Smile city is slummin-something is really wrong.
Sound silly like really on psylocib-e-on
No room tomb sized living small
Church choir mosque bells same block same hell
Common en-e-my, common poverty
Common hunger please gimme karma can we eat
Got a million heads in a mile of streets
Caught in small world too many peeps
Man selling water for a dollar that he cannot drink
Women stick together stuck with HIV
Children picking trash trynna find some meat
Bones carved alone for a living barely eked
Dogs in a pile skinny all gone to sleep
Smiles all I see still smiles all I see
Must be something wrong with me
Why I'm never flashing teeth
Orphan boy Polaroid stole the toy from his neighbor
He don't ask for paper, he don't ask for water
He asks for my watch say he wants to look famous
Tummy rubbing cousin just want something for starvation
And here I am thinking I knew what-its-like-to suffer
I'm a lucky fucker
Still I'm fuckin puzzled
How the city slummin more lovin than the top
How they stick together riches driving us apart
All the money in the world maybe we be poor at heart
I seen a broke man share and a rich man not
I seen a gang-sta care while the presi-dent golfs
If life seem unfair first check what you got
Cause the people who got nothin never show it all. Huh.
(1:34)
Smile city, smile smile smile city. X8
(1:56)
Look. These paths are paved with plastic
While yours are paved with gold
Highway coming, trading people for a road
Wolf blowin houses made of straw
How the… president goin help em when elected by the mob
I write my wish to right the riches wrongs,
To fight with fists up, to tear the walls down,
Stick, up for what's right, n to be heard loud,
But, the bigger problem here, ain't even around
The tribes were separated by outsiders to the land
Some were given power while the rest suppressed and killed
But even those with power still controlled by western hands
How the fuck we going be proud to be the cause of all these deaths
Oh we think we civilized because we are the west
But I ain't seen more civil eyes than those with nothing left
all I see are dimple smiles from those who live with less. Bless.
Smile city. Smile smile smile city. X4
