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Grandmaster Flash

Beat Street Breakdown, Raah!<br /> Hip Hop!Beat Street<br /> The king of the beat<br /> You see him rocking that beat from across the street<br /> And Huh Huh!<br /> Beat Street is a lesson too, because you can't let the Streets beat you!Well a picture can express a thousand words to describe all the beauty of life you give<br /> And if the world was yours to do over, I know you'd paint a better place to live<br /> Where the colours 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 eyes are able to see, Ha!<br /> I never knew art til I saw your face and there'll never be one to take your place<br /> 'Cause each and every time you touch the spray paint can<br /> Michelangelo's soul controls your hand<br /> Then serenades of blue and red and the beauty of the rainbow fills your head<br /> Crescendo of colours hang in tune, Man why oh why d'ya have to die so soon?<br /> Ashes to ashes and dust to dust, where the good die young it's all thy must<br /> 'Cause as life must live, death must die and the tear shall fall from the living eye, Huh!<br /> The teardrops 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, Huh!<br /> More tears fall for all you've done, trying to be a good father to your only son<br /> But now who's gonna make sure that he's fed, put a shirt on his back and a roof overhead?<br /> Tell me who's gonna dream the impossible dream of the beautiful cities in the islands genes?<br /> When your works of art brought into being all that the ghetto stopped you from seeing<br /> Bums on the sidewalk, garbage in the streets, abandoned buildings, bricks of concrete<br /> The ladies on the corner are selling their bodies, and everybody wants a part in that party<br /> I'm hanging out tough, rocking late at night, running wild in the town of the neon light<br /> You either play some ball or stand in the hall Huh!<br /> You gotta make something outta nothing at all<br /> I'm sitting in the classroom learning the rules and it says you can't do graffiti in school<br /> They can't be wrong in the hallowed hall, so my notebook turned into a brick wall<br /> The heart of a lion and the courage of three, and the mind of a man much wiser than me<br /> You're the soul of the brother who won't come back<br /> Who died in my arms on the railroad track<br /> 'Cause I'm caught in the rat race, looking for my own space<br /> There's gotta be a better place for you and me<br /> There's pie in the sky, and an eye for an eye<br /> Some people gotta die just to be free<br /> You search for justice and what do you find?<br /> You find just us on the unemployment line<br /> You find just us sweating from dawn to dusk<br /> There's no justice, there's Huh, just us, Ha!<br /> Still life urban masterpiece, your trademark was written on trains and walls<br /> A million dollar gift only God released, and yet you got killed for nothing at all<br /> So after this there'll be no more hard times, no more bad times and no more pain<br /> No more chump change, none of that bull<br /> Just movies, museums and the hall of fame<br /> So all you Hip Hops get on up, and let's take it to the top where we belong<br /> 'Cause the age of the Beat Street wave is here<br /> Everybody let's sing along, now c'mon, say 'Ho!' ('Ho!'), Say 'Ho!' ('Ho!')<br /> And to let me know I'm rocking the microphone everybody say 'Ramo!' ('Ramo!')<br /> 'Ramo!' ('Ramo!')<br /> Raah!A newspaper burns in the sand, and the headlines say 'Man destroys Man!'<br /> Extra! Extra! Read all the bad news on the war for peace that everybody would lose<br /> The rise and fall, the last great empire, the sound of the whole world caught on fire<br /> The ruthless struggle, the desperate gamble<br /> The game that left the whole world in shambles<br /> The cheats, the lies, the alibis<br /> And the foolish attempt to conquer the skies<br /> Lost in space, and what is it worth, huh?<br /> The president just forgot about Earth<br /> Spending multi billions, and maybe even trillions<br /> The cost of weapons ran into zillions<br /> There's gold in the street, and diamonds under feet<br /> And the children in Africa don't even eat<br /> Flies on their faces, they're living like mice<br /> And the houses even make the ghetto look nice, Huh!<br /> The water tastes funny, it's forever too sunny<br /> And they work all month and don't make no money<br /> A fight for power, a nuclear shower<br /> And people shout out in the darkest hour<br /> Of sights unseen and voices unheard<br /> And finally the bomb gets the last word<br /> Christians killed Muslims, and Germans killed Jews<br /> And everybody's bodies are used and abused, Huh!<br /> Minds are poisoned and souls are polluted<br /> Superiority complex is deep rooted<br /> Leeches and lice's, and people got prices<br /> Egomaniacs control the self-righteous<br /> Nothing is sacred and nothing is pure<br /> So the revelation of death is our cure<br /> Hitler and Caesar, Custer and Reagan<br /> Napoleon, Castro, Mussolini and Begin<br /> Ghengis Khan and the Shah of Iran<br /> Mixed with the blood of the weaker man<br /> The peoples in terror, the leaders made the error<br /> And now they can't even look in the mirror<br /> 'Cause we gotta suffer while things get rougher<br /> And that's the reason why we got to get tougher<br /> To learn from the past and work for the future<br /> And don't be a slave to no computer<br /> 'Cause the Children of Man inherits the land<br /> And the future of the world is in your hands<br /> So just throw your hands in the air<br /> And wave 'em like you just don't care<br /> And if you believe that you're the future<br /> Scream it out and say 'Oh yeah!' ('Oh yeah!')<br /> 'Oh yeah!' ('Oh yeah!')<br /> Raah!Lyrics provided by TANCODEhttps://damnlyrics.com/" readonly=""/>