[00:00.000] 作词 : Teren D. Jones/Kid Koala[00:01.000] 作曲 : Teren D. Jones/Kid Koala/Dan M. Nakamura[00:05.917]In the year 3030 everybody wants to be an MC[00:11.272]In the year 3030 everybody want to be a DJ[00:16.549]In the year 3030 everybody want to be a producer[00:21.930]In the year 3030[00:24.255]Everybody want to tell ya the meaning of the music[00:26.946]I must appeal to you people with your faculties[00:29.715]'Cause everybody else is gonna laugh at me[00:32.092]People try to get over and take a crack at me[00:34.939]The universe is one and I can see what rap can be glorious[00:38.518]Put in the Smithsonian my podiums for holy hymns[00:41.130]But you see who's controlling them[00:43.168]**** myself off 'cause of the egotistical mode I'm in[00:46.224]No I can't slap you no five[00:48.340]When you and your cutty is talkin' shit about me outside[00:51.631]People take pride in what they have no hand in[00:54.087]Sorta like a phantom holographic handsome[00:56.595]But deep inside he want to do what his man done[00:59.390]Just because his peers jeer and and clown[01:01.610]When you're six foot deep no one hears you now[01:04.249]They say were not compatible like deers and cows and owls[01:07.122]So many rules and regulations say you're not allowed[01:09.996]I'm caught in the grip of the city[01:14.201]Madness[01:15.507]I'm caught in the grip of the city[01:19.713]Madness[01:21.098]I'm caught in the grip of the city[01:25.434]Madness[01:26.557]I'm caught in the grip of the city[01:30.972]Madness[01:32.226](My rhyming shield deflects your puny rhymes)[01:43.145]If I had to describe the way I survive its like vice squeezin'[01:46.802]The reason I'm black and still breathin'[01:49.049]Heathens will breed heathens so[01:51.452]Everybody's suspect I must check your ID[01:54.404]'Cause you lookin' sheisty you might be intelligence[01:56.990]Someone that Del's against, opposite or positive[01:59.707]When I drop the law against nature be faithful[02:02.397]Why should I hate you we ain't that different[02:05.009]We may act different in some ways[02:07.517]But we still grouped together like a ****in' survey[02:10.495]Sufferin' and **** em all's the motto[02:12.480]I'm trapped in a bottle[02:13.682]My music's gettin' hollow[02:15.093]That's what happens when humanity you follow[02:17.836]Where every leak or info is hard to swallow[02:20.265]Sell your Marlboros and car insurance[02:22.302]Put niggas on the moon and can't pay your burdens[02:25.150]I smoke herb and rock a turban[02:26.926]Meditate on the world and whats occurrin'[02:29.251]A lot of white boys like the style and copy[02:31.994]Dig in something deeper and you'll peep that were not free[02:34.658]It's not about the separation its about the population[02:37.636]I'm caught in the grip of the city[02:41.581]Madness[02:42.730]I'm caught in the grip of the city[02:47.145]Madness[02:48.320]I'm caught in the grip of the city[02:52.657]Madness[02:53.989]I'm caught in the grip of the city[02:58.351]Madness[03:10.733]Simple minded people always point the finger[03:13.450]To bring it to a close as if life is their role, their path[03:16.898]When all paths are intersections[03:18.936]It depends on the persons perception[03:21.000]When I'm mad as **** you get shot[03:22.854]And to some it's bad luck[03:24.369]I believe you held something back for too long[03:26.982]It grew strong[03:27.896]And energy got its own will[03:29.672]And people think they make music still[03:31.788]But music is there with out you or me we just manipulate[03:35.080]For better or worse so let it situate[03:37.640]I get to make records and dough[03:39.311]Paid out the a*shole[03:40.435]And still seen as another face on the totem pole[03:43.465]Conquer, my sponsors are monsters[03:45.894]And everybody thinks that I'm on one[03:48.219]I'm glad I love music and life[03:50.126]'Cause it's easy to see the pain and strife and end it all tonight[03:53.757]I'm caught in the grip of the city[03:58.172]Madness[03:59.295]I'm caught in the grip of the city[04:03.762]Madness[04:04.833]I'm caught in the grip of the city[04:09.431]Madness[04:10.502]I'm caught in the grip of the city[04:14.995]Madness