| [Intro: Ice-T] Every year the same shit happens
 More fuckin' funerals, dead homies
 Niggas out here killin' each other
 I don't know why
 And when it happens to you
 just can't turn the other fuckin' cheek
 Gotta get back for your dead niggas
 Yeah I'm caught up to
 
 [Ice-T]
 Sometimes I sit and wonder
 how many motherfuckers gonna die this summer
 Gunshots from the hummer
 Now the sawed-off riot pumps lead across your beds
 They said: "Mama, less you wouldn't strike back"
 mack ten, eleven, twelve, hit us and then puts us to hell
 They started it, there's no way to mend it, we'll end it
 My crew'll hit the matresses, G.O.D.
 Father style - all prepared to get buckwild
 Half my niggas ball, other half ain't got it all
 They stay up at nights waitin' on a combat call
 Drinkin' hard liquor, smokin' mad loop and shit
 So high, sometimes I even gotta load they clips
 I ain't mad at them though, they dumps the ammo
 in you, suspend you in here, hell yeah
 It's the time that the real niggas live for retaliation
 Move on 'em, show, improve on 'em
 All you punk bitches just stand back and watch
 Me, I'm oilin' up the Heckler & Gotch
 I gots no love, for them busters, who put the work in
 I can still see my fuckin' boys' body jerkin'
 I ran over to him, put my hand on his chest
 Hole like an apple in the side of his neck
 His eyes glanced up, his body jerked once more
 There's nothin' else to do but to go to war
 Slide the hollow-tips in the chrome four-four
 Roll down the windows, hang the heat out the door
 Catch all the fuckin' bodies that I can tonight
 Double-back on your bitch crew, broad daylight
 
 [Chorus: Ice-T]
 There's no innocence allowed in these ghetto streets
 Grab your guns, buck 'em off, when ya hit your leak
 Tell me what would you do if they killed your best friend?
 Could you keep your cool, would the wounds mend?
 If I said "peace", I'll be a motherfuckin' liar
 ("I'm lettin' off until my arms tired" - [cut and scratched]) Retaliation
 
 [Ice-T]
 Been packin' straps so long I gots some permanent bruise in my leg
 Better that than dead
 Now it's time to show you what I'm trained for in this
 Rally up the wolfpack-attack relentless
 Make ya understand it was the wrong crew ya fuck with
 Now it's on bitches, guys are darker than shit
 You musta not a known when you fuckin' hit that day
 Or maybe you di, you're dyin' anyway
 And not just you, some of your family
 To tell you the truth any fuckin' body we see
 You might just wanna turn yourself into me
 To save your hood pain of my crews' treachery
 You fucked up, we know who you are, where ya live
 We got your place ran up to a cop on the tick
 We'll hit your block so hard, you'll swear it was an earthquake
 Squeeze off the fully-auto, make your whole crib shake
 I know you're breathin' hard, livin' on your last day
 Or maybe, you're laughin', thinkin' that you got away
 I don't give a fuck, I won't sleep
 Till one of us lays me and my nigga
 That's the fear of these triggers
 If ya smart, ya probably make a break out of state
 We'll just snatch your kid, grab your fuckin' bitch and wait
 I'll catch ya down South, lay your ass out straight
 There's no where to run, it's time to meet your make
 You got one chance, arm your whole damn crew
 I couldn't stop my fuckin' niggas if I wanted to
 
 [Chorus: Ice-T]
 There's no innocence allowed in these ghetto streets
 Grab your guns, buck 'em off, when ya hit your leak
 Tell me what would you do if they killed your best friend?
 Could you keep your cool, would the wounds mend?
 If I said "peace", I'll be a motherfuckin' liar
 ("I'm lettin' off until my arms tired" - [cut and scratched])
 Retaliation
 
 ("Lettin' off until my arms tired" - [cut and scratched])
 
 
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