E-TOWN CONCRETE LYRICS

1. Pariah

The choice between the devil you know and the devil you don't.
Use force to coerce compliance.
Use force if they don't.
You can slit their throats from ear to ear or put a noose tight 'round their neck.
They won't kneel.
We can't covert them.
We can bomb their homes from up above and burn down what is left.
They won't surrender.
We'll never break the will they have.
Pariah.
We're creating the hatred.
We're combating the hatred we create.
Is nothing sacred?
No.
The snake that eats its own tail destroys itself.
Compromise innocent lives in the name of wealth almighty.
Slit their throats from ear to ear or put a noose tight 'round their neck.
Bomb their homes from up above and burn down what is left.
Cut the limbs off of a child and the public buts the check.
Who cuts the check?
Pariah

2. Ploughshares Vs. Swords

Beat the ploughshares into swords.
Initiate a state of perpetual quarrel, this shall never end.
Keep the coffers full.
Keep their coffins full.
Feed them fear to keep them tame, the king proclaimed.
You don't want what I want, I see it in your eyes.
You don't burn like I burn and even if you tried, you can't see what I see knowing what's inside.
You can't see what I see.
I know what you hide.

3. Wide Awake

I'm wide-awake.
Wide.
I'm wide-awake.
I see the moves that you're trying to make.
You think I'm sleeping be I'm wide-awake.
All this spinning makes me dizzy.
It makes me sick.
Color-coded fear to ensure you fall in line when they crack the whip.
I'm not scared.
I'm wide-awake.
Do you really trust the things they feed you in the news?
Corporations own the networks that help to skew our views.
I'm not fooled.
I see the moves that you're trying to make.
You think I'm sleeping but I'm wide-awake.
I know the moves you're trying to make.
You want me sleeping but I'm wide-awake.
Like a fault line moving beneath our feet; slipping slowly, you barely notice.
Until the ground gives way beneath you and the world crumbles down around you.
You want me under?
Put me under.
Put me under.
Put me under.
Wide Awake.

4. The Distance

One man fights to keep his pockets fat.
Another is fighting just to pay his bills.
Some go to doctors for the vanity, others can't even afford their pills.
The distance between us grows.
Just how numb have we become?
Look how far we've grown.... apart.
Some show their love for the land by stopping and asking "Why?"
Others show support for a war by sending their sons off to die.
The distance between us grows.
Just how numb have we become?
What have we become?
Look how far we've grown... apart.
Now I won't talk to you and you won't talk to me.
And I might look away, but you will never see the distance between
race,
religion, class,
education,
Sexual orientation,
Political affiliation.
We'll never see eye to eye.
This distance will keep on growing and growing and growing....

5. Do You Know What It's Like?

Lessen programs promoting contraception if it means protection in the next election.
Religious groups will keep sending those checks in so we can start wars and keep sending those jets in.
Exactly just what kinda shit did we step in?
Exactly just what kinda message we sending?
It don't matter if you condemn condoms, it ain't your problem,
it's the type of thing that only happens in Harlem,
Happens in Compton, happens in Newark, it happens in Houston.
I think we got a problem Houston.
Invoke God to camouflage your true sins.
Poke and prod, private life intrusions;
You say it's for our safety when you spy our movements?
huh, well I don't buy it doofus, I ain't stupid this is my two cents.

You don't know what it's like to pray.
You don't know what it's like.
You don't know what it's like to pray, for God to turn the night to day.
Do you know what it's like to pray?
Do you know what it's like?
Do you know what it's like to pray for god to turn the night to day?

Let's spend some real money on real life improvements.
Instead of moon men and booing same sex unions.
We need to take a look at why society is loosing.
One room shack a single mother with two kids.
They share the same bed and the walls are too thin.
So they hear every fight.
Fourth grade kids who can't read or write.
And all they ever hear in mommy beat at night.
They can't sleep at night, they can't catch no Z's.
So what the fuck they care about the ABC's.
It's crazy kids in grades 1, 2, 3.
Trying to decide whether to be a B or C.
Their stomachs are empty there's not enough MD's but we can spend millions chasing WMD's.
Or we can just build a pipeline in the mid-east.
And when the bill comes, send it to me!

You don't know what it's like to pray.
You don't know what it's like.
You don't know what it's like to pray, for God to turn the night to day.
Do you know what it's like to pray?
Do you know what it's like?
Do you know what it's like to pray for god to turn the night to day?

6. Blood

A bid farewell in pools of crimson.
A rose colored lullaby.
There can be no justice, it can't be taken back.
All the evil deeds you've done have left your hands all covered in the - Blood.
You can never make amends for the blood.
One day you'll suffer for your sins -
Massacres on top of slaughters,
To feed the drive that keeps a man that has still wanting more.
Like the Great White in the water.
The downtrodden have always paid the price through ther tears and - Blood.
You can never make amends for the blood.
One day you'll suffer for your sins -
Try to erase, but you won't ever atone for all the horrors that will never wash away.

7. A Setup

Johnny never went to college.
He couldn't afford the fee.
He got lucky; he had an uncle who worked for NBC.
Now Johnny's taking for people who shop from the TV
Mostly wealthy housewives who buy expensive jewerly.

"It's a setup, to keep you down. They set up you, then knock you"

Johnny got laid-off, his job sent overseas.
He made about 50 bucks day, his replacement $3.
My mother never had much money; my grades were never all that great.
So how fuck am I supposed to learn if eduation cost more than I make?
And how fuck the am I supposed to earn when good jobs want a college degree?
Seven bucks an hour, what kind of future does that leave for me?!

