By The Time I Get To Arizona Lyrics - Apocalypse 91...the Enemy Strikes Black - Public Enemy

I'm countin' down to the day deservin' fittin' for a king 

I'm waitin' for the time when I can get to Arizona 

'Cause my money's spent on the goddamn rent 

Neither party is mine not the jackass or the elephant 

20 thousand nig niggy nigas in the corner 

Of the cell block but they come from California 

Population none in the desert and sun 

Wit' a gun cracker runnin' things under his thumb 

Starin' hard at the postcards isn't it odd and unique? 

Seein' people smile wild in the heat 120 degree 

'Cause I wanna be free 

What's a smilin' fact when the whole state's racist 

Why want a holiday dame it 'cause I wanna 

So what if I celebrate it standin' on a corner 

I ain't drinkin' no 40, thinkin' time wit' a nine 

Until we get some land call me the trigger man 

Lookin' for the governor, huh he ain't lovin' ya 

But here to trouble ya, he's rubbin' ya wrong 

Get the point come along he can get to the joint 

I urinated on the state while I was kickin' this song 

Yeah, he appear to be fair, the cracker over there 

He try to keep it yesteryear 

The good ol' days, the same ol' ways 

That kept us dyin', yes, you me myself and I indeed 

What he need is a nosebleed read between the lines 

Then you see the lie politically planned 

But understand that's all she wrote 

When we see the real side that hide behind the vote 

They can't understand why he the man, I'm singin' 'bout a king 

They don't like it when I decide to mike it 

Wait I'm waitin' for the date 

For the man who demands respect 'cause he was great c'mon 

I'm on the one mission 

To get a politician 

To honor or he's a gonner 

By the time I get to Arizona 

Well, I got 25 days to do it 

If a wall in the sky just watch me go thru it 

'Cause I gotta do what I gotta do 

PE number one, gets the job done 

When it's done and over was because I drove'er 

Thru all the static not stick but automatic 

That's the way it is he gotta get his, talkin' MLK 

Gonna find a way make the state pay 

Lookin' for the day 

Hard as it seems this ain't no damn dream 

Gotta know what I mean 

It's team against team catch the light beam 

So I pray, I pray everyday, I do and praise Jah, The Maker 

Lookin' for culture I got but not here from Jah maker 

Pushin' and shakin' the structure bringin' down the Babylon 

Hearin' the sucker that make it hard for the brown 

The hard Boulova, I need now more than ever now 

Who's sittin' on my freedah' opressor people beater 

Piece of the pick, we picked a piece of land that we deservin' now 

Reparation a piece of the nation and damn he got the nerve 

Another niga they say and classify, we want too much 

My peep plus the whole nine is mine don't think I even double dutch 

Here's a brother my attitude hit 'em, hang 'em high 

I'm blowin' up the 90s started tickin' 86 

When the blind get a mind 

Better start and earn while we sing it now 

There will be the day we know those down and who will go 

Go go go go 

By the time I get to Arizona 

By the time I get to Arizona 

By the time I get to Arizona