Advance - Boogie Down Productions

Because we got to advance!

We got to advance!

There’s nothing in our lives ever happened by chance!

We got to advance!

We got to advance!

We have got to advance!

The grand incredible Scott La Rock!

Every generation after every generation

All the world nation headed for annihilation

I say annihilation but I mean disintegration

An absolute wipe-off from the face of every nation

If you comprehend, you’re allowed to ask a question

What could be the meaning of degeneration lesson

Lesson 1, lesson 2, lesson 3, lesson 4

A newly presented rap — a nuclear war

We have elevated far beyond the Rapper’s Delight

So party people close your eyes and use the mind for the sight

We must understand the basic complications of life

Before the atom is split and the world is destroyed

If you’re jamming to the sound, this is what I employ

To live it understand it and the knowledge of joy

This is the rhyme for the time, elevated from the mind

If you comprehend well it’s a definite sign

Of the positive and negative electrical force

Of the whole world today, is on an advance course

C and O with the S H2O PO4

Can all be destroyed by a nuclear war

So to the black, white, Rican, Indian and Oriental

Muslims, Christians, Rastas, Jews, Gentiles

We’ve got to advance, we have got to advance

When the situation changes, we don’t stand a chance

Cause every generation after every generation

We got to find ourselves in some worldwide celebration

Not with registration or a cotton plantation

But different presentation like more communication

The kids in graduation with lesser aggrivation

Will tell the other kids of this higher education

This higher education, which is really observation

Or more self-realization which will lead to relaxation

Not evacuation for fear of bomb mutation

Or packing helpless families send some army transportation

This army transportation has sent abbreviation

U.S.A., which means U Start Annihilation

I seem to read the phrase while I’m in this transportation

And those who think of war need to practice masturbation

I mean what I say cause I say what I mean

So listen to my voice, yes we have a choice

Because we got to advance!

We got to advance!

There’s nothing in our lives ever happened by chance!

We got to advance!

We got to advance!

We have got to advance!

The grand incredible Scott La Rock!

Every generation after every generation

The American nation is hit with starvation

The exploitation, the quick sensation

Can only lead your mind to destroy the creation

Creation with the mind — destruction with the knife

Can only lead this planet to this present way of life

As you analyze the words to read the situation

You find yourself well off with this useful information

Information granted but your brain goes bling

And like the lights in computers the brain now thinks

From the mind, the omnipresent, to the underpaid peasant

The brain can piece the problems from the past and present

Got celebrity three, the future unknown

Information give us

As you plug into the senses, the knowledge of the brain

The wise of the brain represented by the vein

down to the letter

The heart, liver, stomach, kidney, lungs, etcetera

As you put them all together systematically

You got the body composition for you and me

So party people analyze the way I walk

There’s a systematic action to the way I talk

This can go for any verse

but it’s too complex

So, what happens next as I elaborate

On the name and the crew that we create

Because we got to advance!

We got to advance!

There’s nothing in our lives ever happened by chance!

We got to advance!

We got to advance!

We have got to advance!

The grand incredible Scott La Rock!