Lately I've been in a life like limbo   Looking out of a smudged up window   We're not sure where our lives are going   Friends, it's summer outside but yet we're snowed in      Don't know where our next dollar's coming from   Living the life of a poor musician   Headliner's strong so he keeps his 9 to 5   Cutting brothers' hair as a means of staying alive      If it wasn't for the rhythm   I think we would have given up by now   This system has gotten the best of me   Now I pray for God to invest in me      My dignity, invest his glory   Give me the strength so I can finish the story   Keep on searching for the right way to go out   'Cuz going out is what it's all about      You can't be passive, gotta be active   Can't go with what looks attractive   Gotta learn all I can while I'm able   Headliner expresses his feeling on those turntables      When we get our chance   To make a good living of the music we program   We don't sell out just to be sold out   Brothers and sisters, do you know what I'm yapping about ?      'Cuz if they take away our contract   We still got talent and we still got contacts   'Cuz we're worked real hard to get this far   We're catching the bus before we bought the car, ya see      Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day   Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever   Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day   Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever      Got to get political   Political I gotta get   Grown but can't hold my own   So this government needs to be overthrown      Brothers with the A Ks and the 9 Ms   Need to learn how to correctly shoot 'em   Save those rounds for a revolution   Poor whites and blacks bum rushing the system      But I tell you ain't no room for gangstaz   'Cuz gangstaz do dirty work and get pimped by mobsters   Some fat Italian eating pasta 'n lobster   Brothers getting jailed and mobsters own the coppers      So you you want out of the ghetto   First the political prisoners must be let go   And you must let go of your power master   My liquor got to your powerful master      You'll never get out without much discipline   Raise your fist but also raise your children   So when you die the movement moves on   'Cuz with revolution, ain't no future in front y'all      Direct your anger, love, nothing's ever built on hate   Instead love, love your life, tackle the government   The spooks that break down the door are Heaven sent   And my phrase went      Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day   Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever   Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day   Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever      Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day   Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever   Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day   Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever   Alright      Rhythm makes your body move   Rhythm makes your mind move   Rhythm makes your elbows groove   Rhythm makes that behind move      Rhythm makes the people move   Rhythm makes you want to move   Rhythm makes your mind soothe   You know next stop is Jerusalem