Living Foul

GZA

Such a shame, such a shame

Critical...

You're living foul, things are getting wild

It's difficult to raise a child

Cause growin up in a lost environment

Every day becomes a new experiment

Now we are faced with problems

But if we come together we can solve them

Before we start to solving, here's a sample

Who's coming foward to set the example

Inflation, starvation

Surviving takes a strong nation

Those who like to bring about static

Be aware of the true Asiatic

What you see was predicted before

We were already warned of this bloody drug war

Wherever you sell it wherever you go

Ya still being clocked by the cops, ya know

You're paid by the hours, they see time flies

While your brain's being showered by a bunch of lies

You say I'm no slave where's the lock and chain

Hmmm, on your ignorant brain

Skip to ya loo with your High Pro Glow

Ya not stim off life, ya stimulated off blow

Or the new improved, ask beaming Jack

Criza, criza, crack

Chorus: You're living foul, living foul

My people you were forced then brought

Stripped from your jewels brainwashed and then taught

To hate, deceive and dislike each other

Separating themselves, you're not my brother

Sit up at home for a mystery

Face-valuing things that you can't see

Can't taste can't smell, hear or feel

But senses prove everything is real

I'm here to present a positive way

If strong you'll accord if weak you'll stray

Drug users are stuck in the mud

Another 20th century modern day chud

These cannibal humanoid undernourished dwellers

Just took your check to the heroin cellar

Dope addicts, that walk and roam

Might have Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

AIDS, doesn't come from me

Cause I've studied and learned my history

It had to be something evil to bring that about

This is showing and proving beyond a shadow of a doubt

Chorus: You're living foul, living foul

When you wake up, to a brand new day

And you think about your salary or your pay

You think of negative things, should I get involved

Caught in crime, serving time, that's problems to solve

So you think about it, say that you must quit

Smoke a blunt, then you do the same old shhhh

And while ya high you don't truly know why

You spent your cash so that you can buy

Some herb (word) and some Old E (yeah)

A fifty cent Philly so the herb can be

Rolled up modern style to what we call a blunt

Know the facts is true don't try to front

Or stray away from the positive message in the song

That's only showing and proving you're not strong

And the strong is what we need today

Why? They go the opposite way

Chorus: Of living foul, you're living foul

The words right now flowing off my tongue

Is for the old, the young, the one's that's strong

Those who are worshippers of diamonds and gold

You should not be bought and you should not be sold

Those who always want but does not need

is slightly controlled by the hands of greed

If you rob, steal, backstab and abduct

Sooner or later you will self-destruct

Chorus: You're living foul

Trivia about the song Living Foul by GZA

When was the song “Living Foul” released by GZA?
The song Living Foul was released in 1990, on the album “Words From the Genius”.

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