Resist the Temptation Resist the Temptation This song will go out to the Underground Railroad Digital Underground Resist the temptation of the beat You slip and lose your grip And forever fall asleep The venom is contagious Be wary of its spell What you thought would be heaven Turns out to be hell I wonder if she knows The devil's taking off her clothes Deep into her soul Stole now he's in control Papa's doing worse A victim of a deadly curse Wouldn't be the first To leave the ghetto in a hurse Oh and how it hurts The children pay the biggest price Never gets the chance To grow up with a happy life Blame it on the rock But we know that's a bunch of *** Someone from the top Supplying us with plenty *** Keep them in a daze Don't let them see the other way Let them all get paid Won't live to see another day See they never got a breath But a sunshine Now the kids addicted And only hit it one time We're destined to be dead As a nation Don't let it come to this Resist the Temptation From the pyramids Occupy Lombo With an occupist And I told you You need to give up this goal Don't be born And you won't be sold Running on empty You ain't gon' go Running on empty Leave you to nowhere to be found And I told you Resist the Temptation Gamble for your soul With the devil You wonder how low can you go Before you finally reach The lowest level As everybody sit and stares There's no use looking in your eyes Cause there isn't anybody there And though it may make you wanna cry Got you stealing from your family And you don't even know why I guess you think they'll understand You feel cold Cause you sold your soul to the dope man Now there's no turning back In fact it's decided That you would live and die for the crack You got no friends Cause you cheated them all Feel lonely, low, defeated and small No one was there When I took the wrong path And nobody cared If I died in a bloodbath But is this my destiny Tell the lord they got my mind But he cannot arrest me Cause I'm ready to end it all One bullet to the brain Forgive my sins and all I didn't mean to be a bother A failure as a son A husband and a father I wish I could turn back the time Go back and find Why I let it crack my mind And my only explanation It came to this Resist the Temptation So fear me not You bottom of the boat Whipped and locked You fit and I fold You stuck, you deep You give up, there's gold Don't be poor And you won't be sold Running on empty You ain't gon' blow Running on empty And you know it We defend Nobody can hide So resist the temptation Your death left family behind Your wife and your son find a gun And pieces of daddy's mind On the door and on the floor Now her husband is dead What else is she living for So now she picks up the gun Now son is the only one Grows up in adoption homes Gets older, bolder and cold Cause he's left alone To him nothing is funny Mindset on one thing Making his money Since I was left with no hope I want money and gold ropes And so I slang dope Now I'm the neighborhood dope man And as long as they smoking I'll never be broke man I live the life of the trifle Following a cycle So I'm just a psycho But if I had a better life I would've lived a good life And did more things right All to resist temptation With all the aggravation And the frustration Of living in the ghetto Your mind gets twisted Just like a pretzel So it's time that I check out But one nosy cop Just won't let me get out They got me trapped once again With a choice, shoot the cop Or live life in the pen I can't stand the frustration Resist the temptation Hear me talk, goodbye my boy Whips and locks, if it's an afro But we stuck too deep, you give up, let's go Don't keep up, and you won't be told Running on empty, you ain't gon' go Running on empty, if you can know it Real fast, nobody can last So resist the temptation Yeah, yeah, yeah We'll see, oh So I go out to the underground railroad Digital underground D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d You're running on empty Leading you to nowhere Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh *