[00:00.464]GZA -Victim[00:01.361]Written by:GZA/Genius/Gary Grice/Sulayman Ansari/Kristal Moss[00:08.665]Just another victim of the[00:13.525]Victim of the ghetto[00:19.863]Just another victim[00:24.741]That's how it goes ooh[00:31.811]Heavy foot traffic jam the hallway all day[00:34.937]Adolescence workin for small pay[00:37.65]World so little[00:37.903]He could never leave his block[00:39.585]His home full of riddle[00:40.774]So he always need his glock[00:42.429]He coast with his eye open[00:44.133]Keep his metal smokin[00:45.787]Young wasted minds[00:46.840]Fiendin on dimes cokin[00:48.416]Forgot kids quick to break rules[00:50.142]And known to make fools[00:51.478]Out of many down the streets be more safe than school[00:54.219]There's no diploma[00:55.229]That can break him from the coma[00:56.999]A bloody war in the country[00:58.865]The youth hungry[00:59.854]On the corner[01:00.821]Hyenas amongst me[01:02.619]Yabbin bout the stories[01:03.958]They be hearin always swearin[01:05.610]Can't even spell the shit that he be wearin[01:08.291]Caught up in the silk web of material[01:10.987]Superficial stains ya brain tissue[01:12.828]That's the issue[01:14.191]The young is lost at their own cost dreamin[01:16.736]Screamin how we never hold positions[01:18.611]That's the meanin[01:19.525]Brothers of murder victims share the same grief[01:22.342]The elderly shake their head in disbelief[01:25.84]And no relief came till I aimed[01:27.468]And blast one shot and left my name[01:30.325]The GZA[01:32.927]Just another victim of the[01:37.750]Victim of the ghetto[01:44.13]Just another victim[01:48.989]That's how it goes ooh[01:55.644]My residence is a city where army veterans smoke rocks[01:58.988]On torn down blocks[01:59.982]Dr*g spots set out their shops[02:01.539]And cops watch[02:02.361]Innocent niggaz roam in flocks[02:04.129]Romanism in tops[02:05.303]Papers and knots[02:06.55]Churches and liquor stores on every corner plot[02:08.371]To get money not[02:09.550]Some funny niggaz act like they could pop glocks and those who can't cop[02:12.550]Sisters givin up a**a lot[02:13.974]Brothers givin up cash a lot[02:15.380]They be strugglin to become someone because their parents not[02:18.220]Just another victim of the ghetto[02:19.977]Where lost minds settle[02:21.359]When the devil uncivils society and die free[02:23.884]With double w followed by JD around the necks[02:26.896]And wrists the god is now a dog[02:28.422]The earth is called a bitch[02:29.483]And all my people wish to get rich in this wilderness[02:31.594]To push a lexus[02:32.542]Ice on everythin from rings and braclets to the necklaces[02:35.272]Children molested within these pest infested buildins[02:37.947]Thieves uneducated in these schools[02:39.770]Paint on the ceilins[02:40.732]Peelin off[02:41.489]But all I see is lost black babies callin[02:43.791]Please somebody save me[02:45.164]Please somebody save me[02:45.981]Just another victim of the[02:50.641]Victim of the ghetto[02:56.903]Just another victim[03:01.888]That's how it goes ooh[03:08.267]Just another victim of the[03:13.70]Victim of the ghetto[03:19.440]Just another victim[03:24.304]That's how it goes ooh[03:30.704]Just another[03:36.261]Just another[03:41.166]Victim of the ghetto