Nighttrain Lyrics - Apocalypse 91...the Enemy Strikes Black - Public Enemy

Land of the free 

But the skin I'm in identifies me 

So the people around me 

Energize me 

Callin' all aboard this train ride 

Talkin' 'bout raw hardcore 

Leavin' frauds on the outside 

But the bad thing is anyone can ride the train 

And the reason 

For that is 'cause we look the same 

Lookin' all around at my so called friend 

Light skin to the brown 

The black 

Here we go again 

Homey over there knows Keith an 

But he be thiefin' 

I don't trust him 

Rather bust 'em 

Up out goes his hand and I cough 

He once stole from me 

Yeah I wanna cut it off 

The black thing is a ride I call the nighttrain 

It rides the good and the bad 

We call the monkey trained 

Trained to attack the black it's true 

'Cause some of them look just like you 

Stayin' on the scene 

Sittin' on the train 

See all the faces 

Look about the same 

There go the sellout who's takin' a ride like Cargo 

'Cause he deal 

The keys from Key Largo 

Runnin' Nat narcotic 

By George he got it 

Takin' makin' the G erotic 

And the fiends they scheme 

So he can put 'em down 

But his method is wreck 'em 

Put 'em in tha ground 

Got tha nerve as hell 

To yell brother man 

He ain't black man 

'Cause he ate his Pac Man 

Known to murder his own 

Traitor on the phone 

Ridin' the train 

Self-hater trained 

To sell pain 

The master's toy 

Little boy 

Hard to avoid he look wit' it but he null 'n' void 

'Cause he ridin' the train you think he down for the cause 

'Cause his face looks just like yours 

The conductor, track the structure overstood 

Nighttrain the plain, little engine that could 

One express so let's next stops Mecca 

A place to face to make a black man better 

CL and Chuck D, we don't talk rubbage 

But just like a slave, we gotta ride wit the luggage 

On the nighttrain 

More of the same insane who sayin' 

Like flowin' like nighttrain 

Runnin' the pain of the black reign 

You look, you laugh 

You doubt and go out 

And I'm gone 

But the bass goes on 

To talk the talk, but walk the walk 

The king of New York 

Crack a lack attack the black 

To crack the back 

Once again I test a friend wit' sincerity 

Or consider him an enemy 

Who am I to tell a lie 

Rather push the Bush 

Hope da cracker get crushed 

I'm rollin' wit Rush 

Leader of the bum rush 

Russian I ain't 

Spreadin' like paint 

Lookin' at the put I got 

And its kickin' 

But it ain't chicken 

But it's livin' for a city 

So sick 'n' tired 

Of a scene buckwild, piled in a file 

Senile or chile 

They said it never been no worser 

Than this, I'm on the nighttrain 

They hope ya don't miss it 

Give ya what dey gotta give you just go 

You musn't just put your 

Trust in every brother yo 

Some don't give a damn 

'Cause they the other man 

Worse than a bomb 

Posin' as Uncle Toms 

Disgracin' the race 

Blowin' up the whole crew 

Wit' some of them lookin' 

Just like you