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 finnish the story   Keep on searching for the right way to go out   coz going out is what it's all about   huh! 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 ?   Coz if they take away our contract   we still got talent and we still got contacts   Coz we're worked real hard to get this far   We're catching the bus before we bought the car   Ya see !      [CHORUS:]   [Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day   Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever] (2x)      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 AKs and the 9 MMs   need to learn how to correctly shoot'em   Save those rounds for a revolution   Poor whites and blacks bumrushing the system   But I tell you: Ain't no room for gangstaz   Coz ganstaz 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   You'll never get out without much discipline   Raise your fist but also raise your children   So when you die the movement moves on   Coz with revolution, ain't no future in front o' y'all   haha! 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...      [CHORUS] (2x)      Alright !      Rhythm makes you move your body, rhythm makes you move your mind   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, next stop is Jerusalem