It's All a Struggle

[Hook: KRS] + (guest)

It's all a struggle (tryin to make it day to day)

It's all a struggle (from my hood to around your way)

It's all a struggle (single parents all by theyself)

It's all a struggle (diseases decreasin your health)

It's all a struggle (fiends swearin that's they last puff)

It's all a struggle (hustler tryin to avoid handcuffs)

(No matter what you do, who you are or where you from)

(Rich poor black white, at the end of the day)

[Verse One: KRS-One]

It's all a struggle - and most people's struggles are doubled

You ain't the only one with a challenge facing some trouble

Look at the woman chewed up by the dog with no muzzle

Or the workers that got trapped underground in that tunnel

Some kids are playing in pools, others in puddles

When they listen to the news the propoganda is subtle

But it's time for you to know that the cryin got to go

Release the guilt that you built and let it flow

Slow and low, that is the tempo

Move slow and on the low, this you gotta know

You don't get the muscles without the hard struggles

You ain't the only one out here tryin to get dough

From the hustler to the preacher to the government leaders

From the airline pilot to the chef to the teachers

We linked in the same huddle, in the same tussle'n'bustle

Cause at the end of the day, it's all a struggle

[Hook]

[Verse Two: KRS-One]

It's all a struggle - but don't let the challenges bug you

Or the government drug you, or the thieves in the street

Beat and mug you - build your tunnel under the rubble

Come up on the other side eye to eye with the trouble

Look at the Twin Towers crumble

Look at the religious leadership stumble, everybody struggles

But not everybody comes through nifty, it's fifty/fifty

The city itself will outrun you quickly

Whether you be healthy or sickly

Whether you be wealthy or thrifty, ugly or pretty

Everybody's tryin to get 50's and 100's

I taught this at UCLA just off Sunset

Now run get "Ruminations"

It's a book that I published for the healing of this nation

In just a few chapters we run through, some possible solutions

Cause at the end of the day

[Hook]

[KRS-One]

It's all a struggle