Blood soaked earth that you call home   close your eyes but don't sleep   we comin' like peoples army   for the people who can't eat   who work with no sleep   for the child    with no shoes on their feet   a generation who flash heat   who role up on the banks    for their cash see   you're the criminal?    you got the nerve to ask me   tear mics till my voice get raspy   faced flame for five centuries   and if LA were Baghdad we'd be Iraqi   with our straps in the backseat   next to a general tied up    with shit in his khakis   best leave my mic alone I'm full grown   and I'm off to the green zone      after dark my city's a fuse   after dark my city's a fuse   one day I say today we live as a lion      blood soaked earth that you call home      I heard this cat got life in the pen   crossing sand in the back of a truck bed   twelve deep heard sirens and lights red   was smacked on his dome with the club of    a white fed   no food no water no rights read   he came north to keep his seeds    and his wife fed   in the middle of the darkest night bled   stepped to the law and said   you a minuteman wait a minute man   talk like that might limit your life span      after dark my city's a fuse   one day i say today we live as a lion   and when our cubs grow    we'll show you what war is good for