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The City
On Tour
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The City was released on June 3, 1997 by LOUD Records as a part of the album Wu-Tang Forever
June 3, 1997
LabelLOUD Records
LanguageEnglish
BPM93
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Check it, yo
The world is shifting, we living just enough for the city
The rough, witty, Killa Bee sting just like the jiggy
My family stole, foes attempt to gradually clone
Labeled M-I-A, now send the casualties home
In closed coffins, Wu storming like the light brigade
Ride the wave like Frankie Avalon inside the cyber age
Crime pays, the law's long arm be tryna strong arm
Waking time bombs who thrive on firearms
The charm smoker, I hit the dread with a poster
We told 'em to show love and exposed the black toaster
The poser was shook, I took your bad looks for joke
Get your back broke, deep throat this murder I wrote
The antidote be seeking like a buried treasure
By every measure, lethally inject your whole sector
Wanted dead or alive, Rebel I escapes
Across the desert sand leaving no footprints to trace
Keep a war face, your place conceal the baby knives
On the North breaks I still shine in shady times
[Chorus]
Yo, yo, we living just enough
Living just enough for the city
Just enough, just enough for the city
[Verse 2]
Yo, in the jungle I make moves like Iron Monkey
Plots to bump me off, D-O-B-T on the hunt for me
We stay hungry for money, drugs and guns
Ones who fake get caught in the crossfire for crumbs
Know the science be my guidance
The facts tell, gats sell like sex and violence
And break the project's silence, a vision
This is way beyond four corners, escape this mental prison
Before we're all goners
Now brace the world, 'fore the world war, we smoke some bomber
Visionary soldier karma, my code of honor
Mind still scarred from the drama
Trauma center victim, witness them run, scream in horror
Military chopper come gun down the slums
The outcome, do or die, son, it's bound to come
Mentally aware, I see truth within the square
The future's here, catch me on computer software
Warfare's inevitable, Rebel I hold several government official
Issue thirty eight specials, that step through
Like Nat Turner create a spectacle
I may die in the scuffle but I'm taking forty devils
[Chorus]
We living just enough, just enough, just enough
For the city
For the city
Killa Beez stinging MCs
Yeah, Wu
Written by: Selwyn Dajuan Bougard, Wu-Tang Clan
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