Children, groovin, women, confusion   Then go away, it’s time to understand   Everyone’s got to make a livin   Children, groovin, women, confusion   Then go away, it’s time to understand   Everyone’s got to make a livin      Nineteen-ninety-two and, you and I were fightin   Lapd beatings got the whole world frontin   My man rodney king and the reginald ? deeney?   You could look for justice but I bet you won’t find any      Because people getting beatin, news keep repeatin   Chaos and anger, just surely peakin      Yo everybody’s runnin, some of them are gunnin   Avalanche the block, feel the anger, wantin something   ’cause some of them are frontin   They didnt know the reason   Emotion in the end made it feel like revolution      And yeah, yeah, you can yell out your brains   I tell you right now, we got eight years of chains      Hook:      So hurry up because I’m runnin out of clip   Runnin out of time   Runnin out of clip   Runnin out of time   Runnin out of clip   Runnin out of time   Runnin out of clip (what)   Runnin out of time      Chorus      Nineteen-ninety-seven, reduction of a nation   The government is slayin, new laws is what you’re facin   Next comes the clonin, they’re makin new creation   Secretly forming soldiers of you and they station      No more free education on former segregation   Politics’s about affirmative activation      So make a run for the border   Caught by the deporter   The immigration caught you but you got to leave your daughter   We are slowly being slaughtered   So be prepared for the new world order      Yeah, yeah, you can yell out your brains   I tell you right now, we got eight years of chains      Hook      Chorus      Year two-thousand, what’s it really holdin   Or is it really right, live beyond on what you’re knowing   Or is it that technology is what keeps on going   Could it be that the end of time is what I’m showing      I don’t see any grass growin   Everything’s conquered, we’re running out of land      And goddamn yo, I’m runnin out of clip   I’m almost out of time   Runnin out of   Damn, I’m almost out of time      We could all try now but just look up in the sky   We ain’t got no ozone left, we are gonna die   Crime and corruption, is the only season   Is it ’cause the reason is that we out of time      Chorus (2x)