Lyrics
Ways of the World –All lyrics by Ice-C (C. Manetta)
-Verse 1-
The ways of the world, now a days, have changed from yesterday/
Tuff times have arrived, chicks stripping just 2 make ends meet/
Snippers that will shoot u in your head, make u fall 2 your feet/
Just 2 get by/
Cats that slang crack, shit makes u feel good, and gets u high/
But they only do it, just 2 get by/
Putting there life at risk, cud end up in jail/
Facing 20 plus years, with out probation or bail/
The shit we do now a days, 2 make life a lil sweeter/
We living life great, ice-c wrists and ice-necks/
But then other cats wear vests 2 protect there chests and carry and 9 milameter/
Kids growing up in the projects scared shit 2 leave there home/
Cuz in those places, and anytime, someone cud easily put u 2 the chrome/
Sitting in your room in the dead of night/
Hoping 2 make it out the ghetto, and outta that bully’s site/
Cuz even In school, kids be straped with gats/
Watch what the fuck you say/
Cuz if that kid wants your lunch money, ya ass betta pay/
Cuz he cud just wip out the chrome, and in a second your gone/
Ya’ll got 2 understand, shit like this happens all a the time/
Just take a look at colombine/
Those kids gave each other, Hitler’s sign - every time - they roled a strike in bowling/
Peers made fun of them, so they pulled out the mack and then a bunch of kids started falling/
How in the fuck cud people let something like this go down/
On that sad day, fucking 14 young ones feel to the grown/
But, fuck I disagree its wut kids hear on songs and on TV,
Violent movies were bein made, since from god knows wen/
But now the government wants 2 take a shot at rap cuz we talk bout’ how it gose on in our town/
FUCK THEM/
Me, and alla the other rappers talk about how its really going on now a days/
I house in broken into every 18 seconds, and some1 is killed every 46 seconds a day/
But soon, maybe no1, will have 2 strip, snipe, slang, or do whatever to get by/
But, this is how it is 4 now, and maybe 4 eva, its just the worlds ways/
Maybe soon enough, well see a better day/
If not in my life, my childs day…….
Ways of the world
Its just the ways of the ways of the world
Ways of the world
Jus the ways of the world
-Verse 2-
Death happenin’ round my block each n everyday/
Like hell 2 watch/
Like 24-7 hearing nothing but shots/
Busting, seein lil ones lose there life/
Get cut up ova thea nike’s by some old cat with a knife/
Kills me inside, people constantly losing site/
Mind fucked up, cant decided wich way is wrong, and wich is rite/
Try 2 lead ya boy in tha rite direction/
But it don’t work, and the heat is cocked/
He fucked up, and now he wont go 2 heaven/
Now a days..world revolves on Violence and dope/
Cats fuck they life up smoking/
Get left broke with out ne hope/
It’s a shame/
The way people make a living in the cocaine game/
And wut about the ones that make it big with the fame/
Life is just as much fucked up 4 them/
Cuz if some1 don’t wanna snipe they ass/
They take way 2 many hits and eventually pass/
And wut about STD’s/ (sexual transmitted diseases)
Sex mite seem FUN...but if u get aids/
Mite as well jus take ya life with a GUN/
Aint saying don’t fuck/
But if u gonna get it on, cova tha shit up/
By the year two thousand twenty, aids gonna go round the world/
And it’ll do it again/
Trillions on toppa billions a trillions gone, by like 3 thousand 10/
Thanx 2 a couple a cats, who fucked with out a condom/
On tha real, im not 2 fond of um/
But for a couple a bucks/
U can have as many fucks/
And save some lives in the process of making love/
No love, with out a glove/
Cuz lives already be lost/
Wen a cat gets a new jacket/
Then its stolen by some motha fuckin faggot/
Who is propbly got money on um neways/
But he has 2 be tuff, and kill the kid for fun/
Wut the fuck, do ya’ll killas really understand wut ya’ll done/
Taking a life, 4 no good reason/
Shit is unbearable….like c
