Cause and Effect

<br>[Guru]<br>You ain`t livin right punk, I`ll have to school you<br>Not rule you, but I`ll say yo you fool yourself<br>When you try to deny and defy written laws<br>This means your cause has lost<br>Think about it, take the time, and even ponder longer<br>Then let your mind start to wander<br>Go black and track the facts, about all of your mistakes<br>It only takes to one to make fate<br>Pick up your life, clean up your act, and get a legal plan<br>You can, or be an evil man<br>Caught, and then you claim you`re not responsible<br>The choice was yours, when the fun`s gone you will realize<br>that you don`t get somethin for nothin, why you bluffin?<br>Others even brothers are stuffin their pockets<br>with honest cash, they`ll laugh, so don`t knock it<br>Jock it, cause the Guru must stop it<br>I`ll jab you, smack you, crack -- you`re demolished<br>You must acknowledge -- life is like a college in itself<br>Get a degree in reality<br>Or you will be upon it like a lawn you`ll be walked on<br>Gone, never to see or be the same again<br>Friend, cause the time you spend<br>Bringin down yourself, bringin down the pace<br>Bringin down your friends, bringin down the race<br>will have your life in a wreck<br>And homeboy life is cause and effect<br><br>* Primo scratches *<br><br>[Guru]<br>Exactly what you put in boy, you will get out of it<br>The energy released comes back, there is no doubt of it<br>So when you thrive to connive and contrive foolish deeds<br>This means you`ll bleed from greed<br>Dig the rhyme dig the thought, of what`ll happen<br>You`re nappin, you`re gonna fall off the map `n`<br>lie out, and cry out, why? You got the short end of the stick<br>Cause you`re too quick to run tricks<br>Open your mind, widen your sight, get out of your rut<br>MOVE, and get the lead out of your butt<br>Cause you can`t live without a plan to get freshed chump<br>and you shouldn`t stand to let<br>anything sway you from the path you know is truthful<br>Chill, cause you know the chosen youth will<br>take over, and control the whole so don`t blow it<br>Know it, cause the Guru must show it<br>I`ll teach you, reachin each so you`re enlightened<br>Emcees are frightened, by what I write in my songs<br>Cause I express what I manifest<br>While some of you fall down to the ground with breakdowns<br>never to see or be the same again<br>Friend, cause the time you spend<br>Bringin down yourself, bringin down the pace<br>Bringin down your friends, bringin down the race<br>will have your life in a wreck<br>And homeboy life is cause and effect<br><br>* Primo scratches *<br><br>[Guru]<br>You`re still playin games lame, I`ll have to end you<br>Straight to the gate of fate, so you can claim your doom<br>Will you decay as you pay in repentance<br>I light my sentence like incense<br>Breathe in, expel your fears as you marvel<br>Heed what I feed, you won`t starve you`ll make it<br>But if you don`t, you will be finished<br>You`ll dissapear, you will diminish<br>never to see or be the same again<br>Friend, cause the time you spend<br>Bringin down yourself, bringin down the pace<br>Bringin down your friends, bringin down the race<br>will leave you bugged and upset<br>Cause homeboy life is cause and effect<br>Cause and effect!!<br><br>* Primo scratches *<br><br>[Guru]<br>Once again, Premier and the Guru<br>It`s like that