Shot Down

A typical Saturday Shit, felt like no other Headed to Deep Ellum To do a show with the fellas I got my shit together Packed a leather jacket for the cold weather Clips for the berretta laying by my umbrella Shit, I'm down for whatever! Nowadays, snipers got you in scope Just ask Lee Harvey Oswald in '63 6th floor, chilling in The Depository Building He sat alone, zoned waiting on the moment Knowing that in 3 seconds The fucking world would go hectic! What an incredible sound The President's down The crowd distracted by the sounds of 3 rounds Some say 2, but who's counting? While Lee bouncing out the spot, cuz it's hot Damn, on the get-a-way he had to drop a cop! Man, that's deep! The Dallas Morning News read ""Kennedy Slain on a Dallas Street!"" Elm in fact, Johnson becomes President In our own backyard Who would've thought? Damn, who would've thought? Political figures dying at the pull of a trigger Who would've figured? They would all get shot down Jealousy inside, made a Muslim die Why ask why? They would all get shot down Malcolm X, JFK to Martin Luther King All had a dream, but it would all get shot down Another brick in wall, watch it crumble & fall Who would've thought? They would all get shot down [VERSE 1: Scottie Freestyles] Dreaming of things that never were And asking""Why not?"" Blood on the kitchen floor And a nation screaming""My God!"" This is the cause of fighting Dying here for the world to see Shots from a pistol could've missed you Where would my people be? Maybe it's neccessary Where would we be if Martin didn't get killed Malcolm survived/ JFK had lived If everyone important wasn't one we lost Imagine what would've happened If Jesus hadn't got the cross! Sometimes a martyr's just the start of the change And the 1st get it, the worst beaten Then battered, then slain! And the thang to me It's like the greater the message The greater the threat So if you don't want me dead I haven't said enough yet! So we keep singing it & singing it & singing it! Until we touch a nerve & then we riding in a chariot! I don't know if Lennon just got killed or was assassinated But we gone carry on the struggle, cuz it's something sacred! Political figures dying at the pull of a trigger Who would've figured? They would all get shot down Jealousy inside, made a Muslim die Why ask why? They would all get shot down Malcolm X, JFK to Martin Luther King All had a dream, but it would all get shot down Another brick in wall, watch it crumble & fall Who would've thought? They would all get shot down You can't get back a life, once it's been aborted You can't rewind to the past & change what was started Ain't no butterfly effect, but you can record it Life is full of choices that you make till that date! Is is fate? A predetermined destiny? Is it bigger than what were supposed to see? Or is it to be? Why they take Makaveli & Biggie away from me? RIP, at least I got they CD! See your a nobody after somebody kills you Your just a body at the funeral With lives left so miserable The physical so fragile, please learn! That just like the leaves turn, lives must burn! And you can keep a urn for the pain But all that remains are memories See in death there is no remedy Ask John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, M. L. King So many slain by the trigger mane God take away the pain Political figures dying at the pull of a trigger Who would've figured? They would all get shot down Jealousy inside, made a Muslim die Why ask why? They would all get shot down Malcolm X, JFK to Martin Luther King All had a dream, but it would all get shot down Another brick in wall, watch it crumble & fall Who would've thought? They would all get shot down