Public Enemy | Lyrics | Nighttrain [Album Version]

Land of the free
But the skin I'm in identifies me
So the people around me
Energize me

Callin' all aboard this train ride
Talkin' 'bout raw hardcore
Leavin' frauds on the outside
But the bad thing is anyone can ride the train

And the reason
For that is 'cause we look the same
Lookin' all around at my so called friend
Light skin to the brown

The black, here we go again
Homey over there knows Keith an'
But he be thiefin', I don't trust him
Rather bust 'em

Up out goes his hand and I cough
He once stole from me
Yeah, I wanna cut it off
The black thing is a ride
I call the nighttrain

It rides the good and the bad
We call the monkey trained
Trained to attack the black, it's true
'Cause some of them look just like you

Stayin' on the scene, sittin' on the train
See all the faces look about the same
There go the sellout who's takin' a ride like Cargo
'Cause he deal, the keys from Key Largo

Runnin' Nat narcotic by George, he got it
Takin', makin' the G erotic and the fiends they scheme
So he can put 'em down, but his method is wreck 'em
Put 'em in tha ground, got tha nerve as hell

To yell brother man, he ain't black man
Known to murder his own, traitor on the phone
Ridin' the train, self-hater trained
To sell pain, the master's toy, little boy

Hard to avoid he look wit' it but he null 'n' void
'Cause he ridin' the train
You think he down for the cause
'Cause his face looks just like yours

More of the same insane who sayin'
Like flowin' like nighttrain
Runnin' the pain of the black reign
You look, you laugh, you doubt and go out

And I'm gone but the bass goes on
To talk the talk, but walk the walk
The king of New York, crack a lack
Attack the black to crack the back

Once again I test a friend wit' sincerity
Or consider him an enemy, who am I to tell a lie
Rather push da bush, hope da cracker get crushed
I'm rollin' wit' rush, leader of the bum rush

Russian I ain't, spreadin' like paint
Lookin' at the put I got and its kickin'
But it ain't chicken, but it's livin'
For a city so sick 'n' tired of a scene buckwild

Piled in a file, senile or Chile
They said it never been no worser than this
I'm on the nighttrain
They hope ya don't miss it

Give ya what dey gotta give you, just go
You musn't just put your trust in every brother, yo
Some don't give a damn
'Cause they the other man worse than a bomb

Posin' as Uncle Toms disgracin' the race
Blowin' up the whole crew
Wit' some of them lookin'
Just like you