Ice-T Escape from the Killing Fields Lyrics

Escape from the killing fields
Escape from the killing fields
Escape from the killing fields
Escape from the killing fields

Here we go, I'm movin' off death row
Ya gotta keep up hops, ya can't be slow
Cause their towers are high, they got the hype gats
Check the perimeters good, read the maps
It's night, they might not see us
Cause if they catch us out there, they'll bleed us
Shoot us, kill us, dump us in a dark ditch
Clean it up, call it a gang hit
I gotta make my move, cause I'm a renegade
I recognize when mind techniques are being played
It's a plot they use to keep down another
Here comes another brainwashed brother

Shut up, do you know how dumb you sound?
That mentality what keeps my people down
No one wants to live in an urban war
You live there cause your parents were poor
They live there because theirs were also
Get yourself together, hit the gates bro!

Ya gotta get out! Ya gotta get out!
Why?
Ya gotta get out! Ya gotta get out!
Why?
Ya gotta get out! Ya gotta get out!
Why?
Cause the fields are where you die!

Escape from the killing fields
Escape from the killing fields
Escape from the killing fields
Escape from the killing fields

You try to keep us running and running faster
But I ain't runnin' from ya, I'm runnin' at ya
And my posse's thick about a mil strong
Too late to make up now, cause it's on
I'm the one that's got ya in constant fear
I'm the n____ you shoulda killed last yeaar
But you played yourself, you let me gain wealth
Now I can change the cards are dealt
I've schooled my homeboys made 'em all understand
The tricks nd twists inflicted on the Black man
How ya make me think to be down
I gotta stay around down in the m_________in' battleground

There'll never be any good schools in the hood
There'll never be any cops that are any good
The hospital is a great place to go to die
Real estate's cheap, let me tell ya why?
The man's got a sure fire system
An economic prison!

Ya gotta get out! Ya gotta get out!
Why?
Ya gotta get out! Ya gotta get out!
Why?
Ya gotta get out! Ya gotta get out!
Why?
Cause the fields are where you die!