The Tower-ICE-T

[ti:The Tower]
[ar:Ice-T]
[al:The Complete Sire Albums 1987 - 1991]
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[00:00.00]The Tower - ICE-T
[00:20.24]I'm rolling up in a big gray bus
[00:21.82]And I'm shackled down
[00:23.13]Myself that's who I trust
[00:24.54]The minute I arrived
[00:25.79]Some sucker got hit
[00:26.92]Shanked ten times
[00:28.33]Behind some bullshit
[00:29.68]Word in the pen the fool was a snitch
[00:31.93]So without hesitatin
[00:32.89]I made a weapon quick
[00:34.21]If found a sharp piece of metal
[00:35.49]Taped it to a stick
[00:36.87]Then a bullhorn sounds
[00:37.83]That means it's time for chow
[00:39.43]My first prison meal
[00:40.29]The whole feeling was foul
[00:41.76]It wasn't quite my style
[00:43.03]But my stomach growled
[00:44.28]So I flushed the sh*t down
[00:45.57]And hit the weight pile
[00:46.92]The brothers was swole
[00:48.02]The attitudes was cold
[00:49.17]Felt the tension on the yard
[00:50.52]From the young and the old
[00:51.82]But I'm a warrior
[00:52.97]I got my ground to hold
[00:54.18]So I studied the inmates
[00:55.28]To see who hd the power
[00:56.74]The whites the blacks
[00:57.87]Or just the gun tower
[01:18.77]In a blink of an eye a riot broke out
[01:21.07]Blacks put their backs to the wall
[01:22.51]Cause it was north and south
[01:23.86]A gun man shouts
[01:24.96]And everybody had doubt
[01:25.83]Until the bullets started flyn
[01:27.48]Took two men out
[01:28.54]Thn they rushed everybody
[01:29.78]Back to their cells
[01:31.16]Damn the pen is different than
[01:32.72]The county jail
[01:33.58]I'm in a one man cell
[01:34.78]I know my lifes on a scale
[01:36.16]I wonder if that gunman is going to hell
[01:38.52]This is my second day
[01:39.73]I got a ten year stay
[01:41.18]I learned my first lesson
[01:42.39]In the pen you don't plaay
[01:43.69]I saw a brother kill another
[01:44.85]Cause he said he was gay
[01:46.11]But thats the way it is
[01:47.37]It been that way for years
[01:48.55]And when his body hit the ground
[01:49.75]I heard a couple of cheers
[01:51.00]It kind of hurt me inside
[01:52.13]That they were glad he died
[01:53.46]And I ask myself
[01:54.55]Just who had the power
[01:56.15]The whites the blacks
[01:57.37]Or just the gun tower
[02:18.07]You see the whites got a thing
[02:19.24]The call white pride
[02:20.73]The blacks got the muscle
[02:21.89]Mexicans got the knives
[02:23.22]You better be wise
[02:24.38]You wanna stay alive
[02:25.59]Go toe to toe with a sucka
[02:27.07]No matter wht size
[02:28.00]A fool tried to sweat me
[02:29.17]Actn like he was hard
[02:30.19]I stuck him twice in the neck
[02:31.34]And left him dead in the yard
[02:33.08]It was smooth how I did it
[02:34.46]Cause nobody could see
[02:35.45]With my jacket on my arm
[02:36.89]And my knife on the side of me
[02:38.45]Bam bam it was over
[02:39.47]Another one bites the dust
[02:40.65]I went crazy in the pen
[02:41.84]With nobody to trust
[02:42.93]Benchn ten quarters so I'm hard to sweat
[02:45.50]Used a tat gun and engrved my set
[02:48.09]They call me a lifer
[02:49.24]Cause I'm good as dead
[02:50.49]I live in the hole so the floors my bed
[02:52.92]And I ask myself again
[02:54.67]Who has the power
[02:55.55]The whites the blacks
[02:56.57]Or just the gun tower