[Verse 1] Land of the free but the skin Im in identifies me So the people around me energize me Callin all aboard this train ride Talkin bout raw hardcore, leavin frauds on the outside But the bad thing is anyone can ride the train And the reason for that is cause we look the same Lookin all around at my socalled friend Light skin to the brown, the black, here we go again Homey over there knows Keith and but he be thiefin I dont trust him, rather bust em up Out goes his hand and I cough He once stole from me yeah, I wanna cut it off The black thing is a ride I call the nighttrain It rides the good and the bad, we call the monkey trained Trained to attack the black its true Cause some of them look just like you [Verse 2] Stayin on the scene, sittin on the train See all the faces look about the same There go the sellout whos takin a ride like Cargo Cause he deal the keys from Key Largo Runnin Nat narcotic, by George he got it Takin makin the G erotic And the fiends they scheme so he can put em down But his method is wreck em, put em in tha ground Got tha nerve as hell to yell brother man He aint black man cuz he ate his Pac Man Known to murder his own, traitor on the phone Ridin the train, selfhater trained to sell pain The masters toy, little boy Hard to avoid he look wit it but he null n void Cause he ridin the train you think he down for the cause Cause his face looks just like yours CL Smooth The conductor, track the structure overstood Nighttrain the plain, little engine that could One express so lets next stops Mecca A place to face to make a black man better CL and Chuck D, we dont talk rubbage But just like a slave, we gotta ride wit the luggage On the nighttrain [Verse 3] More of the same insane who sayin like flowin Like nighttrain, runnin the pain of the black reign You look, you laugh, you doubt and go out and Im gone But the bass goes on To talk the talk, but walk the walk, the king of New York Crack a lack attack the black to crack the back Once again I test a friend with sincerity Or consider him an enemy Who am I to tell a lie Rather push the Bush Hope da cracker get crushed Im rollin wit Rush Leader of the bum rush Russian I aint spreadin like paint Lookin at the put I got and its kickin But it aint chicken but its livin for a city So sick and tired Of a scene buckwild, piled in a file Senile or chile They said it never been no worser than this Im on the nighttrain, they hope ya dont miss it Give ya what they gotta give you just go You musnt just put your trust in every brother yo Some dont give a damn Cause they the other man Worse than a bomb Posin as Uncle Toms Disgracin the race and blowin up the whole crew With some of them lookin just like you
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