I Gotcha Back

[Chorus: GZA & RZA]

I got your back, but you best to watch your front

'Cause it's the niggas that front, they be pulling stunts

I got your back, but you best to watch your front

'Cause it's the niggas who front (They be pulling stunts)

[Verse: GZA]

I was always taught my do's and don'ts

For do's I did, and for don'ts, I said I won't

I'm from Brooklyn, a place where stars are born

Streets are shot up, apartment buildings are torn

And ripped up, stripped up, shacked up and backed up

From fiends 'cause the bosses on the scene, they got it cracked up

Kids are slinging in my lobby, little Steve and Bobby

Getting paid, but it's a life-threatening hobby

Yeah, they still play hide-and-seek

The fiends seek for the crack, and they hide and let the cops peep

Grown folks say they should be out on their own

Before the gangs come and blow up their mom's home

Because their lifestyle is hectic, so fucking hectic

Blaow! Blaow! Blaow! Bullets are injected

My lifestyle was so far from well

Could've wrote a book with the title "Age Twelve and Going Through Hell"

Then, I realized the plan

I'm trapped in a deadly video game, with just one man

So I don't only watch my back, I watch my front

'Cause it's the niggas who front, they be pulling stunts

Back on the Ave of Livonia and Bristol with a pistol

Sticking up Pamela and Crystal

You know your town is dangerous when you see the strangest

Kid come home from doing the bid and nothing changes

What is the meaning of CRIME? (What?)

Is it Criminals Robbing Innocent Motherfuckers Everytime?

Little shorties take walks to the schoolyard

Tryna solve the puzzles to why is life so hard

Then as soon as they reached the playground, blaow!

Shots ring off and now one of them lay down

It's so hard to escape the gunfire

I wish I could rule it out like an umpire

But it's an everlasting game

And it never cease to exist, only the players change, so

[Chorus: GZA & RZA]

I got your back, but you best to watch your front

'Cause it's the niggas that front, they be pulling stunts

I got your back, but you best to watch your front

'Cause it's the niggas who front (They be pulling stunts)

I got your back, but you best to watch your front

'Cause it's the niggas that front, they be pulling stunts

I got your back, but you best to watch your front

'Cause it's the niggas who front (They be pulling stunts)

I got your back, but you best to watch your front

'Cause it's the niggas that front, they be pulling stunts

I got your back, but you best to watch your front

'Cause it's the niggas who front (They be pulling stunts)

I got your back so you best to watch your front

'Cause it's the niggas who front, that be pulling stunts

I got your back but you best to watch your front

It's the niggas who front, that be pulling stunts

I got your back, but you best to watch your front

'Cause it's the niggas that front, they be pulling stunts

I got your back, but you best to watch your front

'Cause it's the niggas who front (They be pulling stunts)

I got your back, but you best to watch your front

'Cause it's the niggas that front, they be pulling stunts

I got your back, but you best to watch your front

'Cause it's the niggas who front (They be pulling stunts)

I got your back, but you best to watch your front

'Cause it's the niggas that front, they be pulling stunts

I got your back, but you best to watch your front

'Cause it's the niggas who front (They be pulling stunts)

I got your back, but you best to watch your front

'Cause it's the niggas that front, they be pulling stunts

I got your back, but you best to watch your front

'Cause it's the niggas who front (They be pulling stunts)

[Outro: (LP version only)]

Your technique is magnificent

When cut across the neck

A sound like wailing winter winds is heard, they say

I'd always hoped to cut someone like that someday

To hear that sound

But to have it happen to my own neck is ridiculous

*man gasps for air*