Chorus: GZA and RZA      I gotcha back, but you best to watch your front   Cause it's the niggaz that front, they be pullin stunts   I gotcha back, but you best to watch your front   Cause it's the niggaz who front (they be pullin stunts)      Lyrics:      I was always taught my do's and don'ts   For do's I did, and for don'ts, I said I won't   I'm from Brooklyn, a place where stars are born   Streets are shot up, apartment buildings are torn   and ripped up, stripped up, shacked up and backed up   from fiends, cause the bosses on the scene, they got it cracked up   Kids are slingin in my lobby   Little Steve and Bobby   Gettin paid but it's a life-threatening hobby   Yeah, they still play hide and seek   The fiends seek for the crack, and they hide and let the cops peep   Grown folks say they should be out on their own   Before the gangs come and blow up their mom's home   Because they lifestyle is hectic, so fuckin hectic   Blaow! Blaow! Blaow! Bullets are ejected   My lifestyle was so far from well   Coulda wrote a book with a title "Age 12 and Goin through Hell"   Then I realized the plan   I'm trapped in a deadly video game, with just one man   So I don't only watch my back, I watch my front   Cause it's the niggaz who front, they be pullin stunts   Back on the Ave of Lavonia and Bristol with a pistol   Stickin up Pamela and Crystal   You know your town is dangerous when you see the strangest   kid come home from doin the bid and nuthin changes   What is the meaning of CRIME (what?)   Is it Criminals Robbin Innocent Motherfuckers Everytime?   Little shorties take walks to the schoolyard   Tryin to solve the puzzles to why is life so hard   Then as soon as they reached the playground, blaow!   Shots ring off and now one of them lay down   It's so hard to escape the gunfire   I wish I could rule it out like an umpire   But it's an everlasting game, and it never cease to exist   Only the players change, so...      Chorus 3X      RZA - I gotcha back (8X)   I gotcha back so you best to watch your front   Cause it's the niggaz who front, that be pullin stunts   I gotcha back but you best to watch your front   It's the niggaz who front, that be pullin stunts      Outro: (LP version only)      *old man*   Your, tech, nique, is, mag-ni-ficent   When cut across the neck   A sound like wailing winter winds is heard, they say   I'd always hoped to cut someone like that someday   To hear that sound   But to have it happen to my own neck is... ridiculous   *man gasps for air*