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BEOWüLF LYRICS
"Un-Sentimental" (1993)
1. Castaway
2. Up-Lifted
3. Un-Sentimental
4. Victim Of Riches
5. P.O.W. (Pissed Off White Boy)
6. Articles
7. Special One
8. Last Days
9. Hole In My Pocket
10. Said A Prayer
11. Wish Your Life
12. Ain't No Place Like Home
1. Castaway
Maybe you have shot some one
Mayby you have shanked someone
Mybe you have killed someone
Maybe you don’t care
So be it
Just don’t get cast away
So be it
Just don’t get cast away
Maybe you have losts of sex
Never caring who’s next
It’s like trying to get a noose around your neck
Maybe then you’ll care
So be it
Just don’t get cast away
So be it
Don’t get cast away
What you say?
What you say?
What you say?
What you say?
It’s all forgivable
It’s all forgivable
So maybe you have shot some one
Mayby you have shanked someone
Mybe you have killed someone
Maybe you don’t care
So be it
Don’t get cast away
So be it
Don’t get cast away
Cast away
2. Up-Lifted
Uplifted
Uplifted
You don’t want to hear it
You don’t want to hear it
You don’t want to hear it
Someone needs to say it
Someone needs to say it
That someone is me
I used to be on top of the world
I lost control of it
I seen my world fall down
Don’t worry, I won’t preach to you
I’ll show you by the way I live, I live my life
I’ve been uplifted
Uplifted
Caught up in the city
Caught up in the city
Caught up in the city
Feeling like a soldier
Feeling like a soldier
Feeling like a soldier of one
I couldn’t talk to society
I found it easier to fight my way out
Words are so powerful
Punches can win some battles
But words can win a war
When you’ve been uplifted
Uplifted
Don’t you know nothing is impossible?
Don’t you know anything is possible?
Answer the door, answer the door
Answer the door inside your heart
Could it be real, could it be real?
Could it be real, could it be real?
I witnessed hell on earth
I took a part of me and I hid from the world
Pain made me feel unhappy
Affliction to me mean affliction to you
‘Coz we’re living in a world of aggression
Hard not to feel it when it’s all up in your face
Until you’ve been uplifted
Uplifted
I’ve been uplifted
Do unto another
Do unto another
Do unto another
Like you’d want another
Like you’d want another
Like you’d want another
3. Un-Sentimental
You think that you lived a lifetime
But you ain’t lived it at all
You dreamed, dreamed of being someone
Now your dreams are all deceased
You’re
Un-sentimental
Un-sentimental
Un-sentimental
You’re mad at the world
You think that you been forgotten
And you ain’t got nothing to achieve
You try to hide your feelings
But your pain comes out in you
You’re
Un-sentimental
Un-sentimental
Un-sentimental
You’re mad, you’re mad, you’re mad at the world
Terrible way to live
It’s a terrible, terrible way, terrible way
Terrible way to live
4. Victim Of Riches
Everything has been a luxery to you
Nothing has ever been a discomfort to you
You always complain about what you got
Never having to do without
You always put yourself high upon a shelf
But do you really feel good about yourself
You look at life as a festival
But you’re a victim of riches
You got a fistful of pennies in your hand
Can buy more than ordinary people can
Another dollar is just another day
But what if God took it all away?
It ain’t no impossibility
You think you’re immune to poverty
You couldn’t survive the life
Cause you’re a victim of riches
Victim of riches
Victim of riches
Victim of riches
Victim of riches
5. P.O.W. (Pissed Off White Boy)
I get followed in department stores
Old ladies see me coming and they lock their doors
They’re thinking that I’m gonna try and rip them off
But I don’t have the slightest desires at all
Police tell me that I look like sin
They’re checking my arms, there’s nothing but skin
Another cop footprint on my back
Kind of hard for me to say “it was because I was black”
Can’t tell me I discriminate you
You maybe hate me but I don’t hate you
Oppression isn’t limited just to you
Yeah, I’m a white boy and I’m oppressed too
P.O.W.
