One to the, to the two   Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah   One time as we do it like this, yeah   Grand Puba, common sense      Yeah, yeah, yeah   It's all love y'all, it's all love y'all   It's all love y'all, what you say?   Nigga      Maybe one day we can work it out   Strive to understand what life's about   All it seems to be is sadness and pain   Blood like rain clogs urban drains      When we gonna realize and make the change   And take the blame, erase the shame   'Cause new millennium is knockin' at your door   The new world order's what they got in store      Now I can't stress this enough, life sure is rough   You gotta go through a whole lotta shit just for you to get a little bit   Born into existence where your existence is non-existent   But your persistence overcomes their resistance      Your daily mechanism is your defense   Whether it be past or present tense, don't be dense   I'm droppin' this with common sense as we linger on into the darkness   Poisoned by society where high-anxiety is just one variety      Hatin' each other is another, brotha   I mean I'm really true to the shit, my spit ain't just spit   My duty is to save my people from all of this shit   And if I can get somethin' for doin' that then I'm gon' get and I won't quit      My ways and action manifest in my way of thinkin'   I just can't stand around and do nothin'   While my people sinkin', I told you that I stay true   And I gotta do, what I can do, when I can do      So maybe one day we can work it out   Strive to understand what life's about   All it seems to be is sadness and pain   Blood like rain clogs urban drains      When we gonna realize and make the change   And take the blame, erase the shame   'Cause new millennium is knockin' at your door   The new world order's what they got in store      Grand Pu, I'ma do, what I gotta do, when I can do   It's one for all like Brand Nubian, feedin' the multitudes   Of five loaves, dead men walkin' with lost souls   Some say the games are strange, our ways have been tribal      Since the days of Kemet, now displayed on Bennett   Revolution's like a pussy, I'm tryin' to stay up in it   And our music is a message, though some is afraid to send it   I don't know much about the new world order      II know I got a new daughter, direction and protection   I must provide for her, the moral of the story I'm building   Like O D B say, "We for the children"      Nike make a killin' off us, we kill each other, it kills me to see that   You take a life for gold, nigga did you really need that?   We try to escape the mix tapes, rims and weed sack   And to the new age, they say the women's gonna lead that, so      Maybe one day we can work it out   Strive to understand what life's about   All it seems to be is sadness and pain   Blood like rain clogs urban drains      When we gonna realize and make the change   And take the blame, erase the shame   'Cause new millennium is knockin' at your door   The new world order's what they got in store      Oh say it ain't so   It ain't so   My peoples at a all time low   Double oh Pu'   Nowadays we doin' anything for dough   For the dough doe      Don't you know that knowledge is the note   What?   Know the ledge, don't hit the edge   The negativity pulls us down like gravity   Yup      Devilish ways and actions poisons us like a cavity   Yes sir   As we send this one throughout our whole proximity   Grand Pu' and common strive to come together      In this era of prepaid calling cards, I roll with squads called the Gods   Ignorance is at large, struggles in our backyard   I slap box with life and see we wasn't that hard   Long as you got God, even got gramps off lah      It's stray lies and bullets directed, to lead the village   Of lies disconnected like ghetto phones   Fuck a search through a magazine for better homes   It ain't gonna happen till the devil's gone with the breeze   And niggas get off they knees so      Maybe one day we can work it out   Strive to understand what life's about   All it seems to be is sadness and pain   Blood like rain clogs urban drains      When we gonna realize and make the change   And take the blame, erase the shame   'Cause new millennium is knockin' at your door   The new world order's what they got in store      Black folk come on   Black people come on, come on, oh, oh yeah      Black people come on, I said   Black folk come on   Black people come on   Black people come on   Black people come on, I said   Black folk come on