here all cooped up People get stuck up for loot Stuck up and boogie ones Stuck us in Juvy They could have stuck up for the youth Stuck up for justice and truth Now people either get loud or they shut up and shoot Give us a shot Don’t shut us out from the group You can shut down the nuke Don’t push our bu*tons It suddenly all could go poof Gone in a blink [Outro] Forced to go toe-to-toe, blow-for-blow In a war zone with only stones to throw Vilified by all sides Vilified for small crimes Forced to go toe-to-toe, blow for blow In a war zone with only stones to throw Goliath