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Roots - Hurricane lyrics

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Same story, same target, different time<br />

Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the bilnd<br />

Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind<br />

Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind<br />

<br />

Same story, same target, different time<br />

Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the blind<br />

Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind<br />

Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind<br />

<br />

[Black Thought]<br />

Yo, talk about paying the ultimate price<br />

Hurricane been incarcerated all of his life<br />

Started out at like twelve <br />

Trapped in a belly of hell<br />

Grew into a man inside of a cell<br />

Yo, anger just swell up<br />

At a early age that develop<br />

Hot head and now it ain't shit y'all could tell him<br />

They said he's on a road to become a felon<br />

But instead he swung blows that'll spilt your melon<br />

He did his thing and was the king of the ring, undisputed<br />

Started making noise but they tried to mute it<br />

They put him through it<br />

For him to make the system look stupid, [yo]<br />

They rather look you in the face and shoot it<br />

And leave your spot looted [or what]<br />

Or leave your whole life blank futured and caught<br />

When you scream at it and do it<br />

With sweat leaking from the outline of your soluid<br />

Don't understand the point that you at<br />

Or how the hell you came to it?<br />

Flashback to images of that night, out in Patterson<br />

They pulled him over heading home from a gathering<br />

And when they told him the charge it kind of baffled him<br />

Murder in the first for the champ, we on that again?<br />

<br />

Chorus<br />

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Hurricane<br />

Accuse a Hurricane<br />

Ain't change a damned shame<br />

It's life for Hurricane, Hurricane<br />

<br />

[Black Thought]<br />

*overtop of sung chorus*<br />

Forever, imagine your locked down forever <br />

Could y'all stand the weather?<br />

Could you hold it together?<br />

You tell me that you know the pain<br />

Yo, imagine if your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane<br />

Forever, imagine your locked down forever<br />

Could ya'll stand the weather?<br />

You built for that weather?<br />

Yo, know what'm saying?<br />

Know what'm saying?<br />

<br />

[Common]<br />

You gotta fight for what you believe in<br />

Nobody knows the troubles seen<br />

This flick left me wondering<br />

'What can become of kings and young kids?'<br />

Summer dream deferred, incident occured, freedom blurred<br />

A freedom that would only be retrieved again in words, later on<br />

The cops, y'all know what they be on<br />

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A nigga's life is like a field that they play upon, away and gone from<br />

Natural lifer, a soul he had to fight,<br />

Learn it himself, sleep days, stay up half the night<br />

Amongst dead man walking, he got afterlife exercising,<br />

Developing his knack to write<br />

Never leaving his cell, in this world he trapped himself<br />

What he loved on the outside world, detached himself<br />

You know the cards Blacks get dealt by the system<br />

He drew a picture of freedom with many dimensions<br />

This picture proved to be bigger than Black and White<br />

A young soul named Lesra brought him back to life<br />

It's amazing to a man what a book could do<br />

And how certain books seem to look for you<br />

This is the story of a champion's fall and rise<br />

The story left me wiping my eyes<br />

Peace Ru<br />

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<br />

Chorus<br />

<br />

Hurricane<br />

Accuse a Hurricane<br />

Ain't change a damned shame<br />

It's life for Hurricane, Hurricane<br />

<br />

[Black Thought]<br />

*overtop of sung chorus*<br />

Yo, yo, forever, imagine your locked down forever <br />

Could y'all stand the weather?<br />

Could you hold it together?<br />

You tell me that you know the pain<br />

Yo, imagine if your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane<br />

Forever and ever yo, locked down forever<br />

Could you stand the weather?<br />

Yo, yo i can't even explain the pain<br />

Just imagine if your life was like a hurricane<br />

<br />

[Mos Def]<br />

Yes, I am the inescapable, the irresistible,<br />

The unnegotiable, the unchallenged [who dat?]<br />

I am time<br />

I scroll in measurements, control the elements,<br />

I hold the evidence, I tell the story [say what?]<br />

I am time<br />

I know no prejudice, I bare no sentiments<br />

For wealth or settlement, I move forward [who you?]<br />

I am time<br />

You can't recover me, conceal or smuggle me,<br />

Retreat or run from me, crawl up or under me,<br />

You can't do much for me besides serve<br />

Me well and have good dividends returned to you<br />

Or attempt to kill me off and have me murder you<br />

Many have wasted me but now they are facing me,<br />

Treated me unfaithfully and now endure me painfully<br />

Plaintively, I wait to see what history will shape to be,<br />

Who's hearts will never die inside the sake of me<br />

Angel's scribe the page for me,<br />

Keep a full account of all the names for me<br />

And make a special mark for Hurricane who (?) patiently<br />

<br />

Chorus<br />

<br />

Hurricane<br />

Accuse a Hurricane<br />

Ain't change a damned shame<br />

It's life for Hurricane, Hurricane<br />

<br />

[Black Thought]<br />

*overtop of sung chorus*<br />

Yo, yo, a Hurricane forever,<br />

Imagine your locked down forever <br />

Could you stand the weather?<br />

Could you hold it together?<br />

I can't even explain the pain<br />

Imagine if your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane<br />

Forever, imagine your locked down forever and ever, ever<br />

Could you hold it together?<br />

Yo, can't explain the pain with words, know'm saying?<br />

Just imagine if your life was like a hurricane<br />

<br />

[Verse 4]<br />

The clouds clashed and the heaven's gave birth to star<br />

God placed it in a man on the day he was born<br />

Convicted minutes after, a true natural disaster<br />

Framed for manslaughter, the Hurricane Carter rising<br />

From out the south water, like torrential rains<br />

In the ring no opponent escaped unscathed<br />

You can't believe the world we live in's injust<br />

All I see is more proof, there's no place for us<br />

They had my man Carter locked in a cage, like an animal<br />

Drive him to the point where the mind work mechanical<br />

Or works by remote control <br />

It was done to all of us, they tapped directly into our soul<br />

Either it's sing-sing, or it's bars around your mind<br />

There's no where to run, no where to hide<br />

In a six-by-six a guilty man cries<br />

For repentance and lost is what innocence is<br />

<br />

<br />

Same story, same target, different time<br />

Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the bilnd<br />

Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind<br />

Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind<br />

<br />

Same story, same target, different time<br />

Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the blind<br />

Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind<br />

Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind<br />

<br />

<br />

Chorus<br />

<br />

Hurricane<br />

Accuse a Hurricane<br />

Ain't change a damned shame<br />

It's life for Hurricane, Hurricane<br />

<br />

[Black Thought]<br />

*overtop of sung chorus*<br />

Your locked down forever <br />

Could you stand the weather?<br />

Could you hold it together?<br />

I can't even explain the pain, know'm saying?<br />

Your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane<br />

Forever, imagine behind bars forever<br />

Could you stand the weather?<br />

You built for that? Is you cut for that?<br />

Don't be telling me that you know the pain<br />

Your life was like a hurricane, yo<br />

<br />

Same story, same target, different time<br />

Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the bilnd<br />

Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind<br />

Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind<br />

<br />

Same story, same target, different time<br />

Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the blind<br />

Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind<br />

Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind

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