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[ti:Victim]
[ar:GZA/Genius]
[al:Beneath The Surface]
[by:]
[00:00.000]Victim - GZA/Genius
[00:04.330]Written by：GZA/Genius/Gary Grice/Sulayman Ansari/Kristal Moss
[00:08.665]Just another victim of the
[00:13.525]Victim of the ghetto
[00:19.863]Just another victim
[00:24.741]That's how it goes ooh
[00:31.811]Heavy foot traffic jam the hallway all day
[00:34.937]Adolescence workin' for small pay
[00:37.065]World so little
[00:37.903]He could never leave his block
[00:39.585]His home full of riddle
[00:40.774]So he always need his glock
[00:42.429]He coast with his eye open
[00:44.133]Keep his metal smokin
[00:45.787]Young wasted minds
[00:46.840]Fiendin' on dimes cokin
[00:48.416]Forgot kids quick to break rules
[00:50.142]And known to make fools
[00:51.478]Out of many down the streets be more safe than school
[00:54.219]There's no diploma
[00:55.229]That can break him from the coma
[00:56.999]A bloody war in the country
[00:58.865]The youth hungry
[00:59.854]On the corner
[01:00.821]Hyenas amongst me
[01:02.619]Yabbin' bout the stories
[01:03.958]They be hearin' always swearin
[01:05.610]Can't even spell the sh*t that he be wearin
[01:08.291]Caught up in the silk web of material
[01:10.987]Superficial stains ya brain tissue
[01:12.828]That's the issue
[01:14.191]The young is lost at their own cost dreamin
[01:16.736]Screamin' how we never hold positions
[01:18.611]That's the meanin
[01:19.525]Brothers of murder victims share the same grief
[01:22.342]The elderly shake their head in disbelief
[01:25.084]And no relief came till I aimed
[01:27.468]And blast one shot and left my name
[01:30.325]The GZA
[01:32.927]Just another victim of the
[01:37.750]Victim of the ghetto
[01:44.013]Just another victim
[01:48.989]That's how it goes ooh
[01:55.644]My residence is a city where army veterans smoke rocks
[01:58.988]On torn down blocks
[01:59.982]** spots set out their shops
[02:01.539]And cops watch
[02:02.361]Innocent niggaz roam in flocks
[02:04.129]Romanism in tops
[02:05.303]Papers and knots
[02:06.055]Churches and liquor stores on every corner plot
[02:08.371]To get money not
[02:09.550]Some funny niggaz act like they could pop glocks and those who can't cop
[02:12.550]Sisters givin' up ass a lot
[02:13.974]Brothers givin' up cash a lot
[02:15.380]They be strugglin' to become someone because their parents not
[02:18.220]Just another victim of the ghetto
[02:19.977]Where lost minds settle
[02:21.359]When the devil uncivils society and die free
[02:23.884]With double w followed by JD around the necks
[02:26.896]And wrists the god is now a dog
[02:28.422]The earth is called a b**ch
[02:29.483]And all my people wish to get rich in this wilderness
[02:31.594]To push a lexus
[02:32.542]Ice on everythin' from rings and braclets to the necklaces
[02:35.272]Children molested within these pest infested buildins
[02:37.947]Thieves uneducated in these schools
[02:39.770]Paint on the ceilins
[02:40.732]Peelin' off
[02:41.489]But all I see is lost black babies callin
[02:43.791]Please somebody save me
[02:45.164]Please somebody save me
[02:45.981]Just another victim of the
[02:50.641]Victim of the ghetto
[02:56.903]Just another victim
[03:01.888]That's how it goes ooh
[03:08.267]Just another victim of the
[03:13.070]Victim of the ghetto
[03:19.440]Just another victim
[03:24.304]That's how it goes ooh
[03:30.704]Just another
[03:36.261]Just another
[03:41.166]Victim of the ghetto