Food Clothes And Shelter Lyrics - Dead Prez

[sticman] 

Yeah...for all my peoples that's hungry 

[chorus] 

A nigga need food, ya got to have food for ya health 

And clothes, gear to keep a steam for yaself 

Son, shelter, a place to lay for rest when ya stressed 

Over life, 'cause it's trife and aint no god gon help ya 

[sticman] 

I feel the winter heart creepin...vicious as the wind, which is life, 

when it's deep without a meanin...a trife scene it screams 

Niggas fiendin...the pipe dream and some be seemin 

like the only way to keep breathin in the slums...but nothing comes 

And keeping funds is like dreamin... 

my situation no solution...even the young become demons 

Where I'm from shit is unyielding...Something like three-hundred million 

gun wielding black rats trapped in one building 

With low ceilings...and no feelings... 

cutthroat villains... Dope dealings...and glossy eyed pavilions 

Sunken faces...and powder traces... 

My people slave for the basics...the powerless devoured in the matrix 

Of politics, pimps and glass pipes... 

From gun blast and flickin off blunt ash...the cash heist 

The fast life... where the have-nots rule 

Stick and grab plots...toting tools, victim last by some jewels 

Round the world, we stay stuck in capsules...shackled 

And crackas got homes like castles 

I figure the only way this nigga got to go is wild 

Plottin licks for liberation...stockin cap style 

[chorus x2] 

[m-1] 

I was born in the storm hearin gun clap from thunder 

See my childhood peers...catchin years by the number 

I wake up from hunger...try to lift my stress that I'm under 

How I made it this far makes me wonder 

You in a fight for ya life, for basic human rights 

Can't afford the boomin prices...it's economic crisis 

Life is a sacrifice, I'm down to my last bag of rice 

They forcin us to live like laboratory mice 

Like fuckin laboratory mice that's right 

You wear the camaflouge...but do u choose to live the soldiers life 

I told u before this is a war not a play fight 

Taught to be a slave from the womb to the gravesite 

Some of us even share the views of the Kaina Knights 

Tryna be white...but they gon lose in this game of life 

So dead that! I tie my dread back and scheme... 

Put a star on my red black and green... 

[chorus x2] 

[bridge] 

What do power mean, our team 

seem to think it means sour cream 

'cause our dreams got us fiendin for the power son 

And huey p said political power come from the barrel of the gun 

What do power mean, I believe in thieving 

And smoking weed, 'cause everything happens for a reason 

I hope my seed grow up and get even, it's open season 

And if you poor and black, you know the reason...yeah