One Day As A Lion Lyrics - One Day As A Lion - One Day As A Lion

Blood soaked earth that you call home 

close your eyes but don't sleep 

we comin' like peoples army 

for the people who can't eat 

who work with no sleep 

for the child 

with no shoes on their feet 

a generation who flash heat 

who role up on the banks 

for their cash see 

you're the criminal? 

you got the nerve to ask me 

tear mics till my voice get raspy 

faced flame for five centuries 

and if LA were Baghdad we'd be Iraqi 

with our straps in the backseat 

next to a general tied up 

with shit in his khakis 

best leave my mic alone I'm full grown 

and I'm off to the green zone 

after dark my city's a fuse 

after dark my city's a fuse 

one day I say today we live as a lion 

blood soaked earth that you call home 

I heard this cat got life in the pen 

crossing sand in the back of a truck bed 

twelve deep heard sirens and lights red 

was smacked on his dome with the club of 

a white fed 

no food no water no rights read 

he came north to keep his seeds 

and his wife fed 

in the middle of the darkest night bled 

stepped to the law and said 

you a minuteman wait a minute man 

talk like that might limit your life span