Beat Street Lyrics - Singles - Grandmaster Flash

Beat Street Breakdown, Raah! 

Hip Hop! 

Beat Street 

The king of the beat 

You see him rocking that beat from across the street 

And Huh Huh! 

Beat Street is a lesson too, because you can't let the Streets beat you! 

Well a picture can express a thousand words to describe all the beauty of life you give 

And if the world was yours to do over, I know you'd paint a better place to live 

Where the colours would swirl and the boys and girls can grow in peace and harmony 

And where murals stand on walls so grand as far as the eyes are able to see, Ha! 

I never knew art til I saw your face and there'll never be one to take your place 

'Cause each and every time you touch the spray paint can 

Michelangelo's soul controls your hand 

Then serenades of blue and red and the beauty of the rainbow fills your head 

Crescendo of colours hang in tune, Man why oh why d'ya have to die so soon? 

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust, where the good die young it's all thy must 

'Cause as life must live, death must die and the tear shall fall from the living eye, Huh! 

The teardrops fall for the state of mind of the beautiful lady that you left behind 

In love and alone, but now you're dead, and she still can't get you out of her head, Huh! 

More tears fall for all you've done, trying to be a good father to your only son 

But now who's gonna make sure that he's fed, put a shirt on his back and a roof overhead? 

Tell me who's gonna dream the impossible dream of the beautiful cities in the islands genes? 

When your works of art brought into being all that the ghetto stopped you from seeing 

Bums on the sidewalk, garbage in the streets, abandoned buildings, bricks of concrete 

The ladies on the corner are selling their bodies, and everybody wants a part in that party 

I'm hanging out tough, rocking late at night, running wild in the town of the neon light 

You either play some ball or stand in the hall Huh! 

You gotta make something outta nothing at all 

I'm sitting in the classroom learning the rules and it says you can't do graffiti in school 

They can't be wrong in the hallowed hall, so my notebook turned into a brick wall 

The heart of a lion and the courage of three, and the mind of a man much wiser than me 

You're the soul of the brother who won't come back 

Who died in my arms on the railroad track 

'Cause I'm caught in the rat race, looking for my own space 

There's gotta be a better place for you and me 

There's pie in the sky, and an eye for an eye 

Some people gotta die just to be free 

You search for justice and what do you find? 

You find just us on the unemployment line 

You find just us sweating from dawn to dusk 

There's no justice, there's Huh, just us, Ha! 

Still life urban masterpiece, your trademark was written on trains and walls 

A million dollar gift only God released, and yet you got killed for nothing at all 

So after this there'll be no more hard times, no more bad times and no more pain 

No more chump change, none of that bull 

Just movies, museums and the hall of fame 

So all you Hip Hops get on up, and let's take it to the top where we belong 

'Cause the age of the Beat Street wave is here 

Everybody let's sing along, now c'mon, say 'Ho!' ('Ho!'), Say 'Ho!' ('Ho!') 

And to let me know I'm rocking the microphone everybody say 'Ramo!' ('Ramo!') 

'Ramo!' ('Ramo!') 

Raah! 

A newspaper burns in the sand, and the headlines say 'Man destroys Man!' 

Extra! Extra! Read all the bad news on the war for peace that everybody would lose 

The rise and fall, the last great empire, the sound of the whole world caught on fire 

The ruthless struggle, the desperate gamble 

The game that left the whole world in shambles 

The cheats, the lies, the alibis 

And the foolish attempt to conquer the skies 

Lost in space, and what is it worth, huh? 

The president just forgot about Earth 

Spending multi billions, and maybe even trillions 

The cost of weapons ran into zillions 

There's gold in the street, and diamonds under feet 

And the children in Africa don't even eat 

Flies on their faces, they're living like mice 

And the houses even make the ghetto look nice, Huh! 

The water tastes funny, it's forever too sunny 

And they work all month and don't make no money 

A fight for power, a nuclear shower 

And people shout out in the darkest hour 

Of sights unseen and voices unheard 

And finally the bomb gets the last word 

Christians killed Muslims, and Germans killed Jews 

And everybody's bodies are used and abused, Huh! 

Minds are poisoned and souls are polluted 

Superiority complex is deep rooted 

Leeches and lice's, and people got prices 

Egomaniacs control the self-righteous 

Nothing is sacred and nothing is pure 

So the revelation of death is our cure 

Hitler and Caesar, Custer and Reagan 

Napoleon, Castro, Mussolini and Begin 

Ghengis Khan and the Shah of Iran 

Mixed with the blood of the weaker man 

The peoples in terror, the leaders made the error 

And now they can't even look in the mirror 

'Cause we gotta suffer while things get rougher 

And that's the reason why we got to get tougher 

To learn from the past and work for the future 

And don't be a slave to no computer 

'Cause the Children of Man inherits the land 

And the future of the world is in your hands 

So just throw your hands in the air 

And wave 'em like you just don't care 

And if you believe that you're the future 

Scream it out and say 'Oh yeah!' ('Oh yeah!') 

'Oh yeah!' ('Oh yeah!') 

Raah!