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Peace Is Not The Word To Play Lyrics by Main Source

Breaking Atoms

1991

[Verse 1: Large Professor]
(Peace!)
Piece of what?!
You can't mean P-E-A-C-E
'Cause I've seen people on the streets
Shoot the next man and turn around and say, "Peace!"
But that's leavin' people in pieces
It's not what the meanin' of peace is
To me, it means absence of all confusion
Not the oozin' and bruisin' that we're oh, so accustomed to
Your friend got beef? I'll bust him too!
What a brother from a certain way of life explained to me once.. dunce!
He didn't realize the fact
That he and myself were brothers on the same boat
Now, last month he got hemmed up — hmmph, that's all she wrote!
So I pick up where she left the exclamation, lookin' for an explanation
Little kids think that this is a word
That you use to sound down.... and I frown!
'Cause that's what I was told at 8 years old
And now I'm tryin' to break the mold
So, drop the dominoes!
Because I think it's about time that everyone knows!
[Verse 2: Large Professor]
Peace! But everybody's in terror
We're goin' back to the caveman era
Where people got killed, without the chance to build
Shame how the planet is filled with so many so-called intellects
They can't use a word in its proper context
Needless to say, I'm vexed.... so what's next?!
[Verse 3: Large Professor]
Peace! It's not the word to use
When at the same time, you've got plans to abuse
Folks not on they P's and Q's.... I'll see you in the news!
Somebody screwed up the diction
You might die lookin' for the right definition
'Cause peace nowadays means gun.... or gotta run!
So 30 years from now, we'll wonder how the younger generation got foul!
Look at what we teach 'em today
Peace is not the word to play!
[Outro: Large Professor]
A-yo! Corny or not
We gotta stop sayin' "Peace!" and not meanin' it, you know what I'm sayin'?
Main Source forever, y'all
Peace is not the word to play!
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