[ar:Cunninlynguists]
[ti:In The City]
[by:]
[00:00.00]In the City - Cunninlynguists/Zion I
[00:18.54]In the city
[00:23.13]It's always been that way
[00:29.49]In the city
[00:34.08]It's always been that way
[00:37.88]In my city is blacks and blocks
[00:39.39]Where avenues and street tops where people
[00:41.98]Struggle to sleep Ahk
[00:43.11]Theres trouble and beef gold teeth rocks get
[00:46.19]Thrown at the higher power but don't reach Pops
[00:49.33]Aint home Mama been long
[00:51.57]Gone away so the children run stray
[00:54.22]Cannibalistic war play
[00:56.10]Its animalistic where I stay
[00:58.27]The devil wan' play
[00:59.55]And too many contestants
[01:01.03]Thats every day
[01:02.26]The level gon stay where it's at
[01:04.63]Stay strapped
[01:05.47]It's the mantra recital it conquers the bible
[01:08.77]By any means see survival
[01:10.91]When friends turn to rivals its liable for
[01:13.59]These confrontations to be homicidal
[01:16.44]A dog hollers back at the sirens
[01:18.81]The pain is so blinding
[01:20.20]Forgot we all diamonds
[01:24.27]In the city
[01:28.65]It's always been that way
[01:34.94]In the city
[01:39.60]It's always been that way
[01:44.78]Ain't nothing uglier ain't nothing prettier
[01:50.96]Corner stores whores
[01:52.74]Drugs galore
[01:53.97]Exploitation's core
[01:55.52]Guns and gore
[01:56.70]I abhor each metropolis between these shores
[01:59.38]And then I see it
[02:00.53]Faith in humanity restored
[02:02.25]An act so selfless that I break out in applause
[02:05.15]Giving so elvish that it must be Santa Clause
[02:07.81]In the city
[02:08.78]Dogs
[02:09.27]Foaming at the jaws
[02:10.53]That's kept the voice of justice in its claws
[02:12.44]Get the gauze
[02:13.09]Because
[02:13.70]It can silence the loudest man
[02:15.75]Whether concrete dirt
[02:17.32]Whether canal or sand
[02:18.74]You can blacktop
[02:19.61]But the backdrop remains
[02:21.25]With the same plots
[02:22.39]Repeating like famed refrains
[02:24.04]The stains
[02:24.74]Stare at ya
[02:25.52]Intensity of character
[02:26.88]Gotta be darwinistic
[02:27.86]Got a propensity to bury ya
[02:29.66]Home of the merriest
[02:30.87]Land of the nefarious
[02:32.16]Tomorrow it's the city that will carry us
[02:34.46]Prepare
[02:37.74]In the city
[02:42.30]It's always been that way
[02:48.36]In the city
[02:53.25]It's always been that way