In The City

[Hook] In the city It's always been that way [Verse 1: Zumbi] In my city is blacks and blocks With avenues and street tops Where people struggle to sleep, Ahk There's trouble and beef, gold teeth, rocks Get thrown at the higher power, but don't reach, pops Ain't home, momma been long gone away So the children run stray Cannibalistic war play, it's animalistic where I stay The devil wan' play And, too many contestants That's ever day The level gon' stay where it's at, stay strapped It's the mantra recital, it conquers the Bible By any means, see survival When friends turn to rivals it's liable For these confrontations to be homicidal A dog hollers back at the sirens The pain is so blinding Forgot we all diamonds [Hook] [Verse 2: Deacon the Villain] Ain't nothing uglier, ain't nothing prettier Than corner stores, whores, drugs galore Exploitations core, guns and gore I abhor each metropolis between these shores And then I see it, faith in humanity restored An act so selfless that I break out in applause Giving so elvish that it must be Santa Claus In the city, dogs, foaming at the jaws That's kept the voice of justice in its claws, get the gauze Because it can silence the loudest man Whether concrete, dirt, whether canal or sand You can black top, but the back drop remains With the same plots repeating like famed refrains The stains stare at ya Intensity of character Gotta be Darwinistic, Got a propensity to bury ya Home of the merriest Land of the nefarious Tomorrow is the city that will carry us, prepare [Hook]