How I Won The War
Atmosphere

The first time they came to get me for their war

They were easy to play I acted dumb and grinned

Contrary to what we might assume everybody loves a dummy

Cause you aint gotta squint when the lights are dim

They read their papers out loud to me

I smiled and nodded my head up and down careful not to make a sound

They told me when and where I'm supposed to arrive

Never gave a second thought to whether or not I would oblige

I imaged the look on their face as they looked

At their face of their clocks, tapping their foot as they wait

How long would it take to realize

I must have skated or got lost on the way before they called it a day

fuck that, I'm on the other side of the city

In a bed breathing heavy with my favourite betty

And I'll be damned if I'm gonna catch a slug for you

So I changed my name to slug so that yall would never catch me

The second time they found me they wanted to drown me

Yes man doesnt't't't like being made into mice

Started running their shmeal about love and dedication

How I should feel, as if I owe their nation my life

Look boy they say, don't you love your freedom?

I told them freedom is a road seldom travelled by the multitudes

And I said they were suckers, as I pulled out my mess

And started jerking off right there on top of their desk

Picture this, me standing their digging my fist

Like, what what what? Bought to bust on a nut on their list

They cursed and gave me an informal dispersal

But I'm like sir wont you let me get my rocks off first yo?

Its weird how acting like a hype islike being a hype

Its just a thin line that separates the two

And now my mind likes to walk both sides of the stripe

If only I could manifest my fate for the way I do

The third time they came was a charm

And I was tired and tried barely hanging from this yarn

The last two times I lost my path and my mind

What the hell I might as well as loose the farm

Take me, make me, train me, break me

Teach me to hold my anger like a lady

Show me the right way to save these babies

Throw me into this world that hates me

Here I am in a land that don't feel foreign

Following a plan, trying to find my portion

Still lost and still fondling my foreskin

Make me into a man but I still feel like an orphan

But I learned how to stand behind a purpose

The world is a circus and I'm a soldier guarding the tent

Weapon in hand, I represent and defend my hip hop nation until the end

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the hip hop cultures four elements

And to the originality in which it stands the Zulu nation under god

Peace love unity and justice for all (x7)


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