Social Debt

Song: Social Debt

Album: Run With It

Artist: G8

Written by Toussaint Morrison

Released October 26, 2006

ref: http://g8band.bandcamp.com/track/social-debt

Never once have I walked without thinkin’ to dance

Never once have I talked withoutu thinkin’ to chant

Well represented by my skin’s complexion

On lock through good friends and connections

We push the fader to express the creative art form

We handle to hammer apart norms

Hardcore implies that the surface is soft

So we keep our centers balanced with the ground that we walk on

Sometimes I feel the city breathin’ through me sneakers 

Whisperin’ a melody that we drop beats to

My love jones seeps in and drowns in the deep end

Of streets that separate me from the earth with cement

Some scream “hype on” meanwhile I write on

Through many dusks and dawns until the fight’s won

Until then this victory’s a mystery to me

On this journey takin’ in everything that isn’t me

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Chorus

Through pens, papers, guns, and streets

(Sometimes we conflict, but we agree with the beat)

Whether it’s then, now, war or peace

(We shoot different ammunition, but at the same dream)

So get ya aim right, brotha- get your aim right, yes

Get ya aim right, sista – get your aim right, yes

Get ya aim right, kid- get your aim right, yes

My bullet is my word and I make sure it hits

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Never once have I biked without thinkin’ to biff

Never once have a I drank without thinkin’ to trip

What often shoots doesn’t often hit

I’ve watched sane and crazy both walk off the cliff

This ain’t a case’a sayin’ “hey it’s all good don’t worry”

While gunshots and money connect like Canterbury

It busied you to notice, orderin’ your peach cobbler dish

Stressed about your mazda’s dent

We don’t pick sides, we live where they plot the fence

Takin’ it normal authority has a common skin

Better save what you make before the option’s thin

It’s gonna take more space than the projects built

The hospitals, the Gaza Strip, and every square foot of Riverside Plaza, kid.

I throw down for tomorrow and I walk against

A globe spinnin’ off the axis tryin’ to profit with

Chorus