[Intro] Yo, we in a fight for our lives We in a fight for our lives And the trip thing about it I don't know if we can win And what's sad.. I don't think we wanna win [Ice Cube] Can you help me? A n***a need a job I'm desperate, for some corn on the cob I'm helpless, will I have to steal and rob? No black business so I got to ask Bob Bob got a job but it's done by a robot No lunch break so it can do a whole lot Mo' than a human being, and it's European Ran by a Korean-American So there I am, surrounded by aluminum It's nowhere you can run It's nowhere you can be It's just you and me, versus modern day machinery [Hook: repeat 2X] It's man vs. machine baby My head's in the guillotine baby It might take it off clean baby Automated dreams equal man vs. machine baby
[Ice Cube] I'm a fly caught in a web A fish stuck in the internet Don't they know I'm a deadly catch? Eat this meat, every bite so full of stress So what can I say to you? I'm highly relatable and bio-degradable I thought we was unfadeable Slaves to machinery, is that the way to go? I don't need you to f** 24-7, I gets that computer love I don't need you to love Human contact, ain't what it used to was It's man vs. machine baby My head's in the guillotine baby And it took it off clean baby Automated dreams equal man vs. machine baby [Outro: repeat 2X] The whole world is automated It need to be investigated When people are eliminated What we 'posed to do when it's time to feed all the babies?