Hurricane Lyrics - Singles - Mos Def

Same story, same target, different time 

Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the blind 

Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind 

Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind 

Same story, same target, different time 

Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the blind 

Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind 

Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind 

Yo, talk about paying the ultimate price 

Hurricane been incarcerated all of his life 

Started out at like twelve 

Trapped in a belly of hell 

Grew into a man inside of a cell 

Yo, anger just swell up 

At a early age that develop 

Hot head and now it ain't shit y'all could tell him 

They said he's on a road to become a felon 

But instead he swung blows that'll split your melon 

He did his thing and was the king of the ring, undisputed 

Started making noise but they tried to mute it 

They put him through it 

For him to make the system look stupid, [yo] 

They rather look you in the face and shoot it 

And leave your spot looted [or what] 

Or leave your whole life blank futured and caught 

When you scream at it and do it 

With sweat leaking from the outline of your solid 

Don't understand the point that you at 

Or how the hell you came to it? 

Flashback to images of that night, out in Patterson 

They pulled him over heading home from a gathering 

And when they told him the charge it kind of baffled him 

Murder in the first for the champ, we on that again? 

[Chorus] 

Hurricane 

Accuse a Hurricane 

Ain't change a damned shame 

It's life for Hurricane, Hurricane 

Forever, imagine your locked down forever 

Could y'all stand the weather? 

Could you hold it together? 

You tell me that you know the pain 

Yo, imagine if your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane 

Forever, imagine your locked down forever 

Could ya'll stand the weather? 

You built for that weather? 

Yo, know what'm saying? 

Know what'm saying? 

You gotta fight for what you believe in 

Nobody knows the troubles seen 

This flick left me wondering 

'What can become of kings and young kids?' 

Summer dream deferred, incident occurred, freedom blurred 

A freedom that would only be retrieved again in words, later on 

The cops, y'all know what they be on 

A nigga's life is like a field that they play upon, away and gone from 

Natural lifer, a soul he had to fight, 

Learn it himself, sleep days, stay up half the night 

Amongst dead man walking, he got afterlife exercising, 

Developing his knack to write 

Never leaving his cell, in this world he trapped himself 

What he loved on the outside world, detached himself 

You know the cards Blacks get dealt by the system 

He drew a picture of freedom with many dimensions 

This picture proved to be bigger than Black and White 

A young soul named Lesra brought him back to life 

It's amazing to a man what a book could do 

And how certain books seem to look for you 

This is the story of a champion's fall and rise 

The story left me wiping my eyes 

Peace are you 

[Chorus] 

Yo, yo, forever, imagine your locked down forever 

Could y'all stand the weather? 

Could you hold it together? 

You tell me that you know the pain 

Yo, imagine if your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane 

Forever and ever yo, locked down forever 

Could you stand the weather? 

Yo, yo I can't even explain the pain 

Just imagine if your life was like a hurricane 

Yes, I am the inescapable, the irresistible, 

The unnegotiable, the unchallenged [who dat?] 

I am time 

I scroll in measurements, control the elements, 

I hold the evidence, I tell the story [say what?] 

I am time 

I know no prejudice, I bare no sentiments 

For wealth or settlement, I move forward [who you?] 

I am time 

You can't recover me, conceal or smuggle me, 

Retreat or run from me, crawl up or under me, 

You can't do much for me besides serve 

Me well and have good dividends returned to you 

Or attempt to kill me off and have me murder you 

Many have wasted me but now they are facing me, 

Treated me unfaithfully and now endure me painfully 

Plaintively, I wait to see what history will shape to be, 

Who's hearts will never die inside the sake of me 

Angel's scribe the page for me, 

Keep a full account of all the names for me 

And make a special mark for Hurricane who (?) patiently 

[Chorus] 

Yo, yo, a Hurricane forever, 

Imagine your locked down forever 

Could you stand the weather? 

Could you hold it together? 

I can't even explain the pain 

Imagine if your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane 

Forever, imagine your locked down forever and ever, ever 

Could you hold it together? 

Yo, can't explain the pain with words, know'm saying? 

Just imagine if your life was like a hurricane 

The clouds clashed and the heaven's gave birth to star 

God placed it in a man on the day he was born 

Convicted minutes after, a true natural disaster 

Framed for manslaughter, the Hurricane Carter rising 

From out the south water, like torrential rains 

In the ring no opponent escaped unscathed 

You can't believe the world we live in's injust 

All I see is more proof, there's no place for us 

They had my man Carter locked in a cage, like an animal 

Drive him to the point where the mind work mechanical 

Or works by remote control 

It was done to all of us, they tapped directly into our soul 

Either it's sing-sing, or it's bars around your mind 

There's no where to run, no where to hide 

In a six-by-six a guilty man cries 

For repentance and lost is what innocence is 

Same story, same target, different time 

Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the bilnd 

Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind 

Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind 

Same story, same target, different time 

Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the blind 

Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind 

Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind 

[Chorus] 

Your locked down forever 

Could you stand the weather? 

Could you hold it together? 

I can't even explain the pain, know'm saying? 

Your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane 

Forever, imagine behind bars forever 

Could you stand the weather? 

You built for that? Is you cut for that? 

Don't be telling me that you know the pain 

Your life was like a hurricane, yo 

Same story, same target, different time 

Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the blind 

Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind 

Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind 

Same story, same target, different time 

Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the blind 

Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind 

Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind