Black gun powder, that's my ink is
push a pen for hours, cap a delinquent
this is true power, lives change drastically
based on the words of the author of a masterpiece
property and infantry, move by the pen hand
parents givin infants up out the play pen
dollar signs keep rising with inflation
got my neighbor comin home from a foreign land
you look at me, I look at you
you took a note, I took one too
this currency will barely do
cuz promises, they rarely do
written contracts, I'll reject, mic check 1,2
manipulate with sex and drugs, my culture says Fuck You
it's all in the fine print, read between the lines shit
got you trapped in a deal you ain't fine with
and you ain't sign shit,
but this a social contract of alliance
written in silence

I see another child risin
and he's gonna start ridin
based on the writin
so it's back to the bases
back to the bases

Find your addictions, write your presciptions
put it down in ink to erase your convictions
legality's a system, morality's the victim
think with you mind, not your eyes, not your eyes
the world is a prism, truth takes shapes
it's true that some in prison, off a false case
life is being written, in the ink of sweat and tears
blood and bodies disappeared, couple buddies dead for years
all because we use our ears, obeying what we hear
followin chain of command because we live in fear
so what's happenin here, is the wool's over ya eyes
if the words written in ink, it could never be lies, right?
the enterprise of man is built on ink
all the words in your head, they control what you think
your vocabulary is your possibility of thought
so they usin double talk to make you what you not,
god damn

I see another child risin
and he's gonna start ridin
based on the writin
so it's back to the bases
back to the bases

murder murder, kill kill, imagery in pop culture
kids are on the verge still, adding to the rape culture
what you let em learn will build or create soldiers
that's why I stay positive, fuck the hate vultures
livin on a borrowed clock, until the sorrow stops,
I'ma be good, even if tomorrow's not
the weather's very hot, but we gotta keep our cool
which is hard to do, especially if you a fool
so I'm takin y'all to school, to talk what I'ma do
to make it possible, to walk and follow through
the chalk around the youth, should be a math equation
but now the homework turned into a home invasion
based on a situation, people been placed in
that leads to confrontation, and lives wastin
and that's a socio-economic engagement
that goes back to the slave ships
designed by the pen man