Gang Starr - Cause & Effect lyrics
[guru]
You ain't livin right punkI'll have to school you
Not rule youbut I'll say yo you fool yourself
When you try to deny and defy written laws
This means your cause has lost
Think about ittake the timeand even ponder longer
Then let your mind start to wander
Go black and track the factsabout all of your mistakes
It only takes to one to make fate
Pick up your lifeclean up your actand get a legal plan
You canor be an evil man
Caughtand then you claim you're not responsible
The choice was yourswhen the fun's gone you will realize
That you don't get somethin for nothinwhy you bluffin?
Others even brothers are stuffin their pockets
With honest cashthey'll laughso don't knock it
Jock itcause the guru must stop it
I'll jab yousmack youcrack -- you're demolished
You must acknowledge -- life is like a college in itself
Get a degree in reality
Or you will be upon it like a lawn you'll be walked on
Gonenever to see or be the same again
Friendcause the time you spend
Bringin down yourselfbringin down the pace
Bringin down your friendsbringin down the race
Will have your life in a wreck
And homeboy life is cause and effect
* primo scratches *
[guru]
Exactly what you put in boyyou will get out of it
The energy released comes backthere is no doubt of it
So when you thrive to connive and contrive foolish deeds
This means you'll bleed from greed
Dig the rhyme dig the thoughtof what'll happen
You're nappinyou're gonna fall off the map 'n'
Lie outand cry outwhy? you got the short end of the stick
Cause you're too quick to run tricks
Open your mindwiden your sightget out of your rut
Moveand get the lead out of your butt
Cause you can't live without a plan to get freshed chump
And you shouldn't stand to let
Anything sway you from the path you know is truthful
Chillcause you know the chosen youth will
Take overand control the whole so don't blow it
Know itcause the guru must show it
I'll teach youreachin each so you're enlightened
Emcees are frightenedby what I write in my songs
Cause I express what I manifest
While some of you fall down to the ground with breakdowns
Never to see or be the same again
Friendcause the time you spend
Bringin down yourselfbringin down the pace
Bringin down your friendsbringin down the race
Will have your life in a wreck
And homeboy life is cause and effect
* primo scratches *
[guru]
You're still playin games lameI'll have to end you
Straight to the gate of fateso you can claim your doom
Will you decay as you pay in repentance
I light my sentence like incense
Breathe inexpel your fears as you marvel
Heed what I feedyou won't starve you'll make it
But if you don'tyou will be finished
You'll dissapearyou will diminish
Never to see or be the same again
Friendcause the time you spend
Bringin down yourselfbringin down the pace
Bringin down your friendsbringin down the race
Will leave you bugged and upset
Cause homeboy life is cause and effect
Cause and effect!!
* primo scratches *
[guru]
Once againpremier and the guru
It's like that
