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Public Lyrics by Running in the Dark

2019

[Verse 1: Z Daddy Ca$h]
Underfunded but we overcame
And we won’t stop till y’all know the name
Under the gun cuz we procrastinate
And we got guns up and down our hallways
Always causing trouble never living in a bubble
Cuz I understand the struggle of public school
But there was a lot of laughter too a lot of rapture
And we don’t get captured when we run the jewels
Had some teachers that were tools but a lot that I respect too
They taught me how use the tools of my mind
But if they preaching rules then what the fuck did they expect to
Find that I didn’t do the work that was assigned
Just to keep me busy but I was too busy getting litty
Tearing up the city writing lyrics that were witty
Was a nihilist didn’t care about anything
Just annihilate the track run it back then we begin again
[Verse 2: Jay +]
Waking up in the moaning, all I can do is go through the motions
Senioritis on a Monday morning, the stench is potent, now I'm zoning
Out of my mind on a rollercoaster can't really say where my head is going
I'm probably in my favorite teachers room because that busy work is
Boringgggg
Myself with the stats and probabilities
Wasn't being tested on my mental agility
Sleep deprived of my mental stability
Wasn't performing to the best of my
Abilities
Metal detectors to make schools safer?
Too tired to sign my name on the
Paper
Intellect based on Grade Point Averages
Number of depressed students
Check what the average is
You got the right to stay home if you belligerent
Institution solving ignorance with ignorance
Be a scholar, raise them dollars cause yo family poor
Johnny so tired Johnny don't wanna go
To school no more
That's that blackballing, chances that we never giving
That's that red lining, negro people, how we living
That's that red leaking, why is Trevon bathing in it
Locked up us for how long, I can't even count the digits
[Verse 3: Tsira]
Think I got too much time on my hands
But I’m spitting all these rhymes so I must be the man
Straight into the fire, I ain’t ever touch the pan
Shocking you in ways only a bang baby can
Verses flow nice, drink it up like a slurpee
Pick up on the beat and put it down like a burpee
Putting in work like pudding in desert
Drop another hot verse, well I guess it couldn’t hurt
Not the first, and certainly not the last
I’m coming with the flames, you ain’t even gotta ask
Sample in the back is a blast from the past
Way back like the bad kids up in class
Mischievous, never showing interest up in the syllabus
Driven to wickedness due to limitless stimulus
That’s what the district will tell you they think it is
Boredom’s a disorder? Nigga that’s just ridiculous
Oversimplified, generalized, cognition genocide
Wanna keep it up so our minds will be gentrified
Black out till the next generation tap out
They talk about our schools like we learn up in a crack house
Pack us in tight, be surprised when we act out
Want our hands untied, call that a handout
Mad when we kneel cause we’re not supposed to stand out
But turn on some rap and it’s cool to be black now?
Right? Better stay out of my sight
Token black friend, I could never be the type
Made it this far never really been in fights
Keep playing round with me then I just might
Berries getting blacker, this generation’s ripe
Taking back the culture that the vultures tried to swipe
Bouta take flight, going high as a kite
Curtains close, lights out, I’m done for the night
[Outro: TJ]
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Running in the Dark

Running in the Dark

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