Lyrics Public Enemy

Public Enemy

By the Time I Get to Arizona

I'm countin' down to the day deservin' fittin' for a king

I'm waitin' for the time when I can get to Arizona

'Cause my money's spent on the goddamn rent

Neither party is mine not the jackass or the elephant

20 thousand nig niggy nigas in the corner

Of the cell block but they come from California

Population none in the desert and sun

Wit' a gun cracker runnin' things under his thumb

Starin' hard at the postcards isn't it odd and unique?

Seein' people smile wild in the heat 120 degree

'Cause I wanna be free

What's a smilin' fact when the whole state's racist

Why want a holiday dame it 'cause I wanna

So what if I celebrate it standin' on a corner

I ain't drinkin' no 40, thinkin' time wit' a nine

Until we get some land call me the trigger man

Lookin' for the governor, huh he ain't lovin' ya

But here to trouble ya, he's rubbin' ya wrong

Get the point come along he can get to the joint

I urinated on the state while I was kickin' this song

Yeah, he appear to be fair, the cracker over there

He try to keep it yesteryear

The good ol' days, the same ol' ways

That kept us dyin', yes, you me myself and I indeed

What he need is a nosebleed read between the lines

Then you see the lie politically planned

But understand that's all she wrote

When we see the real side that hide behind the vote

They can't understand why he the man, I'm singin' 'bout a king

They don't like it when I decide to mike it

Wait I'm waitin' for the date

For the man who demands respect 'cause he was great c'mon

I'm on the one mission

To get a politician

To honor or he's a gonner

By the time I get to Arizona

Well, I got 25 days to do it

If a wall in the sky just watch me go thru it

'Cause I gotta do what I gotta do

PE number one, gets the job done

When it's done and over was because I drove'er

Thru all the static not stick but automatic

That's the way it is he gotta get his, talkin' MLK

Gonna find a way make the state pay

Lookin' for the day

Hard as it seems this ain't no damn dream

Gotta know what I mean

It's team against team catch the light beam

So I pray, I pray everyday, I do and praise Jah, The Maker

Lookin' for culture I got but not here from Jah maker

Pushin' and shakin' the structure bringin' down the Babylon

Hearin' the sucker that make it hard for the brown

The hard Boulova, I need now more than ever now

Who's sittin' on my freedah' opressor people beater

Piece of the pick, we picked a piece of land that we deservin' now

Reparation a piece of the nation and damn he got the nerve

Another niga they say and classify, we want too much

My peep plus the whole nine is mine don't think I even double dutch

Here's a brother my attitude hit 'em, hang 'em high

I'm blowin' up the 90s started tickin' 86

When the blind get a mind

Better start and earn while we sing it now

There will be the day we know those down and who will go

Go go go go

By the time I get to Arizona

By the time I get to Arizona

By the time I get to Arizona