Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five - World War III lyrics

[Chorus:] Life is a Game of Business And in the end we fight (swear to god) The new and old are bought and sold And everybody thinks they're right War is a game of business A game we shouldn't play (swear to god) Cause men with guns k**ed all our sons They blew us all away They Called it World (Paranoia!) War (it's Almost Over) 3 (Cause Nobody Hears what the People Say) Realistically the Bombs are ready Technically, Nuclear by name Capability of total Destruction Radioactive d**h and flame There is talk of a fiery doom Prophesied since the dawn of time In a world of bloodshed, ma** confusion k**ing, diseases, Pollution and Crime Man is in Conflict with nature And that is why there's so much sin Mother nature's delicate balance will fix it so nobody wins In World (Catastrophic) War (Reaganomics) 3 (and nobody hears what the people say) World (it's Atomic) War (catastrophic) Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha A thousand miles away from home A mortally wounded soldier dies And on the blood stained battlefield His life flashes before his eyes Before he dies the man saw Jesus And Jesus Christ took his hand And on the soldier's dying breath The good lord took him to the promised land Cause there's.. No (people living) More (People Dying) Pain (Everybody Disappeared) [Chorus:] Breakdown, Pain 1984, See the world at war Your darkest fears of reality are knockin' down your door Drones and mutations, Clones and deviations And there's no one that can escape the nuclear revelation Because [Chorus:] The silver moon, the midnight stars, jupiter collides with mars And out of the darkness spirits roar To cast revenge on the earth once more The leaders of the world are hypnotized By wizards, dark and in disguise Brought to earth by an evil hand To devour souls in a brand new land They let the leader think that war brings peace And out come the one with the mark of the beast There's evil behind closed doors In the year of 1984 [Chorus:] Long ago and all too soon 2 different wars fought on the moon One put (creators?) on it first Then we blew futher in the universe Both of these were nuclear wars Breaking universal laws Then falling stars and meteorites Dropped to earth by day and night Twisters, earthquakes, hurricanes Volcanos, drops and torrential rain Then one day, the UFO's Came to see the whole world explode We will pay the ultimate price And a lesson is to be learned When we play with nuclear fire Everybody's gonna get burned [Chorus:] Pain! Pain! (so let the music play on) Between the boundaries of time and space Was the planet earth and the human race A world alive and centuries old With veins of diamonds, silver and gold Snow capped mountains over looked the land And the deep blue sea made love with the sand Full grown strands of evergreen hair Kissed the sky with a breath of air Where exotic fish once swam in the sea And the eagles soared in the sky so free But the foolish clan that walked the land Was the creature, that they called man They're cannibalistic, paranoid fools Tricking each other with games and rules Training their men to k** and fight Moving and stearing their mechanized might Only thought that man had in mind Was to conquer the world and the rest of mankind And with the thought that they were right They gave you permission to take a man's life The ones you k**ed fought just as hard Then you even had the nerve to pray to god But god don't wanna hear all your mess When you ain't the one that he laid to rest The devil's children with no disgrace Crushed and k**ed the human race While they got rich off the games and war What in the hell were you fighting for A silly a** metal, a stupid parade For all those innocent people you slaid And after that, you couldn't even get a job Cause fighting that war made you a slob A seargeant and major, a corporal, Lieutenant Titles and positions were all invented You, and me, and all this mess Are just a bunch of pieces in a game of chess It's all the same, a third world war A blood thirsty ma**acre just like before It's genocide, three billion tears Feeding on a war every twenty years Then one day we heard the sound Of the whole damn world tumbling down Just one big boom, and what do you know The world is a ghetto, high and low Crumbling buildings all around Man's creation burned to the ground Chaos, panic, fear and pain Days of radioactive rain Grotesque figures burned alive Miraculously seem to survive Everything of reality is the science fiction on TV Mutant dog and sabertoothed rats Eat men with guns and baseball bats The dead won't die, the (rudie?) won't cry And everybody's asking the question “why” Until swarms of millions walk from the city And thousands more went underground below With their head held down in their own pity Wondering where, they do not know Cause in this game we had a chance But we blew it for cheap thrills and romance Maybe one day we'll get another play But until then remember what i say [Chorus:]