A Game of Life - Kenny Dope, Lavaba & E. Mallison

And everywhere I go and everywhere I turn

The little things that I hear gets me concerned

Heard talk about Reagan raising tax

Said it’ll trickle down but it never gets back

He said you need the money for the nuclear race

Spent $ 23 billion and we’re still out of place

Got 17 bombs and we just begun

When it boils down to war, all we need is one

Scaring young men with the military draft

They start the trouble but we get in the aft

The world’s getting tough, so confusing at times

And it’s a game called life that’ll make you blow my mind

Listen up fellas!

This is what I see

People make a lot of money, doesn’t know what it mean

There’s guys up in Harlem that the people all know

Through some shady deal, got lots of dough

But they live to get high and too damn fly

Gettin' paid, gettin' laid, just gettin' by

Don’t see opportunity in the soda stand

They pass it all the way to the cocaine man!

Then comes a stranger not from this land

The only difference is he has a plan

He opens up a store and whaddya know

He just bought the apartment building right next door

The world’s getting tough, so confusing at times

And it’s a game called life that’ll make you blow your mind

I need some help, my future plan

Not asking for a hand out, just a hand

Had 12 years of school and with all I’ve learned

I’m so confused about the way I should turn

Computers are the answer, that’s what they say

But everyone I know has chosen this way

Took four years of college and what did I find?

Was the smartest man on the unemployment line

Standing on the corner with nothing to do

'Cept look through the big black, red and blue

It’s not that I want to but I have to survive

And beating the system’s the only way to stay alive

The only thing worse than doing the crime

Is when I get caught, have to do the time

So I praise the Lord, hasn’t forgotten about me

And I’ll keep on looking until I see

Aw yeah

Hey what’s up Scotty, how you doin?

Alright man

Hi Cat

Say Eric, you remember the old lady lived next to me?

What about her?

Did you hear what happened?

What?

Man it was terrible… went something like this

The lady right next door got robbed today

They took all her jewels and all of her pay

And somewhat in a terror they took her life

And now here she was, a policeman’s wife

You stand in the alley 'til you turned your back

When they catch you off guard they come and attack

And with each stupid act sets you back 10 years

And when I walk downtown it’s me that they fear

My daddy used to say be proud and look around

But it’s the brothers not the others that’s tearing us down

Population growing, kids thinking that they’re knowing

Smart to talk about that birth control

First thing we know and now she is showing

And they just found out that the water is cold

One night pleasure for nine months of pain

And one screaming child for the kids to name

Hard times came no matter how they fought

But that’s the way it is, about life you’re taught

The world’s getting tough, so confusing at times

And it’s a game (a game!), a game (a game!), a game called life that’ll make

you blow my mind

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah