Black Steel
Tricky

Martina :

I got a letter from the government

The other day

I opened and read it

It said they were suckers

They wanted me for the army or whatever

Picture me given' a damn, I said never

Here is a land that never gave a damn

About a brother like me and myself

Because they never did

I wasn't wit' it, but just that very minute...

It occured to me

The suckers had authority

Cold sweatin' as I dwell in my cell

How long has it been?

They got me sittin' in the state pen

I gotta get out, but that thought was thought before

I contemplated a plan on the cell floor

I'm not a fugitive on the run

But a brother like me begun, to be another one

Public enemy servin' time, they drew the line y'all

To criticize me some crime

I got a letter, I got a letter, I got a letter

Picture me given' a damn, I said never

It occured to me

The suckers had authority

Cold sweatin' as I dwell in my cell

How long has it been?

They got me sittin' in the state pen

I gotta get out, but that thought was thought before

I got a letter from the government

The other day

I opened and read it

It said they were suckers

They wanted me for the army or whatever

Picture me given' a damn, I said never

Here is a land that never gave a damn

About a brother like me and myself

Because they never did

I wasn't wit' it, but just that very minute...

It occured to me

The suckers had authority

Cold sweatin' as I dwell in my cell

How long has it been?

They got me sittin' in the state pen

I gotta get out, but that thought was thought before

I contemplated a plan on the cell floor

I'm not a fugitive on the run

I'm not a fugitive on the run

Tricky :

Many switch in, switch on, switch off X5

Martina :

Nevertheless they cannot understand

That I'm a black man, and I could never be a veteran.

On the strength of situations, I'm real.

I got a raw deal, so I'm lookin' for the steel

Looking for the steel.

I got a letter from the government

The other day

I opened and read it

It said they were suckers

They wanted me for the army or whatever

Picture me given' a damn, I said never

Here is a land that never gave a damn

About a brother like me and myself

Because they never did

I wasn't wit' it, but just that very minute...

It occured to me

The suckers had authority

Cold sweatin' as I dwell in my cell

How long has it been?

They got me sittin' in the state pen

I gotta get out, but that thought was thought before

I contemplated a plan on the cell floor

I'm not a fugitive on the run

I'm not, I'm not

But a brother like me begun, to be another one

Public enemy servin' time, they drew the line y'all

To criticize me some crime

I got a letter from the government

The other day

I opened and read it

It said they were suckers

They wanted me for the army or whatever

Picture me given' a damn, I said never

Here is a land that never gave a damn

About a brother like me and myself

Because they never did

I wasn't wit' it, but just that very minute...

I got a letter from the government

The other day

I opened and read it

It said they were suckers

They wanted me for the army or whatever

Picture me given' a damn, I said never

Here is a land that never gave a damn

Tricky Black Steel


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  #1 Da Woman   360   6 Minutes   A Song For Yukiko   Abbaon Fat Track   Abbaon Fat Tracks   Aftermath   Aftermath ( 1st Version )   Aftermath [Hip Hop Blues]   Analyze Me   Anti Histamine   Anti-Matter   Antihistamine [Forgotten By The World mix]   Antimatter   Bacative   Bad Dream   Bad Dreams   Bad Things   baligaga   Black Coffee   Black Steel [Album Version]   Blue Lines   Bom Bom Diggy   Bombing Bastards   Bonnie & Clyde   Brainiac   Brand New You're Retro   Broken Homes   Bubbles   Bury In The Evidence   Bury the Evidence   Call Me   Car Crash   Carriage For Two   Chaos   Chaos (Tricky And A. Smith)   Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine   Children's Story   Christiansands   coalition   Contradictive   Costanza - Desire   Council Estate   Council Estate [Album Version]   Cradle To The Grave   Crazy Claws   Cross to Bear   Daydreaming   Daydreaming (Tricky's Vox)   Dear God   Demise   Devils Helper   Devotion   Diss Never   Diss Never (Dig Up We History)   Diss Never (feat. Alanis Morissette)   Divine Comedy   Diving Away   Does it   Don't Wait On Me   Enjoy   Eric B and Rakim - My Melody   Eurochild   Every Day   Evolution Revolution Love   Excess   Feed Me   Five Days   Five Man Army   Flynn   For Real   Friend Went To Jail   Gangster Chronicles   Ghetto Klub?   Ghetto Stars   Ghetto Youth   Ghetto Youth ( Live Version )   Ghetto Youth ( Nite Klub Version )   Ghetto Youth ( Something About You Version )   Ghost Town   Ghost Town (Live)   Girls   Give It To 'Em   Give It To Them   Grass Roots   Had You In Me   Headphones   Headphones (Bjork)   Heaven Youth Hell   Heaven, Youth Hell   Hell Is Around the Corner   Hell Is Round The Corner   Hey Love   Hollow   Hot Like A Sauna   How High   How's Your Life   I Be The Prophet   I Be The Prophet   I Be the Prophet [With Drums]   I Like The Girls   I Like The Girls   I Sell Guns   I Sell Guns   I Sell Guns (Kill A Jew Version)   I Sing For You   ice pick   If Only I Knew   Is That Your Life   joseph   Juda   Judas   Karmacoma   Kat Cross - Symphony for Irony   Keep Your Mouth Shut   Kickin'   Le Tigre - Much Finer (Original Version)   Live W \/ Yo Self   Live W/yo Self   Lyrics Of Fury   Make A Change   Makes Me Wanna Die   Makes Me Wanna Die [Album Version]   Massive Attack, Blue Lines   Mellow   Milk   Milk (Performed By Garbage) (The Wicked Tricky Mix...   Mission Accomplished   Money Greedy   moody   Moody Broody Buddhist Camp   Morphine - Potion   Murder Weapon   My Evil Is Strong   My Palestine Girl   Nicotine Love   Nothing Matters   Nothing's Changed   Nothing's Clear   Of Fury   Over Me   Overcome   Parenthesis   Passion Of The Christ   Past Mistakes   Peyote Sings   Piano   Poems   Poems (edit)   Ponderosa   Pop Muzik   Provoked   Psychosis   Pumpkin   Pumpkin Pumpkin   Puppy toy   Real Love (Remix)   Record Companies   School Gates   Scrappy Love   search search survive   Search, Search, Survive   Sex Drive   She Said   She Screams   Silly Games   Silver Tongue - When You Go   Simple Creed   Singin' The Blues   Singing The Blues   Slick 66   slow   Slowly   Smoking Beagles   Somebody's Sins   Something In The Way   Something In The Way (Nirvane Cover)   Stay   Strugglin'   Suffocated Love   Sun Down   Talk To Me   Talk to Me (Angels With Dirty Faces)   Tattoo   Taxi   Tear Out My Eyes   The Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom   The Buzzcocks - You Tear Me Up   The Cure - Lullaby   The Love Cats   The Lovecats   The Moment I Feared   The Moment I Feared ( For You Version )   Time Slippin'   Time To Dance   Together Now   Tongue Tied   Tonite Is A Special Nite   Tonite Is A Special Nite (Chaos Mass Confusion Mix...   Tonite Is A Special Nite (Kaos Mass Confusion Mix)...   Tribal Drums   Tricky - \   Tricky - & Quot;Nothing's Clear & Quot ;   Tricky - Nothing's Clear   Tricky Kid   Tricky Versus Lynx (live)   Tricky Versus Lynx [Live]   Tryzasnice   UK Jamaican   Valentine   Vent   Veronika   wait for god   Wash My Soul   Wash My Soul   We Know   what is wrong   When Doves Cry   When Doves Cry   When you Go   Where I'm From   Who   Wonder Woman   Yoga   You   You Don't   You Don't Wanna   Your Name

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