Waiting For The World To End Lyrics

Waiting For The World To End lyrics

[Rakim]
Yeah, it's the god Rakim
Word up, I'm blazin this out to all my
comrades
Yanamean? From the slums of New York, to the gutters all over the
world
This is for y'all....
Through my travels I try to take righteous
steps
Because right or left could mean life or death
No matter how trife
it get, my sights is set
But it's twice the threat when the ?nights is
death?
My mental windows refuse to close, they get exposed
To the
neighborhood info where the poison wind blows
A deadly plague spreadin
negativity, viciously
Unto every city be in ghetto misery
Don't let it
get to me, the writer be left to die
But it get mesmerize if it catch your
eye
Shines enormous, from pure revered Kool's and garments
But it's
torment, jealousy drug wars or warring
Tallying, slowly turnin into
barbarians
More scary when the whole boulevard's carryin
Livin in the
world of sin, my ghetto girls and men
Waiting for the world to
end

[Chorus] 2x
"Tryin to paint a perfect picture and excel"
"In
case you didn't know"
"Never movin backwards" [Rakim]
"Complicated"
[Rakim]
"Know what I mean?" [Rakim]

I see destruc-tion, even little
kids trust none
They bust guns, that's what they get a rush from
When I
see em, we build and have a real discussion
"Yo Ra, what's the jewel of the
day?" "What up, son"
"You got ambition?" Shorty said, "Man listen
I got
demands for livin, can't stand division
Make grands on my mission, till
everything glisten
Women in the Expedition, no plans for prison
In a
vision the city get, 2 milleni G
Sittin in my MSC sippin Hennesy
Gettin
high, and watch life pass me by"
So I asked him why, wit a fast reply
He
said "I'm livin just to die without any feelings
So I wait here for my Maker
till it's time to go
Wit this dime I know
Wit all of her girls and all of
my mens
Waitin for the world to end"

Chorus 2x

Shorty was
taught to keep his head to the sky, and never cry
But the streets left him
to die, now it's death in his eye
Livin a sin of hitmen, a sinister
grin
From be-ginning to end, in it to win
Evil rebels, doin what we doin
in the ghetto
Thinkin if we was thorough we can deceive the devil
You
can't win, your life be end, try again
Shorty said, "Why we born again to
die again?"
That's what I said when I realized I had a gift
To uplift and
be one of Allah's advocates
Teach the youth and speak the truth
Show em
what peace can do when ?ill? reach for you
And my reward won't be jewels or
cheese, it's even better
I can be one of the greatest MC's ever
If I tell
em they intelligent women and great men
And live, stop waitin for the world
to end

Chorus 2x

"I'm ragin, rippin up the stage an'
Don't it
sound amazin, know what I mean?" [Rakim]
"Don't it sound amazin, know what I
mean?"
"Rakim"