Colors lyrics - Ice-T

Yo Ease let's do this

I am a nightmare walking, psychopath talking

King of my jungle just a gangster stalking

Living life like a firecracker quick is my fuse

Vendettas of death back; the colors I choose

Red or Blue, Cuz or Blood, it just don't matter

Sucker dive for your life when my shotgun scatters

The gangs of L.A. will never die – just multiply

You see they hit us then we hit them

Then we hit them and they hit us, man

It's like a war, ya know what I'm sayin'

People don't even understand

They don't even know what they dealing with

You wanna get rid of the gangs it's gonna take a lotta work

But people don't understand the size of this

This is no joke man, this is real

You don't know me, fool

You disown me, cool

I don't need your assistance, social persistence

Any problem I got I just put my fist in

My life is violent but violent is life

Peace is a dream, reality is a knife

My colors, my honour, my colors, my all

With my colors upon me one soldier stands tall

Tell me what have you left me, what have I got

Last night in cold blood my young brother got shot

My homeboy got jacked

My mother's on crack

My sister can't work 'cause her arms show tracks

Madness insanity live in profanity

Then some punk claimin' they're understandin' me

Give me a break, what world do you live in

Death is my set, guess my religion

Yo my brother was a gang banger

And all my homeboys bang

I don't know why I do it man, I just do it

I never had much of nothing man

Look at you man, you've got everything going for yourself

And I ain't got nothing man, I've got nothing

I'm living in the ghetto man

Just look at me man, look at me

My pants are sagging braided hair

Suckers stare but I don't care

My game ain't knowledge my game's fear

I've no remorse so squares beware

But my true mission is just revenge

You ain't in my set, you ain't my friend

Wear the wrong color your life could end

Homicide's my favorite binge

Listen to me man

No matter what you do don't ever join a gang

You don't wanna be in it man

You're just gonna end up in a mix of dead friends and time in jail I

Know, if

I had a chance like you

I would never be in a gang man

But I didn't have a chance

You know I wish I did

I'll just walk like a giant police defiant

You'll say to stop but I'll say that I can't

My gang's my family it's all that I have

I'm a star, on the walls is my autograph

You don't like it, so you know where you can go

'Cause the streets are my stage and terror's my show

Psycho-analyze tried diagnosing me why?

It wasn't your brother that brutally died

But it was mine, so let me define

My territory don't cross the line

Don't try to act crazy

'Cause that shit don't faze me

If you ran like a punk

It wouldn't amaze me

'Cause my color's death

Though we all want peace

But our war won't end

'Til all wars cease

See the wars of the street gangs will always get to me man

But I don't wanna be down with this situation man

But I'm in here, if I had something better to do I think I'd do it but

Right

Now I'm just down here boy

I'm trying to get money 'cause I'm smart

I'm gonna get paid while I'm out here

I'm gonna get that paper, ya know what I'm saying

If I had a chance like you

Maybe I would be in school

But I'm not, I'm out here living day to day surviving

And I'm willing to die for my colors

Yo'll please stop, 'cause I want ya all to live

This is Ice-T, Peace