Testo Intro - T.Y.
Testo della canzone Intro (T.Y.), tratta dall'album Bizness Iz Open
You can only keep a people down if they
Stay down and they want to be down
If we as a people do the right things
Get our family values back together
Discipline our kids, love our kids
I don't care how much racism that they try to pull on us
We will survive, we survived all these years
And times are sure and it's hard now as
It was back then for our forefathers
If you want to talk about real crime
To make it that hard for these kids to survive, to
Grow, to be constructive members of the community
To make that a fight for them instead of their birthright
That's the real crime
If there are limited dollars, where are you putting them?
Are you putting them into jobs in upstate New York
Keeping people in cages
Or are you putting them into the cities and
Into the schools and building a generation?
For what we spend to keep an 18-year-old in prison for two years
We can put him through Harvard
I think we're better off if he gets a college degree
Than if he goes to prison for two years and does nothing
And I think what citizens need to do is say our communities matter
That we want money going into building our communities
That our kids matter, that our kids are a resource
That we want money going into building schools
Supplying drug treatment where it's needed
Building children, building families
That it's not acceptable to have the one growth
Industry in our country be locking people up
Education is the only way that we can succeed as a people
The only way that the choices can be clear
Is that we got to be examples of what is right
What will our future be like when the thousands
Of young people we are putting in prison today
Are released back into society?
What will our future be like when the thousands
Of young people we are putting in prison today
Are released back into society?
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Writer(s): Curtis Jackson, Robert Tewlow
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