P.O.W.
Hidden minority
Who’s the minority?
Who gets priority?
You do, no me, I’m a minority
You got a voice, I got a voice
You have spoken, my turn to speak mine
I can see the hate, it’s deep in your eyes
What happened to your kin-folk I can sympathize
The white heathen took an upper hand
But it didn’t make him any better of a man
I can understand your attitude
I never been whipped but neither have you
You’ve been oppressed by ignorant fools
I’m a pissed-off white boy, I been oppressed too
Who’s the minority?
Who gets priority?
You do, no me, I’m a minority
P.O.W.
P.O.W.
Hidden minority
A courageous man once had a drem
He had it cut short by a murderous fiend
Inferiority was taught to me
But in them same white circles I’m minority
Who’s a minority?
Who’s a minority?
Who’s a minority?
It is you, is it me?
Who’s a minority?
It is you, is it me?
M.I.A.
Minority in action
6. Articles
Truth is a fine line
You undermine
I think it’s time that I
That I take you on, I take you on, I take you on
You seem to think life is just a rating
Won’t you write about me
Won’t you write about me in your
Articles, articles
Won’t you write about me
Won’t you write about me in your
Articles, articles
You patronize
Fictional lives
The story lies beneath
The lies that you made up, that you made up, that you make up
I say it’s blatant yellow-journalism
You can build up a life
You can tear down a life
You can build up a life
You can tear down a life in your
Articles, articles
You can build up a life
You can tear down a life
You can build up a life
You can tear down a life in your
Articles, articles
Articles, articles
We’re being robbed by the media
We’re being lied to by media
We’re being hand fed by media
We’re being bitch-slapped by the media
Our freedom’s deterred
Important words
Need to be heard but I said
That it isn’t done, it isn’t done, it isn’t done
I think that you’re a victim of your own ratings
We’re being waxed by the media
Becoming numb to the media
We’re being brainwashed by the media
7. Special One
When I hunger
Girl you feed me
When I’m thirsty
Girl you water me
If I’m bad to you
You are good to me
Treat you like a queen
That’s good advice to me
You are
You are the special one
If I stare at you
I beg your pardon
It’s cause you’re my private garden
If I stay here
I may pick a rose
I just may pick a dozen of those
You are
You are that special one
People don’t see
The things I see
I’d like your twins pressed up on me
I long for the moments that we join together passionately
Cause you are
You are that special one
You are that special one
You are that special one
You are that special one
You are that special one
8. Last Days
I took a look at the world today
Seemed like the world is in decay
I guess it’s true what the prophets say
Looks like some people are gonna pay
Does it blow your mind?
Do you shake inside?
Is it time?
Could these be the last days?
These be the last days?
I seen the starving on T.V.
I felt bad so I sent money
A memory bothers me still
Diseases doctors cannot heal
Do you want to know?
Where you gonna go?
Or no?
Could these be the last days?
These be the last days?
I seen the news about the war
I also heard that there would be more
A friend of mine plays in the dark
I hope he doesn’t get the mark
Not knowing when is the most frightening part of all
Although the warnings mark the season
Soon will be time for all to go
Don’t want to hear you have to go
Why aren’t you sad?
Why don’t you grieve?
Hey I’m O.K., I’m ready to leave
The sights you seee are just a sign
We’re getting closer to the end of time
Does it blow your mind?
Do you shake inside?
Is it time?
These are the last days
These are the last days
9. Hole In My Pocket
I just got taken in
By the police
And I ain’t got the bail
I’ll have to go along
Cause I can’t make the bond
So I’ll just sit in jail
Got a hole, endless hole
Got a hole in my pocket
Got a hole in my pocket
I may be poor but I’m happy
Love for your paper god
Expecting an applaud
You won’t get one from me
I may not have a lot
But what I have got
Is worth more than your money
Got a hole, endless hole
Got a hole in my pocket
Got a hole in my pocket
I may be poor but I’m happy
Everyday I laugh
Tell me, can you say that?
