Melle Mel - Beat Street Breakdown lyrics

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Beat Street Breakdown<br />

Beat Street the King of the Beat<br />

They see ya Rockin' That Beat from across the Street<br />

Beat Street is a Lesson Too, Because You Can't Let The Streets Beat You<br />

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Well A Picture Can Express A Thousand Words And Describe All the Beauty of Life you Give<br />

And if The Whole World was Yours To Do over I know You'd Paint A Better Place To live<br />

Where the Colors would Swirl and the Boys and Girls Can grow in Peace and Harmony<br />

And where Murals Stand on walls so Grand As far as the Eye Are Able to see<br />

I never Knew Art 'Til I Saw Your Face And There'll never be one to take your place<br />

Cause Each Time you Touch The Spay paint Can Michelangleo's Soul Control's your Hand<br />

Then Serenades of Blue and Red and the Beauty of the Rainbow Fills Your Head<br />

Kershendo Colors Play in tune Man Why O'why'd You Have To Die so Soon<br />

Ashes to Ashes and Dust To Dust Where The Good Die Young is All Thy Must<br />

Cause As Life must Live Death Must Die and the Tears shall fall from the Livin' Eye<br />

The Tear Drops fall for the state of mind of the beautiful Lady that you left Behind<br />

In Love and Alone but now you're dead and she still can't get you out of her Head<br />

More tears fall for all you've done Tryin' to be a good father to your only Son<br />

But Now who's gonna make sure he's fed put a shirt on his back and a roof over head<br />

Tell me who's gonna Dream the Impossible Dream of the Beautiful cities and the Islands Genes (?)<br />

When your Works of Art Brought into being All that The Ghetto Stopped you from seein'<br />

Bums on the Side Walk, Garbage in the Street, Abandon Buildings, Bricks and concrete<br />

The Ladies on the Corner Sellin' that Body and Everybody wants a part in that party<br />

I'm Hangin' Out Tough, Rockin' Late at Night, Runnin' Wild in the town of the Neon Light<br />

You Either play some ball or stand in the Hall, You gotta make somethin' out of Nothin' at All<br />

I'm sittin' in the classroom learnin' the rules and it say you can't do Graffiti in School<br />

They can't be Wrong in the Hollowed Hall so my Notebook turned into a big Wall<br />

The heart of A lion and The Courage of Three and the mind of a man mush wiser than Me<br />

And The soul of a brother who won't come Back, Who Died in My Arms on the railroad Tracks<br />

Cause I'm Caught in The rat race, lookin' for for my own space, There's gotta be a better place for you and Me<br />

There's pie in the Sky and Eye for an Eye, Some people gotta die just to be Free<br />

Search for Justice and what do you find, You find Just Us on the Unemployment Line<br />

You find Just Us Sweatin' From Dawn to Dusk, There's no Justice, There's Just Us! <br />

Still Life Urban Masterpiece, your Trademark was written on Trains and Walls<br />

A Million Dollar gift only god Relief And yet you got Killed for nothin' at All<br />

So After this there'll be No More Hard Time, No more bad time and no more pain<br />

No more chump change, none of that Bull, just Movies, Museums, and The Hall of Fame<br />

So All You Hip Hops get on Up and Take it to the Top where We Belong<br />

Cause The Age of the Beat street Wave is here, everybody Lets sing along, now, c'mon and say Ho (Ho! ) Say Ho (Ho! )<br />

And To let me know I'm rockin' the microphone Everybody say Ramoe (Ramoe! ) Ramoe (Ramoe! )<br />

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A Newspaper Burns in the Sand and the headlines say "Man, This Story's Mad!"<br />

Extra, Extra, Read all the bad news on the War for Peace that everybody'll Lose<br />

The rise and fall of the last great empire, the sound of the whole caught on fire<br />

The Ruthless Struggle, The Desprate Gamble, the Game that left the whole world in Shambles<br />

The cheat, the lies, the alibis and the foolish atempt to conquer the skies<br />

Lost in space but what is it worth, the president just forgot about earth<br />

Spendin' mutli-billions and maybe even trillions, the cost of weapons ran into zillions<br />

The gold in the street and there's dimonds under feet and the children in africa don't even eat<br />

Flies on their faces they're livin' like mice and the houses even make the ghetto look nice<br />

The water tastes funny it's forever too sunny and they work all month and don't make no money<br />

A fight for power, a Nucier Shower, The People shout out in the Darkest Hour<br />

The Sight's unseen and voices unheard and Finally the bomb get the last word<br />

Christians killed Muslims and Germans killed Jews and everybody's body is Used and Abused<br />

Minds are poisoned and Souls are Polluted, Supierority complexes deep rooted<br />

Liegends are Lisenced and People got Prices, Ego Maniacs control the Self Rightious<br />

Nothin' is Sacred and nothin' is pure, so the Revelation effct is our cure<br />

Hitler and Ceaser, Custard and Reagan, Napoleon, Castro, Musellini and <br />

Gangus Khan and the of Iran, Meant for the Blood of the Weaker Man<br />

The People's in Terror, the Leaders made the error and they can't even look in the mirror<br />

Cause We got to suffer, while things get rougher and that's the reason why we got to get tougher<br />

Learn from the Past, work for the future and don't be a slave to no computer<br />

Cause the Children of Man inherates the land and the future of the world is in your hands<br />

Just Throw your hands in the Air, and Wave'em like you just don't care and if you blieve that you're the future<br />

Scream it out and Say Oh Yeah (Oh Yeah! ) Oh Yeah (Oh Yeah! ) Beat Stre