Can't Truss It Lyrics - Public Enemy

Here come the drums 

Here come the drums 

Bass in your face 

Not an eight track 

Gettin' it good to the wood 

So the people give you some a dat 

Reactin' to the fax 

That I kick and it stick 

And it stay around 

Pointin' to the joint put the Buddha down 

Goin' goin' gettin' to the roots 

Ain't givin' it up 

So turn me loose 

But then again I got a story 

That's harder than the hardcore 

Cost of the holocaust 

I'm talin' 'bout the one still goin' on 

I know, where I'm from, not dum diddie dum 

From the base motherland, the place of the drum 

Invaded by the wack diddie wack 

Fooled the black, left us faded 

King and chief probably had a big beef 

Because of dat now I grit my teeth 

So here's a song to the strong 

'Bout a shake of a snake 

And the smile went along wit dat 

Can't truss it 

Can't truss it 

Can't truss it 

Can't truss it 

Can't truss it 

Kickin' wicked rhymes 

Like a fortune teller 

'Cause the wickedness done by Jack 

Where everybody at 

Divided and sold 

For liquor and the gold 

Smacked in the back 

For the other man to mack 

Now the story that I'm kickin' is glory 

Little rock where they be 

Dockin' this boat 

No hope I'm shackled 

Plus gang tackled 

By the other hand swingin' the rope 

Wearin' red, white and blue, Jack and his crew 

The guy's authorized beat down for the brown 

Man to the man, each one so it teach one 

Born to terrorize, sisters and every brother 

One love who said it, I know Whodini sang it 

But the hater taught hate 

That's why we gang bang it 

Beware of the hand 

When it's comin' from the left 

I ain't trippin' just watch ya step 

Can't truss it 

Can't truss it 

Can't truss it 

Can't truss it 

Can't truss it 

Can't truss it 

Can't truss it 

Can't truss it 

Can't truss it 

An' I judge everyone, one by the one 

Look here come the judge 

Watch it here he come now 

I can only guess what's happ'nin' 

Years ago, he woulda been 

The ship's captain 

Gettin' me bruised on a cruise 

What I got to lose, lost all contact 

Got me layin' on my back 

Rollin' in my own leftover 

When I roll over, I roll over in somebody else's 

90 damn days on a slave ship 

Count 'em fallin' off 

1, 2, 3, 4 hun'ed at a time 

Blood in the wood and it's mine 

I'm chokin' on spit feelin' pain 

Like my brain bein' chained 

Still gotta give it what I got 

It's hot in the day, it's cold in the night 

But I thrive to survive, I pray to God to stay alive 

My attitude boils up inside 

And that ain't it, you think I'll every quit 

Still I pray to get my hands 'round 

The neck of the man wit' the whip 

3 months pass, they brand a label on my ass 

To signify, owned 

I'm on the microphone 

Sayin' 1555, how I'm livin' 

We been livin' here 

Livin' ain't the word 

I been givin' 

Haven't got 

Classify us in the have-nots 

Fightin' haves 

'Cause it's all about money 

When it comes to armageddon 

Mean I'm gettin' mine 

Here I am turn it over Sam 

427 to the year 

Do you understand? 

That's why it's hard 

For the black to love the land 

Once again 

Bass in your face 

Not an eight track 

Gettin' it good to the wood 

So the people 

Give you some a dat 

Reactin' to the fax 

That I kick and it stick 

And it stay around 

Pointin' to the joint, put the Buddha down 

Goin', goin', gettin' to the roots 

Ain't givin' it up 

So turn me loose 

But then again I got a story 

That's harder than the hardcore 

Cost of the holocaust 

I'm talin' 'bout the one still goin' on 

I know, where I'm from, not dum diddie dum 

From the base motherland, the place of the drum 

Invaded by the wack diddie wack 

Fooled the black, left us faded 

King and chief probably had a big beef 

Because of dat now I grit my teeth 

So here's a song to the strong 

'Bout a shake of a snake 

And the smile went along wit dat 

Can't truss it 

Can't truss it 

Can't truss it 

Can't truss it 

Can't truss it 

Can't truss it 

Can't truss it 

Can't truss it 

Can't truss it 

Can't truss it 

Can't truss it 

Can't truss it 

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