Everyday I smile
Tell me, can you say that?
You take care of your kind
You pay no never mind
To anybody
Hey, how about the ones
Who kick down all the funds
So you can live it up
Did your rubber check bounce hard?
There now baby, just put it on your gold card
You’re funny caught up in your money
I ain’t got the problem and I never will
And if I came across a dollar, how I’d like to spend it
But I couldn’t spend it, I wouldn’t know how
But I bet you do, of course you do
I don’t really need to
Want to know why?
Hear why
Because I can laugh
Tell me, can you say that?
Because I can smile
Tell me, can you say that?
Get with it
You may be full of rain
But no way you can possibly rain on my parade
10. Said A Prayer
I remember the days
Of getting drunk in our ally
Nothing to our name
But an empty bottle
Living was easy
I never took life serious
Until he unfolded a secret
That I’ll remember forever
He said, “If I shut my eyes for good, say a prayer for me”
He said, “If I shut my eyes for good, say a prayer for me”
He must have been under pressure
Cause I can feel him reaching out
Through the windows of his soul
I had no time to act
Only time to roll
The sun was setting
My home-boy said, “Let’s take a ride”
“Go have some fun with a gun”
But to my surprise another lowrider down the street
Got involved in the shooting
A single shot to the head
Sent my home-boy to his early grave
Let me say a prayer for you
Before you shut your eyes for good
Let me say a prayer for you
He’s fighting it, trying to stay alive
He’s feeling the pain of a bullet wound
He’s bleeding, he’s needing the help of someone
He’s fading, I know, God is waiting
As I looked into his closing eyes
I said a prayer
Jehovah Rafa
11. Wish Your Life
Wish your life
Wish your life
Wish your life
Don’t wish your life away
You say you’re wishing you’re 21
You say you’re wishing you had all the fun
When you reach it you will see
You’ll be wishing you were 17
You say you wish you had a different look
And had your fake figure in a glamour book
You say you wish you had a bigger chest
But then you’d look just like the rest
Don’t wish your life
Wish your life
Don’t wish your life
Don’t wish your life away
You say you wish you had a fancy ride
And your partner tells you that there’s one outside
It drives pretty but it ain’t for sale
Now you’re wishing that you weren’t in jail
You say you’re wishing maybe I were dead
And that you put a tiny bullet in my head
You say you’re wishing that you had a gun
That gun will wind you up in San Quentin
Don’t wish your life
Wish your life
Don’t wish your life
Don’t wish your life away
Wish your life
Wish your life
Wish your life
Don’t wish your life away
Win some, lose some
Wish your life
Wish your life
Wish your life
Don’t wish your life away
You say the grass is always green
But the grass ain’t always what it seems
One’s loss is another’s gain
Life’s all one in the same
Don’t wish your life
Wish your life
Don’t wish your life
Wish your life
Wish your life
Wish your life
Don’t wish your life away
12. Ain't No Place Like Home
There ain’t no other place
Ain’t no place
Ain’t no place like home
There ain’t no other place
Ain’t no place
Ain’t no place like home
So what are you running from?
You can’t abide by their demands
So you took your life in your own hands
No one now to answer to
No one now to care for you
Turned your life into a mess
To survive you sell your flesh
Find yourself upon your knees
Infected with social disease
You reached the point where you can’t take no more
The abuse is sex and physical
It’s time to run, but not away
It’s time to run to a higher place
Life in the streets of fear
Ain’t no place to hide in here
Hard headed youngin’ fool
Best know what you’re getting in to
Life’s hard, still there
Ain’t no place
Ain’t no place like home
There ain’t no other place
Ain’t no place
Ain’t no place like home
So what are you running from?
Ain’t no place
Ain’t no place like home
There ain’t no other place
Ain’t no place
Ain’t no place like home
So what are you running from?
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