"It's a setup, to keep you down. They set up you, then knock you"(2x)

Johnny's is going through some tough times and barely making both ends meet.
He can't find a jod on account of the economy.
Johnny's feeling desperate.
He's got kids to feed.
So the day I met Johnny, he robbing me.

8. What Can I Do?

Trying so hard to forget to remember.
One sip to take the sorrow.
One sip to face tomorrow.
Sip; swallow your pride, wallow and hide.
Hollow inside and I wish
That I could take the sun and make it shine;
Take your pain and make it mine.
I can't do anything at all.
I can't keep catching when you fall.
If I can't do anything at all, what can I do?
Open the bottle and erase your memories.
Stumble and fall, sipping and slipping away from it all.
Take your pain and make it mine.
Take the sun and make it shine.
Take your shoes and walk in mine.
Walk in mine.

9. Made For War

Black clouds take hold like a pit bull when it locks it's jaws.
Trouble always had a funny way of finding some kind of path into my life.
I had to stand and fight.
I won't run.
I won't hide.
I'll stand and fight.
Thought I told ya'll when I sang before,
Better get an umbrella when it rains it pours.
We can bang 'cause I'm made for war.
If I get knocked down then I'll aim for more.
Lash out like a rat in a corner, with it's back to the wall.
Trouble always had a funny way of finding some kind of path into my life.
I had to stand and fight.
I won't run.
I won't hide.
I'll stand and fight.
Thought I told ya'll when I sang before,
Better get an umbrella when it rains it pours.
We can bang 'cause I'm made for war.
If I get knocked down then I'll aim for more.
I spit metaphors for them kids with the souls that's lost.
We're here and we ain't fall off.
Talking soft?
Your shit gets tossed.
You can never know how hard we fought.
Feels like I'm breaking down.
Things have to turn around.
I just can't take it.
It feels like I'm breaking down.
I just can't make it.
And I pick myself off of the floor.
I waited to fight some more.
Thought I told ya'll when I sang before,
Better get an umbrella when it rains it pours.
We can bang 'cause I'm made for war.
If I get knocked down then I'll aim for more.
I spit metaphors for them kids with the souls that's lost.
We're here and we ain't fall off.
Talking soft?
Your shit gets tossed.
You can never know how hard we fought.

10. All That You Have Is Still Not Enough

Basicly I was just born bastard, long for green pastures
I am a pheonix, I was born from the ashes
The forms you take in the storm is what you makes strong
Anybody could perfrom like a charm when the waters calm
Ya'll don't know nathan 'bout the things I've been faced with
Can ya'll relate how I came from the basement?
I make the music and the same time faced it
I've been so close to my dreams I can taste it

Come on and punish me, the only thing that keeps me sane
I look to you for things I can not change
I need your blessing, do you approve?
My best was never good enough for you

So this is how it feels and it doesn't feel so good
To you couldnt give enough after giving all you could
Its been raining for so long its like the sun will never shine
I've been losing for so long, I think I fell too far behind

I've swam beneath the icy waters, not comming up for air
I've spent my whole life living for those who didn't even care

So this is how it feels and it doesn't feel so good
To know you couldnt give enough after giving all you could
Its been raining for so long its like the sun will never shine
I've been losing for so long I think I fell too far behind

I sat and thought for a while today
I got depressed and put the smiles away, 'cause I've been struggling
Since back in my childhood days, I've been walkin' since forever still I'm miles away
Maybe ya'll never forgave for my wilder days
Even though now I'm more wise in my ways
I'm losing faith in myself
Sometimes I doubt I'll even make it myself,
Whose gonna give it to me, if I don't take it myself?

Come on and punish me, the only thing that keeps me sane
I look to you for things I can not change
I need your blessing, do you approve?
My best was never good enough for you

So this is how it feels and it doesn't feel so good
To know you couldnt give enough after giving all you could
Its been raining for so long its like the sun will never shine
I've been losing for so long I think I fell too far behind

11. There Goes The Neighborhood

There goes the neighborhood.

Here come them fuckin' wiggers
With those fancy cars.
Who gave them fuckin' wiggers
Those rock guitars?
Who let 'em in the club?
Did you make 'em pay?
Who let 'em on the stage?
Who let 'em play?

Don't they know rock's just for us
don't they know the rules?
Those wiggers just ain´t hardcore
This shit ain't cool.
Those wiggers want everything
In the fuckin' world
That wigger plays so good
He took my muthafuckin' girl
There goes the neighborhood.

There goes the neighborhood,
There goes the neighborhoooooooood,
There goes the neighborhood.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.

We're here, bitches
And we ain't goin' nowhere.
We're movin' right next door to you,
E. Town muthafucka.
If all you punks there don't like it
You can suck, my muthafuckin' dick, ha.

Ten years in the game
We´ve seen a lot new come
And we´ve seen a lot new go
But we´re still right here
Ha ha ha ha hahaha
Aaaah don't be mad hahahaha
Bitch

Here come them fuckin' wiggers
With those fancy cars.
Who gave them fuckin' wiggers
Those rock guitars?
Who let 'em in the club?
Did you make 'em pay?
Who let 'em on the stage?
Who let 'em play?
Don't they know rock's just for us
Don't they know the rules?
Those wiggers just ain´t hardcore
This shit ain't cool.
Those wiggers want everything in the fuckin' world.
That wigger plays so good,
He took my muthafuckin' girl.
There goes the neighborhood

There goes the neighborhood!
There goes the neightborhoooooood!
There goes the neighborhood!
There goes the neighborhood!







E-TOWN CONCRETE LYRICS