Welcome to the Terrordome Songtext

von Public Enemy

I got so much trouble on my mind
Refuse to lose
Here's your ticket
Hear the drummer get wicked
The crew to you to push the back to black
Attack, so I sat and japped
Then slapped the Mac
Now I'm ready to mike it
You know I like it (huh)
Hear my favoritism roll "oh"
Never be a brother like me go solo
Laser, anastasia, maze ya
Ways to blaze your brain and train ya
The way I'm livin', forgivin'
X on the flex, hit me know
I don't know about later
As for now I know how to avoid the paranoid
Man, I've had it up to here
Gear, I wear got 'em going in fear
Rhetoric said read just a bit ago
Not quittin' though
Sing the hard rhymer
Work to keep from gettin' jerked
Changin' some ways
To way back in the better days
Raw metaphysically bold
Never followed a code
Still dropped a load
Never question what I am, God knows
'Cause it's coming from the heart
What I got better get some
Get on up, hustler of culture
Snakebitten, been spit in the face
But the rhymes keep fittin'
Respects been givin' how's ya livin'
Now I can't protect a paid off defect
Check the record
An reckon an intentional wreck
Played off as some intellect
Made the call, took the fall
Broke the laws
Not mny fault that they're fallin' off
Known as fair square
Throughout my years
So I growl at the livin' foul
Back to the bone, my home is your home
So welcome to the Terrordome

Subordinate terror
Kickin' off an era
Cold deliverin' pain
My '98 was '87 on a record yo
So now I go bronco

Crucifiction ain't no fiction
So called chosen frozen
Apology made who ever pleases
Still they got me like Jesus
I rather sing, bring, think, reminisce
'Bout a brother while I'm in snyc
Every brother ain't a brother
'Cause a color just as well could be undercover
Backstabbed, grabbed a flag
From the back of the lab
Told a rab get off the rag
Sad to say I got sold down the river
Still some quiver when I deliver
Never said I never know or had a clue
Word was heard, plus hard on the boulevard
Lies, scandalizin', basin'
Traits of hate who's celebratin' with Satan
I rope a dope the evil
With righteous bobbin' and weavin'
And let the good get even
C'mon down
And welcome to the Terrordome

Caught in the race against time
The pit and the pendulum
Check the rhythm and rhymes
While I'm bendin' them
Snakes blowin' up the lines of design
Tryin' to blind the science I'm sendin' 'em
How to fight the power
Cannot run and hide
But it shouldn't be suicide
In a game a fool without the rules
Got a hell of a nerve to just criticize
Every brother ain't a brother
'Cause a black hand
Squeezed on Malcolm X the man
The shootin' of Huey Newton
From a hand of a nig who pulled the trig

It's weak to speak and blame somebody else
When you destroy yourself
First nothing's worse than a mother's pain
Of a son slain in Bensonhurst
Can't wait for the state decide the fate
So this jam I dedicate
Places with the racist faces
Example one of many cases
The Greek weekend speech I speak
From a lesson learned in Virginia
I don't smile in the line of fire
I go wildin'
But it's on base and drums, even violins
Watcha do, gitcha head ready
Instead of gettin' physically sweaty
When I get mad
I put it down on a pad
Give ya somethin' that cha never had
Controllin', fear of high rollin'
God bless your soul and keep livin'
Never allowed, kickin' it loud
Droppin' a bomb
Brain game intellectual Vietnam
Move as a team
Never move alone
But welcome to the Terrodome