C'mon.. * echoes *      Swing your partner, I'm about to start the   Dance across the land, the kane will scar the   People of our community, cause we're soon to see   The future of the world to be without unity   So brothers and sisters, let's check our history   To reveal what's been hidden a mystery   Because we're headed for self-destruction   And you know that the government, doesn't give a (fuck) when   One black brother sells another one dope   And he can't cope, so he dies without hope   Many of us live on this level   Mislead victims who dance with the devil      "dance with the devil"   "dance dance with the devil" * repeat both 4x *      Guns are bein bought over the counter like candy   Comin in handy for chumps to act manly   Once before they were only for the law   But no more for sure, lookin at a l.a. gun war   Even in brooklyn, lives are bein tooken   The bronx is dyin while the box is steady cookin   Capsule after capsule, settin a trap to   Destroy all our kind without a hassle   I couldn't kill my brother, about a color   Or cocaine, not even over a rope chain   In this world I'm considered a rap rebel   To correct those who dance with the devil      "dance with the devil"   "dance dance with the devil" * repeat both 4x *      There's no survival   Bodies come in d.o.a, dead on arrival   Everytime someone ships in artillery   Begins the game wonderin who will the killer be   There's no war, so the navy must wanna see   Drugs and guns shift into our country   So we can shoot each other and sell each other death   And imprison all the other ones left   So it's time to start to rise   We can't be uncivilized, we gotta realize   That bein the baddest doesn't matter when your life is had   So let michael jackson be _bad_   No time to devestate, we gotta elevate   To a higher level.. than dancin with the devil      "dance dance with the devil"   "dance with the devil"      This is the dance with the devil!      "dance with the devil"   "dance dance with the devil" * repeat both 4x *      Lookin at the fall of our new generation   Makes me wonder about the emancipation proclamation   We're considered to be free, but did slavery devour   When we're still slaves to mental death and power   Misled and unknowin, people are goin   More and more beneath, instead of growin   +express yourself+, was said by n.w.a.   So stop givin trouble a play   Because those who chose to oppose never rose they all froze   At thirty-two degrees to enemies   That already tricked em and made em fall victim   Mmmmm, mmmmm, mmmmm, just look at them   What we need is peace and love and more love   But I don't see none of the above   So one for the bass and two for the treble   (come on y'all) don't "dance with the devil"      "dance with the devil"   "dance dance with the devil" * repeat both 4x *      "dance with the devil"..   "dance with the devil"..