Waiting For The World To End Lyrics - The Master - Rakim

Yeah, it's the god Rakim 

Word up, I'm blazin' this out to all my comrades 

Ya na mean? From the slums of New York 

To the gutters all over the world, this is for y'all 

Through my travels, I try to take righteous steps 

Because right or left could mean life or death 

No matter how trife it get, my sights is set 

But it's twice the threat when the night is death 

My mental windows refuse to close, they get exposed 

To the neighborhood info where the poison wind blows 

A deadly plague spreadin' negativity, viciously 

Unto every city be in ghetto misery 

Don't let it get to me, the writer be left to die 

But it get mesmerize if it catch your eye 

Shines enormous, from pure revered Kool's and garments 

But it's torment, jealousy drug wars or warring 

Tallying, slowly turnin' into barbarians 

More scary when the whole boulevard's carryin' 

Livin' in the world of sin, my ghetto girls and men 

Waiting for the world to end 

Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel 

In case you didn't know 

Never movin' backwards 

Complicated 

Know what I mean 

Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel 

In case you didn't know 

Never movin' backwards 

Complicated 

Know what I mean 

I see destruction, even little kids trust none 

They bust guns, that's what they get a rush from 

When I see 'em, we build and have a real discussion 

"Yo Ra, what's the jewel of the day? What's up, son?" 

"You got ambition?" Shorty said, "Man listen 

I got demands for livin', can't stand division 

Make grands on my mission, till everything glisten 

Women in the expedition, no plans for prison 

In a vision the city get, 2 milleni G 

Sittin' in my MSC sippin' Hennesy 

Gettin' high and watch life pass me by 

So I asked him," Why?" 

Wit a fast reply he said, "I'm livin' just to die without any feelings 

So I wait here for my Maker till it's time to go 

Wit this dime I know, wit all of her girls and all of my mens 

Waitin' for the world to end" 

Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel 

In case you didn't know 

Never movin' backwards 

Complicated 

Know what I mean 

Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel 

In case you didn't know 

Never movin' backwards 

Complicated 

Know what I mean 

Shorty was taught to keep his head to the sky and never cry 

But the streets left him to die, now it's death in his eye 

Livin' a sin of hitmen, a sinister grin 

From beginning to end, in it to win 

Evil rebels, doin' what we doin' in the ghetto 

Thinkin' if we was thorough we can deceive the devil 

You can't win, your life be end, try again 

Shorty said, "Why we born again to die again?" 

That's what I said when I realized I had a gift 

To uplift and be one of Allah's advocates 

Teach the youth and speak the truth 

Show 'em what peace can do when ill reach for you 

And my reward won't be jewels or cheese, it's even better 

I can be one of the greatest MC's ever 

If I tell 'em they intelligent women and great men 

And live, stop waitin' for the world to end 

Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel 

In case you didn't know 

Never movin' backwards 

Complicated 

Know what I mean 

Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel 

In case you didn't know 

Never movin' backwards 

Complicated 

Know what I mean 

I'm ragin', rippin' up the stage an' 

Don't it sound amazin', know what I mean 

Don't it sound amazin', know what I mean 

Rakim