Same story, same target, different time      Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the bilnd      Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind      Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind            Same story, same target, different time      Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the blind      Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind      Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind            [black thought]      Yo, talk about paying the ultimate price      Hurricane been incarcerated all of his life      Started out at like twelve      Trapped in a belly of hell      Grew into a man inside of a cell      Yo, anger just swell up      At a early age that develop      Hot head and now it ain't shit y'all could tell him      They said he's on a road to become a felon      But instead he swung blows that'll spilt your melon      He did his thing and was the king of the ring, undisputed      Started making noise but they tried to mute it      They put him through it      For him to make the system look stupid, [yo]      They rather look you in the face and shoot it      And leave your spot looted [or what]      Or leave your whole life blank futured and caught      When you scream at it and do it      With sweat leaking from the outline of your silhouette      Don't understand the point that you at      Or how the hell you came to it?       Flashback to images of that night, out in patterson      They pulled him over heading home from a gathering      And when they told him the charge it kind of baffled him      Murder in the first for the champ, we on that again?             Chorus            Hurricane      Accuse a hurricane      Ain't change a damned shame      It's life for hurricane, hurricane            [black thought]      *overtop of sung chorus*      Forever, imagine your locked down forever      Could y'all stand the weather?       Could you hold it together?       You tell me that you know the pain      Yo, imagine if your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane      Forever, imagine your locked down forever      Could y'all stand the weather?       You built for that weather?       Yo, know what'm saying?       Know what'm saying?             [common]      You gotta fight for what you believe in      Nobody knows the troubles seen      This flick left me wondering      'what can become of kings and young kids? '      Summer dream deferred, incident occured, freedom blurred      A freedom that would only be retrieved again in words, later on      The cops, y'all know what they be on      A nigga's life is like a field that they play upon, away and gone from      Natural lifer, a soul he had to fight,      Learn it himself, sleep days, stay up half the night      Amongst dead man walking, he got afterlife exercising,      Developing his knack to write      Never leaving his cell, in this world he trapped himself      What he loved on the outside world, detached himself      You know the cards blacks get dealt by the system      He drew a picture of freedom with many dimensions      This picture proved to be bigger than black and white      A young soul named lesra brought him back to life      It's amazing to a man what a book could do      And how certain books seem to look for you      This is the story of a champion's fall and rise      The story left me wiping my eyes      Peace ru                  Chorus            Hurricane      Accuse a hurricane      Ain't change a damned shame      It's life for hurricane, hurricane            [black thought]      *overtop of sung chorus*      Yo, yo, forever, imagine your locked down forever      Could y'all stand the weather?       Could you hold it together?       You tell me that you know the pain      Yo, imagine if your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane      Forever and ever yo, locked down forever      Could you stand the weather?       Yo, yo I can't even explain the pain      Just imagine if your life was like a hurricane            [mos def]      Yes, I am the inescapable, the irresistable,      The unnegotiable, the unchallenged [who dat? ]      I am time      I scroll in measurements, control the elements,      I hold the evidence, I tell the story [say what? ]      I am time      I know no prejudice, I bare no sentiments      For wealth or settlement, I move forward [who you? ]      I am time      You can't recover me, conceal or smuggle me,      Retreat or run from me, crawl up or under me,      You can't do much for me besides serve      Me well and have good dividends returned to you      Or attempt to kill me off and have me murder you      Many have wasted me but now they are facing me,      Treated me unfaithfully and now endure me painfully      Plaintively, I wait to see what history will shape to be,      Who's hearts will never die inside the sake of me      Angel's scribe the page for me,      Keep a full account of all the names for me      And make a special mark for hurricane who (? ) patiently            Chorus            Hurricane      Accuse a hurricane      Ain't change a damned shame      It's life for hurricane, hurricane            [black thought]      *overtop of sung chorus*      Yo, yo, a hurricane forever,      Imagine your locked down forever      Could you stand the weather?       Could you hold it together?       I can't even explain the pain      Imagine if your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane      Forever, imagine your locked down forever and ever, ever      Could you hold it together?       Yo, can't explain the pain with words, know'm saying?       Just imagine if your life was like a hurricane            [verse 4]      The clouds clashed and the heaven's gave birth to star      God placed it in a man on the day he was born      Convicted minutes after, a true natural disaster      Framed for manslaughter, the hurricane carter rising      From out the south water, like torrential rains      In the ring no opponent escaped unscathed      You can't believe the world we live in's injust      All I see is more proof, there's no place for us      They had my man carter locked in a cage, like an animal      Drive him to the point where the mind work mechanical      Or works by remote control      It was done to all of us, they tapped directly into our soul      Either it's sing-sing, or it's bars around your mind      There's no where to run, no where to hide      In a six-by-six a guilty man cries      For repentance and lost is what innocence is                  Same story, same target, different time      Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the bilnd      Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind      Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind            Same story, same target, different time      Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the blind      Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind      Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind                  Chorus            Hurricane      Accuse a hurricane      Ain't change a damned shame      It's life for hurricane, hurricane            [black thought]      *overtop of sung chorus*      Your locked down forever      Could you stand the weather?       Could you hold it together?       I can't even explain the pain, know'm saying?       Your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane      Forever, imagine behind bars forever      Could you stand the weather?       You built for that? is you cut for that?       Don't be telling me that you know the pain      Your life was like a hurricane, yo            Same story, same target, different time      Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the bilnd      Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind      Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind            Same story, same target, different time      Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the blind      Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind      Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind