Chuck D - I lyrics

[Verse 1] I came from a place I forgot I woke up in a parking lot, far from a meal and a cot On the corner where all the streets got the same name Maybe my brain's on the brink of insane Pain between the papers while sleepin' on the train This the land of milk and honey, (know what I'm sayin?) The invisible man times three, Black, down and out Out standing on a corner no doubt Now a nation of homeless sleepin' in bus stations Another win for the pilgrims who said "No more Haitians!" As I proceed, someone to feed me is what I need Through three blocks of dealers tryin' to hit me off with some weed Avenues and boulevards hungry as a f**er Hope to get a ride from a trucker Everybody know I ain't no s**er Everytime I used to drop 30 at the Rucker Away from crazy kids in Generation Wrecked Dissin' pyramids while praisin' projects Walk past old folks gettin' no respect Callin' young folks a buncha no good rejects And I walk on [Hook] An eye for an eye, I can't recognize the man in the mirror Is it I? It is I Now who this cat I'm lookin at? Cause I've been waiting so long to get where I'm goin' An eye for a eye in this country tis of thee Now how the hell can I be free? Now who this cat I'm lookin' at? Cause I been lost so long without anybody knowin' [Verse 2] So I move on and I walk on Past the preachers and the pimps gettin' their talk on Now why do home gotta be where the negative roam? "To be or not to be?", so I roll alone I'm trapped within this skin and these bones Amongst temporary kings on cellular phones Can I last, as I walk past Mad cigarette billboards and malt liquor ads? Walkin' on broken bottles and potato chip bags Everyone I see got the nerve to brag Where they from what they got and don't own squat Disrespect where they from and ya might get shot Zombies askin' me what the latest bomb be "You shoulda shot the f**in' sheriff and the f**in' deputy, G" For okaying the drug trade and lettin' it be But I know prison for me is an industry So I walk, I heard the best things in life be free Didn't God make this land and the air that we breathe? Now former homeless don't give a damn about me In the mirror, somebody else is starin' at me Maybe prison is the skin I'm within All this time I been sufferin', can't fix it wit a Bufferin Plus they said I'll never work in this town again (Goddamn) So I keep on walkin' [Hook] An eye for an eye, I can't recognize the man in the mirror Is it I? It is I Now who this cat I'm lookin at? Cause I've been waiting so long to get where I'm goin' An eye for a eye in this country tis of thee Now how the hell can I be free? Now who this cat I'm lookin' at? Cause I been lost so long without anybody knowin' [Verse 3] Lil day day is big day and just did time Seen him standin' on the unemployment line Which collided wit the line of the health clinic I seen Crazy Stacy her a** standin' up in it No more welfare, they cut her Medicaid Damn, my mama used to do her braids I keep walkin' so they don't see me But I doubt if they doin' any better than me So I walk on never take the planet for granted I paved the concrete, asphalt and granite I walk fast past three brothers sittin' on the porch With a yard of dirt, and littered with Newports Talkin' how they comin' up while they sittin' on their a** As I walk past em I'm a target of their laughs And one said, "Let's get him for his f**in' stash" As I walked fast past the other yards with gra** Had a lil' cash, tried to make it last From a few deals I made from cleanin' windshields I ran like a rally, they caught me in an alley Can't get out the ghetto from New York to Cali I thought I had nothin' till I felt the knife And now I ain't even got a life