Master Plan

This to all my people in the city
Any city, anywhere
Somebody told me when you live in the city
You gotta do what the city does
Pretty thugs battles for power shootin' city slugs
Drugs in the vein, Abel at the hand of Cain
Brother to brother, nothing changed it remain the same
City’s like a missile that seek heat, sling beef
The street blowing at night, barely dream peace
Dreams cease soon as ruckus from all them suckas is buckin'
People ducking cause someone had to blast somethin'
Thrash something at three in the morning, crash somethin'
There’s commotion and sirens, crooked Pharisees firin'
Bullets disguised, angel of light day into night
Fire so bright making you lose your eyesight
So I’ll ignite a flame from your heart through your vein
To your brain information it contain will explode when it connects
Then your heart starts to spill, who to believe?
Man’s thoughts could kill, combined with a tongue
Leave a nation hung stung by the stinger
Spine chilling sung soulfully by the singer
When the lyrics linger you’re forced to look twice at the ice
Pickin' away at the clock that’s tickin' away
It’s the night that never sees dawn
Look back and wonder what went wrong
The song no longer moves me
Sirens no longer soothin'
Things that brought pleasure now bruise
And while I’m thinkin' of a master plan (I need a master plan)
All I’m seein' is disaster man (nothing but disaster)
All these problems coming faster and (faster and faster)
I’m wonderin' if I could ever laugh again
And while I’m thinkin' of a master plan (I need a master plan)
All I’m seein' is disaster man (nothing but disaster)
All these problems coming faster and (faster and faster)
I’m wonderin' if I could ever laugh again
See that’s what happen when the shorty from the bricks
Turns to a chick who turns tricks
Reputation flipped, can’t call her name or
She was a fly Puerto rock
Stayed about a quarter block from my domain
Intelligence high but played the no-brainer
All game, seen her before
Ignored this queen who was created by the Lord
Obviously unsure, unaware unpure
Running scared with a soul fractured, left uncured
Unprepared, young wonder woman visibly scared to my trained eye
My brain cried for this gem
Cause under there flames tried to light a fire
Quote: I feel trapped like a rat in an underwater cage
Vision’s been hazed, played by at a young age
Bullets sprayed down my man before he reached twelfth grade
Prayed he could stay, he told me you’ll be watching me go
Wait for the day that we could reach the streets of Puerto Rico
But now them days are gone
She’s singin' sorrowful songs
Feedin' the baby in the kitchen while talking to moms
The song no longer moves me
Sweet touch no longer soothin'
Things that brought pleasure now bruise
And while I’m thinkin' of a master plan (I need a master plan)
All I’m seein' is disaster man (nothing but disaster)
All these problems coming faster and (faster and faster)
I’m wonderin' if I could ever laugh again
And while I’m thinkin' of a master plan (I need a master plan)
All I’m seein' is disaster man (nothing but disaster)
All these problems coming faster and (faster and faster)
I’m wonderin' if I could ever laugh again
When I thought the laughter was gone
And the dawn turned to the sunset
I felt the Spirit whisperin' tellin' me «Not fret»
When I prayed for the peace, slave was released
The old man gone in the grave with the beast
Each and every street corner that I been through
If they survive lies, they know what to cling to
First God cause city leave a thousand scars
Then blood cause there ain’t love among thugs
Times are getting sicker, tension is getting thicker
Kids losin' their heads to mass amounts of malt liquor
Think quicker, Satan the soul gripper’s on the prowl
Schemin' like a night owl, fiendin' to do something foul
I’m protected by resurrection, poison won’t cause infection
Walk through the illest section leaving crews lost in perplexion
Shine like stars in the universe holding out the Word of Life
Bring revelation to hip-hop nation when I proclaim the love of Christ
As the world hesitates, my voice resonates in trucks
Jeeps streets to fill the ghetto, ladies drink Amaretto
Cry to sleep on their pillow while shadows of lovers lost leave silhouettes
But still the Spirit is so intricately intimate with my rising and setting
My cryin' and sweatin' through pictures of my past
I ain’t forgetting it, it no longer moves me
All things no longer soothing
Things that brought pleasure now bruise
No longer thinkin' of a master plan
Because I put it in the Master’s hands
And though the problems comin' faster, I’m hungerin' after
His Spirit brings the laughter again
No longer thinkin' of a master plan
Because I put it in the Master’s hands
And though the problems comin' faster, I’m hungerin' after
His Spirit brings the laughter again