Ghetto Matrix - Symphonik Version

The city was cold
 Replete with these sheets of old ways
 And stained tenements that were built for bold slaves
 Days collapse, street's name, perhaps
 Were traps, you could see it in the concrete cracks
 The lost hope is smoked
 The skies would devise for slowpokes
 Dreamers who seem to touch zenith
 Their arms couldn't reach without touching the breach
 A blunder, so the summers woulda summoned police
 The heat reached through crevices
 To verify the visage of the nemesis
 No blemishes to find on this intricate design
 And odd no-brainer, the container was the mind
 The poverty stricken victims
 Produced the paint for the portrait
 So humble, yet the struggle was sold and went corporate
 It hit the world stage and got celebrated
 This odd mix of love and hatred
 The ghetto matrix
 It's on you, it's your mind
 It's a complex plan that keeps us confined
 It's on you, it's your mind
 It's a complex plan that keeps us confined
 It's on you, it's your mind
 It's a complex plan that keeps us confined
 It's on you, it's your mind
 It's a complex plan that keeps us confined
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 The mantra of the mission:
 Make money off the missing
 The streets were the rhythm
 When the six rounds hit 'em
 The shells danced in the moonlight of sunshine
 The blues, you could view them on the news at nine
 The vines grow over headstones and then homes
 Composed to give prose to the anguish and moans
 The worries of the world can't stop the cash crop
 The blood drop signifies a rise in the stock
 The matrix that enslaves us stops to seemingly balk
 But can't deny the fact that the act has gone pop
 Nonstop, the plot thickens with his and her children
 Echoes of the plight, like to have the youth listen
 Is it ghetto? Is it urban? Are you certain?
 Are you a servant here to keep the sales surgin'?
 All in all, it seems that no one can escape it
 This odd mix of love and hatred
 The ghetto matrix
 It's on you, it's your mind
 It's a complex plan that keeps us confined
 It's on you, it's your mind
 It's a complex plan that keeps us confined
 It's on you, it's your mind
 It's a complex plan that keeps us confined
 It's on you, it's your mind
 It's a complex plan that keeps us confined
 It's on you, it's your mind
 It's a complex plan that keeps us confined
 It's on you, it's your mind
 It's a complex plan that keeps us confined
 It's on you, it's your mind
 It's a complex plan that keeps us confined
 And it's true, it's your time
 Rise up and take control of your mind
 And then shine