[sadat x] 
The time is running out, tick-tock, like the grains of sand 
Every man sharpens man, like steel sharpens steel 
The threat of a war is real 
Where my soldiers for the battlefield? 
And as the days of the two-oh approach 
I drop a seed in my girl, so i can stay in this world 
And decompose the foes that jumped up under our clothes 
We living on rows on top of rows and, half our stores is clothed 
We still trickin out, jerkin out 
Half the project workin out 
They buildin underground cities 
While we concerned about seein titties 
With they secret, commities, and society, orders 
They carryin out the slaughter 
Picture your daughter on state's for a quarter 
My old uncle sam fought in the war of vietnam 
Got caught with napalm and burned off half his fuckin arm 
The government knew then about the lasting effects 
And they cut off his checks 
And if he wild out he'll be murdered 
Or possibly herded, to the va hospi-tal 
Where they got em under on roof 
Where they can conceal the proof 
You can see shit changin cat it can't stay the same 
Damn i wish the government didn't have my real name 
[lord jamar] 
The time is running out, tick-tock, like the grains of sand 
Every man sharpens man, like steel sharpens steel 
The threat of a war is real 
Where my soldiers for the battlefield? 
[sadat x] 
The time is running out, tick-tock, like the grains of sand 
Every man sharpens man, like steel sharpens steel 
The threat of a war is real 
Where my soldiers for the battlefield? 
[lord jamar] 
Time for my army to get it on, we marched upon the lawn 
Out in d.c., stated our word is bond on tv 
Unfold the prophecy left in the cold by democracy 
This whole world is based on hypocrisy 
It's evil to the roots and now we burn and loot, and shoot guns 
Extort funds, kidnap another patty hearst 
And tap her daddy's purse, anarchist, smoking cannabis 
Wrapped in brown leaves, you now trapped with the town thieves 
The ground breathes in the fumes of death 
Clouds loom from the smoke, of the fires we set 
We travel underground the sewer system, and train tunnels 
We let you know that you was victims, of brain funnels 
Information like computer generation, see 
Proper education always causes elevation 
It's time for liberation, we gonna put this plan in activation 
Government assassination, written in revelation 
[grand puba] 
Pardon me mister, well it's the eight-five resister to give 
Your brain cell a blister so fine-tune your resistor 
Every ghetto corner's goner so i think that should wanna 
Take heed to the seed, once i plant it we can feed 
Now we stuck on stupid in a state of unawareness 
Makes us, fearless endearless 
Recklessness makes us careless 
This idiology, stupidity, lack of idealogy 
Periodically destroys us psychologically 
Cipher's dimension is viewed on dissension 
Like a undetected chemical that creates mad tension 
We all been inject now we all become infected 
Ways and action of our people is the way that we detect it 
It's gettin trifer, we should run the six sects 
Taking tons of you now follow by, twenty-one ciphers 
But we don't, cause we frozen, posin, at thirty-two degrees 
That's no way for the chosen to be dosin 
The time is running out, tick-tock, like the grains of sand 
Every man sharpens man, like steel sharpens steel 
The threat of a war is real 
Where my soldiers for the battlefield? 
[lord jamar] 
The time is running out, tick-tock, like the grains of sand 
Every man sharpens man, like steel sharpens steel 
The threat of a war is real 
Where my soldiers for the battlefield? 
[sadat x] 
Cause right about this time, they tryin to trace my moves 
By simple things like bills, they tryin to mark my location 
At home or on vacation through my chemicalbank card 
They tryin to kill the god and through my food feed me lard 
[grand puba] 
It be that lesson temptation for them devilish type creations 
Making the black mind feeble with they thought pattern evil 
Like kneival, or conniving, got no time for eighty-fiving 
It's time to educate instead of wasting all our time 
[lord jamar] 
We goin to hell in a handbasket, fell into a casket 
Cause for drastic measures, we should all stick together 
Final call, we better heed instead of chasin after cheddar cheese 
Before we back to slavery commitin acts of bravery yo 
The time is running out, tick-tock, like the grains of sand 
Every man sharpens man, like steel sharpens steel 
The threat of a war is real 
Where my soldiers for the battlefield? 
[sadat x] 
The time is running out, tick-tock, like the grains of sand 
Every man sharpens man, like steel sharpens steel 
The threat of a war is real 
Where my soldiers for the battlefield?