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Manhole

from The Early Years by Manhole

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MANHOLE

I see it all from the street
Peep the deep shit going down around me
Can't clown me
Or drown me
In the tears of a mother crying
From her young son dying
Lying in the gutter with a bullet in his dome
Took the long way home
Caught a stray
It wasn't meant to happen
Couldn't control the cappin'
So I'm rappin' about what I see
While you preach non violence
Living in silence
Among the riots
Hear no evil, see no evil
We the people
Pleased the fifth
Rip the ruffneck tone
And once again it's on
With the shot of a gun as the sun sets low
Down in the Manhole


Now you're up
At the crack of dawn
But the crack aint gone it goes on and on
So you bomb your name
Tag the wall
Brag to your friends how you're making your ends
Jack a Benz
And now you want a jeep to roll deep
What you get is 6 feet
In the ground cuz he wasn't down
For giving his ride up
To a punk clown
Drop your gat fool, time to school ya
And your mama won't admit she knew ya
Gangsters got no heart ike they got no soul
Down in the Manhole

Now take em deeper
Deeper a little bit deeper

Now on the down low from the Manhole
Homegirl don't watch no channel zero
Fuck a hero, I'm a bad bitch
An angry mad bitch
Full of anguish, check the language
Don't ask you to understand it
Planned it like a bandit so before you get bloody
Better ask somebody
I've seen women fucked up, sucked up
Drinks and downed em, let men clown em
Socked em, knocked em up and left em
Quiet as kept em, wrecked em
So I check em, ruffneck em
Disrespect em and neglect em
Cuz I take no shit when I roll
I'm down with the Manhole

Now you're down with the Manhole

credits

from The Early Years, released January 18, 1993
Lyrics & Vocals - Tairrie B.
Guitar - Scott Ueda
Bass - Rico Villasenor
Drums - Marcelo Palomino

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Manhole Los Angeles, California

More Feared Than Loved.└A 93 - 96 "Manhole are quite possibly the angriest band in history." - Kerrang Magazine

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