feat. Phiness
  
  (Treach)
  One steps down the path of poverty most know the route
  not a pot to piss in or a door to throw it out
  All I hear, these days, we say, she say, we say, anyway
  He grows, she grows, we grow, listen negro (listen)
  I die, you die, few die, who rob, its do or die
  You fry, I fry, new play, new day, new God
  Tell me, what's the sense of this?
  Tell me before they gotta jail me and mail me
  Had to mention it
  You've never been to the ghetto till you had to enter this
  Some plans, one chance, hold heat, hold head, hold theirs (hold ya head)
  Peep rules, we proof, meet troops, speak truth, teach youth (teach the youth)
  No crews, who's who? New day, new rules, do you:
  Break bread, wake heads, check heads, half-a-head for steak feds? (check 'em)
  They'll lock your body, even gotti
  Grab your shotties for an illuminati (ready)
  They'll lock your body as gotti
  Grab your shotties it's an illuminati
  
  (Chorus: Phiness)
  Open your eyes up, people can't you see?
  It's gettin' harder by the day for you and me
  All my life I've seen so much misery
  Can there be a better place for you and me?
  
  (VinRock)
  Why, everytime you try to show a nigga love they shit on you?
  Fuck I'm suppose to do?
  Why, everytime a brother comin' up some pray ya through?
  That's what success'll do
  Cause I'm a hard workin' black man
  In my face stab in my back man
  Rob and steal they wanna kill me black man
  Tell me now what the deal is black man
  Don't ya know the powers in our hand?
  Cause we shine we end up six feet inland
  When we could build one nation
  And it's comprised of all persuasion
  African, Latin caught cagin', Asian
  New World Order, Hip-Hop Nation
  Then we can turn hate to love
  like Malcolm and Martin tripped up, open up your eyes
  
  (Chorus: Phiness)
  Open your eyes up, people can't you see?
  It's gettin' harder by the day for you and me
  All my life I've seen so much misery
  Can there be a better place for you and me?
  
  (Phiness)
  Here today, gone tomorrow
  Live then lay, here tomorrow
  
  (Treach)
  Tell me, what's the sense of this?
  Tell me before they gotta jail me and mail me
  Had to mention it
  You've never been to the ghetto till you had to enter this
  What's the sense of this?
  Tell me before they gotta jail me and mail me
  Had to mention it
  You've never been to the ghetto till you had to enter this
  
  (Chorus: Phiness)
  Open your eyes up, people can't you see?
  It's gettin' harder by the day for you and me
  All my life I've seen so much misery
  Can there be a better place for you and me?
  
  (Treach)
  Feel me, the end of the century
  Feel me, they want us in wakes and penitentiaries (open your eyes)
  That's how the envy be
  Now they got it, we our own enemies
  Feel me, the end of the century
  Feel me, they want us in wakes and penitentiaries (open your eyes)
  That's how the envy be
  Now they got us, we our own enemies