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By the Time I Get to Arizona

  1. [Intro: Sister Soujah]
  2. This is Sister Soujah
  3. Public Enemy, Security of the First World, and all allied forces
  4. Are traveling west to head off a white supremacy scheming
  5. To destroy the national celebration of Martin Luther Kings birthday
  6. Public Enemy believes that the powers that be in the states of New Hampshire and Arizona have found psychological discomfort in paying tribute to a black man who tried to teach white people the meaning of civilization. Good luck brothers, show 'em what you got
  7.  
  8. [Verse 1]
  9. I'm counting down to the day deserving fitting for a king
  10. I'm waiting for the time when I can get to Arizona
  11. Cause my money is spent on the goddamn rent
  12. Neither party is mine, not the jackass or the elephant
  13. 20,000 niggy niggy brothers in the corner
  14. Of the cell block but they come from California
  15. Population is none in the desert and sun
  16. With a gun cracker running things under his thumb
  17. Staring hard at the postcards, isn't it odd and unique
  18. Seeing people smile wild in the heat?
  19. 120 degrees, cause I want to be free
  20. What's a smiling face when the whole state's racist?
  21. Why I want a holiday? Damn it, cause I wanna
  22. So what if I celebrate it standing on a corner
  23. I ain't drinking no 40, thinking time with a nine
  24. 'Til we get some land, call me the trigger man
  25. Looking for the governor, huh? He ain't lovin' ya, ha?
  26. But here to trouble ya, he's rubbin' ya wrong
  27. Get the point and come along, and he can get to the joint
  28. I urinated on the state while I was kicking this song
  29. Yeah, he appear to be fair
  30. The sucker over there, he try to keep it yesteryear
  31. The good ol' days, the same ol' ways that kept us dyin'
  32. Yes: you, me, myself, and I indeed
  33. What he need is a nosebleed
  34. Read between the lines, and then you see the lie
  35. Politically planned... But understand, that's all she wrote
  36. When we see the real side that hide behind the vote
  37. And they can't understand why he, the man
  38. I'm singin' 'bout a KING
  39. They don't like it when I decide to mic it
  40. Wait, I'm waitin' for the date
  41. For the man, who demands respect
  42. Cause he was great, C’mon
  43. I'm on the one mission to get a politician to honor
  44. Or he's a goner by the time I get to Arizona
  45.  
  46. [Verse 2]
  47. Well, I got 25 days to do it
  48. If a wall in the way, just watch me go through it
  49. Cause I gotta do what I gotta do
  50. P.E. number one, gets the job done
  51. When it's done and over, was because I drove'er
  52. Through all the static, not stick but automatic
  53. That's the way it is, he gotta get his
  54. Talking MLK, gonna find a way
  55. Make the state pay, I'm looking for the day
  56. Hard as it seems, this ain't no damn dream
  57. Gotta know what I mean, it's team against team
  58. Catch the light beam
  59.  
  60. So I pray, I pray every day, I do and praise Jah the maker
  61. Looking for culture I got, but not here from Jamaica
  62. Pushing and shaking the structure, bringing down the Babylon
  63. Hearing the sucker that make it hard for the Brown
  64. The hard Boulovard I need it now more than ever now
  65. Who's sitting on my freedom, opressor, people beater
  66. A piece of the pick, we picked a piece of land that we're deserving now
  67. Reparation a piece of the nation, and, damn, he got the nerve
  68. Another nigga they say and classify we want too much
  69. My people plus the whole nine is mine, don't think I even double dutch
  70. Here's a brother my attitude is hit 'em, hang them high
  71. I'm blowing up the 90's, started ticking in '86
  72. When the blind get a mind, better start fearing while we sing it
  73. Now, there will be the day we know those down and who will go
  74.  
  75. By the time I get to Arizona
  76. Sitting deep stuck to your seat like your comfy sofa,

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