When They Start... That 1997 Uptop Shit

[Verse 1] I feel as though I'm ancient Transversing through stages Trying to grasp the gravity of life shielding you from storms facing But being a perceptive child it’s time to knowledge truth For you represent the base of the tree I symbolize the root In a world of smokescreens we impact everything But often left powerless to control So as you embark on your journey away remember the voyage home to your birth village Where we long abandoned our wisdom To navigate the treacherous path from earth ending or quell the anger and resentments toward our women From the highest state of consciousness we fell into a diabolical game of life that's rigged from the beginning Where few men who wanted change didn’t have the power and those who had the power to change the situation didn’t Seeing the unseen The story of an unknown generational being Your pops is a production of environmental misery Yet seeking the truth is every intelligent man's responsibility To pass down the foundation of guidance 'cuz yours is a stolen legacy Where we teach strength to those who lost their will [Scratched sample] When we start the revolution all they'll probably do is squeal Start the revolution [Chorus] A lot of these thugs is ostriches who quick to bury their head than deal Jah willing I’ll be there to consult you when you find yourself alone on the battlefield [Scratched sample] Niggas know the deal When we start the revolution all they'll probably do is squeal [Verse 2] How do I begin this history lesson How do I teach my seed the government considers him opposition Targeted with entrapment for slave labor in a prison If they consider him a threat Lord knows they try to kill him But he must know about Tuskegee syphilis injections and how scientists turn vaccine into bio-weapons I'm out here trying to make sense of the time When you much too young to know the definition of genocide or how they lied about thirty million people on the continent of Africa getting aids from a monkey bite We dealing with statistics the size of the entire US black population Every man woman and child killed [Scratched sample] When we start the revolution all they'll probably do is squeal Start the revolution They sleepwalkers They sleepwalking We call 'em sleepwalkers [Verse 3] The greatest killing machine ever of all time was a silent weapon When it was applied gradually people learned to tolerate and adjust to its presence A killing machine so perfect at first they couldn’t intellectualize it therefore they were afraid to ask any questions But understand this: Jah makes no perfect weapons You will no longer be able to control us through suppression The poor are getting hungry and our ribs are showing What was seemingly impossible to move mountains is now possible to remove mountains with high explosives I’ll turn your NWO into a rubble pile Lord please forgive me for as much heat as I've been through for raising a warrior child