A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste

Gangs usually roll as a savage pack

Once sworn in, there's no turnin back

Initiation, manhoods are tested

Do crime, you'll fail by becoming arrested

Get beat down the line, cautiously steppin

Always watchin your back with your hand on your weapon

You blink for a minute and get brutally beaten

Every time you diss the colors it will keep on repeatin

When you say you knew somebody that was a gang member

You can't say you know him, you can only remember

You have to live life all nervous and worried

But joinin a gang means you want to be buried

It's either that or jail cause there's no other place

And a mind is a terrible thing to waste

Just a walk on the block, they tell you it costs

Willingly pay - or be forced

Once your color is set you gotta be stern

A bad influence for the young that are eager to learn

The rules of a gang is fightin and killin

Did you ever stop to think that was blood you were spillin?

Duckin from the cops most the time

Because you live life devoted to crime

Gangs are mainly based on colors and races

Not everywhere, just in particular places

Hang on the corner or on the stoop

Fightin people lookin just like a terrorist group

Gangs give a rank at society level

Wear a tatoo skull with the mark of the devil

You have to live life all nervous and worried

But joinin a gang means you want to be buried

It's either that or jail cause there's no other place

And a mind is a terrible thing to waste

No turnin back [repeated]

Had many bad dreams, nights stayin awake

Joinin a gang was the fatal mistake

Just to fill your head with knowledge till your mind goes blank

And rumble with boys and dispose of the shank

GANG can be spelled with capital letters

Yo, while you're sweepin the streets, does it make you feel better?

Some gangs lack action, they're basically talk

Until their brains get scattered on the sidewalk

Your obligation is to serve as a marionette

And by society you're treated like a homeless pet

You want to live the life of crime doin negative things

When Al Capone died, so did gangster kings

To live the life of a gangster is all out of place

Because a mind is a terrible thing to waste

Gangs are always violent but jail is rough

You go a man and you may leave a cream puff

You say you do crime cause you're poverty stricken

And so is everybody that you're robbin and vickin

Gangs ain't gonna be around much longer

If 5 out of 10 become mentally stronger

My mother said bein in a gang ain't nothin

I didn't listen to her cause I thought she was bluffin

I thank her from my heart that she stayed on my case

Made sure my mind didn't just become another waste