[00:00.00]Time's Runnin' Out (Original Version) - Brand Nubian [00:11.68]The time's running out tick-tock like the grains of sand [00:14.97]Every man sharpens man like steel sharpens steel [00:18.24]The threat of a war is real [00:20.18]Where my soldiers for the battlefield [00:23.44]And as the days of the two-oh approach [00:25.55]I drop a seed in my girl [00:27.69]So I can stay in this world [00:29.07]And decompose the foes [00:30.44]That slipped up under our nose [00:32.24]We living on rows on top of rows and [00:34.16]Half our stores is closed [00:35.81]We still trickin out jerkin out [00:37.23]Half the project workin out [00:38.57]They buildin underground cities [00:39.91]While we worried about seein titties [00:41.53]With they secret committies [00:42.72]And society orders [00:43.98]They carryin out the slaughter [00:45.42]Picture your daughter on stage for a quarter [00:46.86]My old Uncle Sam fought in the war of Vietnam [00:48.33]Got caught with napalm [00:49.53]And burned off half his f**kin arm [00:51.22]The government knew [00:52.28]Then about the lasting effects [00:53.74]Now they done cut off his checks [00:55.29]And if he wild out he'll be murdered [00:57.01]Or possibly herded to the VA Hospi-tal [00:59.56]Where they got 'em under one roof [01:01.16]Where they can conceal the proof [01:02.70]You can see sh*t changin cat [01:04.16]It can't stay the same [01:05.86]Damn I wish the government [01:07.24]Didn't have my real name [01:08.74]Put down that glass of champagne [01:10.99]It seems yo' a** ain't heard a damn thing [01:12.57]That I've been sayin niggaz steady playin [01:14.39]Like it's recess in the schoolyard [01:15.99]Jewels from the God [01:17.10]Cast to the foolish heart [01:18.67]Meanwhile the white militia's training [01:20.79]Like Freemen in Montana aiming they guns [01:22.17]Son I told you revolution would come [01:23.55]Way back in '91 [01:25.14]You might find me on the run [01:26.46]Forced to be a fugitive [01:28.04]But livin my life like a pugilist [01:29.37]Always givin Devils hell [01:30.52]Rebels rest under a shell [01:32.99]We packin knives made in Israel [01:34.62]Preparin for the comin confrontation [01:36.23]What the f**k y'all niggaz waitin for [01:38.48]We in a state of [01:40.11]War 1997 ain't gon' be no slice of heaven [01:42.62]Like Richard Gere I hope this touch yo' Primal Fear [01:45.09]Four years is the turn of the century [01:47.38]I guess we gon' learn eventually [01:49.24]They wanna burn books that mention me [01:51.54]Take a look into your future tell me what you see [01:54.00]Pardon me mister [01:55.43]Well it's the eight-five resister to give [01:56.80]Your brain cell a blister [01:58.20]So fine-tune your resistor [01:59.49]Every ghetto corner's goner [02:01.03]So I think that you should wanna [02:02.99]Take heed to the seed [02:04.38]Once I plant it we can feed [02:06.22]Now we stuck on stupid [02:06.90]In a state of unawareness [02:09.10]Makes us fearless endearless [02:10.61]Recklessness makes us careless [02:12.33]This idiology stupidity lack of idealogy [02:14.48]Periodically destroys us psychologically [02:16.79]Cipher's dimension is viewed on dissension [02:19.49]Like a undetected chemical [02:20.97]That creates mad tension [02:22.25]We all been injected now [02:23.60]We all become infected [02:24.49]Ways and action of our people is [02:26.68]The way that we dissect it [02:28.11]It's gettin trifer we should run the six sects [02:30.22]Taking tons of you now follow by [02:32.06]Twenty-one ciphers [02:33.40]But we don't cause we frozen [02:35.04]Posin at thirty-two degrees [02:36.77]That's no way for the chosen to be dosin [02:39.54]The time's running out tick-tock like the grains of sand [02:42.57]Every man sharpens man like steel sharpens steel [02:45.44]The threat of a war is real [02:47.33]Where my soldiers for the battlefield [02:50.69]The time's running out tick-tock like the grains of sand [02:53.71]Every man sharpens man like steel sharpens steel [02:56.98]The threat of a war is real [02:59.27]Where my soldiers for the battlefield [03:01.94]Cause right about this time [03:03.20]They tryin to trace my moves [03:04.68]By simple things like bills [03:06.17]They tryin to mark my location [03:07.55]At home or on vacation [03:08.24]Through my ChemicalBank card [03:09.95]They tryin to kill the God [03:11.63]And through my food feed me lard [03:13.08]It be that lesson temptation [03:13.78]For them devilish type creations [03:15.93]Making the black mind feeble [03:16.63]With they thought pattern Evel [03:18.70]Like Knievel or conniving [03:19.36]Got no time for eighty-fiving [03:21.67]It's time to educate instead of wastin time jiving [03:23.84]We goin to hell in a handbasket [03:25.82]Fell into a casket [03:27.46]Cause for drastic measures [03:28.11]We should all stick together [03:30.28]Final Call we better heed instead of chasin [03:33.00]After cheddar cheese [03:33.62]Before we back to slavery commitin acts of bravery [03:36.15]The time's running out tick-tock like the grains of sand [03:38.80]Every man sharpens man like steel sharpens steel [03:42.26]The threat of a war is real [03:44.80]Where my soldiers for the battlefield [03:47.31]The time's running out tick-tock like the grains of sand [03:50.70]Every man sharpens man like steel sharpens steel [03:53.47]The threat of a war is real [03:55.33]Where my soldiers for the battlefield