One Day As A Lion Lyrics

One Day As A Lion lyrics

Blood soaked earth that you call home

close your eyes but don't sleep

we comin' like peoples army

for the people who can't eat

who work
with no sleep

for the child 

with no shoes on their feet

a
generation who flash heat

who role up on the banks 

for their cash
see

you're the criminal? 

you got the nerve to ask me

tear
mics till my voice get raspy

faced flame for five centuries

and if
LA were Baghdad we'd be Iraqi

with our straps in the backseat

next
to a general tied up 

with shit in his khakis

best leave my mic
alone I'm full grown

and I'm off to the green zone



after
dark my city's a fuse

after dark my city's a fuse

one day I say
today we live as a lion



blood soaked earth that you call home



I heard this cat got life in the pen

crossing sand in the back
of a truck bed

twelve deep heard sirens and lights red

was smacked
on his dome with the club of 

a white fed

no food no water no
rights read

he came north to keep his seeds 

and his wife fed

in the middle of the darkest night bled

stepped to the law and said

you a minuteman wait a minute man

talk like that might limit your life
span



after dark my city's a fuse

one day i say today we live
as a lion

and when our cubs grow 

we'll show you what war is good
for