Soul in the Hole movie - A Child Is Born lyrics

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Song by Brand Nubian<br /><br>

[Lord Jamar - interpolation of Grandmaster Flash's "The Message"]<br>

A child is born with no state of mind<br>

Blind to the ways of mankind<br>

God is smiling on you but He's frowning too<br>

Because only God knows what you'll go through, uhh<br>

A child is born with no state of mind<br>

Blind to the ways of mankind<br>

God is smiling on you but He's frowning too<br>

<br>

[Sadat X]<br>

He grew up in an instant, the fourth of seven children<br>

The oldest male on the block was half and half<br>

Brown stones to neck bones, crack jonez to tones<br>

Where young girls spread out and drop seeds like they're farmers<br>

They're old as their momma's, the same age as their aunt<br>

and the neighbourhood drunk men<br>

and that lady with the dreaded disease is like hard to please<br>

And the house of ill fate with the metal gate<br>

Keep the thin people cracked out like munchkin monks<br>

The ole man with the fruit stand is on his man<br>

His hand, his ole heart just can't stand<br>

the CPR as they load him in the back of a car<br>

I'm on a world tour to help free the poor<br>

From the local drug cats to kids in front of the store<br>

Number runners, gangbangers and the big money spenders<br>

Reality check rings as we descend from the king<br>

<br>

[Grand Puba]<br>

Now a child is born with no state of mind<br>

Blind to the ways of mankind<br>

God is smiling on you but He's frowning too<br>

Because only God knows what you'll go through<br>

A child is born with no state of mind<br>

Blind to the ways of mankind<br>

God is smiling on you but He's frowning too<br>

Because only God knows....<br>

<br>

[Lord Jamar]<br>

The home's filled with horror in my horoscope<br>

Tomorrow I could be broke, this ain't a joke<br>

I'm twenty dollars away from bein dead ass<br>

I'm bout to spend half on a bag to get my head blast<br>

Last week I lost to justice cypher born<br>

and spawned a riff with my wiz<br>

now she dead with my kids<br>

I live by the subway, niggas push drugs in my hallway<br>

All day everyday tryin to get the pay<br>

And I be tryin ta find a better way<br>

You see, when you're poor then you're forced to adore to raw play<br>

Survival be a forte, lookin forward to-a robble up your food stamps<br>

Projects' like boot camps<br>

wit generals cookin chemical warfare<br>

Ki's to a mayor, I ain't seen ya ass in four years<br>

The law bears down on anybody that's brown<br>

My complexion puts me in the direction of the section 8<br>

Rejection seems to be my fate<br>

As a kid, don't wanna ship my momma, always said I had to wait<br>

And it's been drama up to date<br>

Enough to traumatise people's lives and the eyes they try to fixate<br>

<br>

[Sadat X]<br>

A child is born with no state of mind<br>

Blind to the ways of mankind<br>

God is smiling on you but He's frowning too<br>

Because only God knows what you'll go through<br>

A child is born with no state of mind<br>

Blind to the ways of mankind<br>

God is smiling on you but He's frowning too<br>

Because...<br>

<br>

[Grand Puba]<br>

Born into existance with some resistance<br>

A struggle comin out my ol' earth's womb<br>

It was little past noon, three months before June<br>

I had a feelin I was headed toward the land of doom<br>

I came out and the doctor got ready to smack<br>

I grabbed the 'bilical cord and tried to pull myself back<br>

but it was too late for that cos in fact<br>

I'll slit the sack so I gotta maintain where I'm at<br>

Now I'm here breathin this diff'rent kind of air<br>

Poverty bound, headed for the welfare<br>

Drug-infested, rat-infested, people drownin in sorrow at neighbourhood bars<br>

Roaches bigger than my hot wheel cars<br>

Dope fiends with swollen arms lookin like rotten wood<br>

turn to crack monsters up and down the neighbourhood<br>

Liquor store business soar as the crowd pour<br>

or thru the corridors, echoin off the project walls<br>

That's why the Gods say<br>

<br>

[Lord Jamar]<br>

A child is born with no state of mind<br>

Blind to the ways of mankind<br>

God is smiling on you but He's frowning too<br>

Because only God knows what you'll go through, uhh<br>

A child is born with no state of mind<br>

Blind to the ways of mankind<br>

God is smiling on you but He's frowning too<br>

Because only God knows what you'll go through, uhh<br>

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