Why Why Why

Album: Wu-Tang: The Saga Continues (2017)
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  • A mi name Swnkah coming live
    Kingston vibe, rock roots, youth promotion
    Big up RZA, Mathematics, whole Wu-Tang Clan
    A we come fi chant down out babylon

    If I put my fist through the face of a racist
    Smack 'em tasteless
    Would I face three cases in court, locked in places
    Or shackled to a seat of a bus, a hundred of us
    Life in America shouldn't be so tough
    We got western civilization got me fighting for my civil rights
    After fighting scores of war, we still fight for our civil rights
    To be equal citizens with equal opportunity
    Equal chance to advance and uplift our communities
    But instead we getting shot in the head
    Like a black man life ain't worth a loaf of bread
    "Stop or I shoot," you stop, they still shoot
    Fuck, fuck, fuck
    Stomp you out with steel boots

    Oh why, why, why, why, why, why, why
    Oh why, why, why, why, why, why, why
    Oh why, why, why, why, why, why, why
    Oh why, why, why, why, why, why, why

    They trying to distract us from our practice
    And shackle us up, mentally retract us backwards
    Attack us like the prophet on the way to Damascus
    It's like we huddle up, had control of the ball, let 'em sack us
    Now they overtax us as if they want to collapse us
    Don't be diluted by this foolishness
    30 years old man still want nothing do with this
    Try to find career and a beer on the weekend
    And a freak he could take to the crib on the weekend
    Suv, XM, heat, only plays the Weeknd
    Only wanna fuck you 5AM with no tweeting
    20-25 should be working but she's twerking
    Nobodies tripping she could make money from stripping
    And I'm sitting in the back sipping my 'yac
    Can't help but thinking that "What does her father think of that?"
    Probably because I got a daughter
    I heard Money Mayweather, he makes it rain without water
    He dropped 50 G's at a strip club near the border
    A dozen women crawling on all fours up
    Woah hey, you should've saw her
    You should've that money to a college campus
    But then again I guess momma needed some Pampers haha
    But from my view, these wizards need some pampering
    Not a mere mix dilutin' and tampering with the essence
    Leavin' em with a lack of substance
    And she wonders why, why, why she can't keep her husband

    Every color, every race
    Every shape, every fade
    All around the nation
    No discrimination
    Peace on we say
    From generation to generation
    Jah, chant down Babylon make dem know seh we nah take it no more
    Straight, make them know RZA, Wu-Tang Clan, take it to them

    It's getting realer
    Streets getting hotter, I could feel it
    Who am I to put a gun to another
    I'm just trying to show love to my brother
    Hands up
    I just pray to God I make it out
    Stop kill di youth dem
    Is my life not enough
    Out of luck
    If it's America we trust they tryin' to knock me down
    And I'm just trying to live it up
    Only one life to live and I ain't trying to give it up

    Oh why, why, why, why, why, why, why
    Oh why, why, why, why, why, why, why
    Oh why, why, why, why, why, why, why
    Oh why, why, why, why, why, why, why Writer/s: Candice Minott, Kuaymiel Bean, Robert F. Diggs, Ronald Maurice Bean
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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