Mr. Percy

[Hook: KRS-One]

Have mercy, Mr. Percy

(4 million people out of work right now!)

Can't find a cent to pay my rent

(Half the youth population out of work right now!)

Give me another day

(Homelessness rising up on families!)

So I can try to find my way

(Word up, homelessness!)

And I work (several resumes on e-mail)

And I work (CDs I'm selling my beats)

And I work (part-time at the retail)

And I work (I'm just about to be in the street)

And I work (the cars that I'm driving around)

And I work (will I ever be on my feet again?)

Oh, what we all gon' tell them?

Oh, we telling them this now

[Verse 1: KRS-One]

Frankly I don't see how

You can't see how you really homeless now

When the emergency hits, who really holds you down?

With the state of the economy and the way that it is

Many men are at the door with they wife and they kids

Saying

[Hook: KRS-One]

Have mercy, Mr. Percy

(4 million people out of work right now!)

Can't find a cent to pay my rent

(Half the youth population out of work right now!)

Give me another day

(Homelessness rising up on families!)

So I can try to find my way (Oh!)

And I work (try to drive a taxi cab)

And I work (enrolled in a technical school)

And I work (my friends, my family for a loan)

And I work (dollar cabs and carpools)

And I work (just another day now)

And I work (I'm getting paid now)

Oh, what we all gon' tell them?

Oh, we telling them this now

[Verse 2: KRS-One]

Everywhere across the nation

More people are joining the homeless population

From the south to the north to the west to the east

People can't pay their mortgage or their lease

And last but not least, you better hear what I'm saying

So many men are at the door with they kids saying

[Hook: KRS-One]

Have mercy, Mr. Percy

Can't find a cent to pay my rent

(blow blow blow blow blow! Not getting mercy!)

Give me another day

(4 million people out of work right now! You gotta do something!)

So I can try to find my way ([?] watch this!)

[Verse 3: KRS-One]

We on the brink of revolution, you let it get too hot

So many people tryin' to hang on and just can not

They must've forgot last night's news spot

Read like a news murder plot starring who got shot

And very uplifting, just who got knocked

Very little giving, everybody's heart is locked

And they call this a civilization

Where I can't even find work with proper employment qualifications

Hip-hop is the name of my nation

Where every day is Saturday and twelve months is vacation

Peace love unity having fun

You can tell by now I'm not the average one

[Verse 4: Triune]

Get choked for the dough, get stabbed for the stash

My actions brash, I rap for grabbing the cash

They search for the blacklist faces

So no need checking your ethnicity on applications

High class for the green

How the fuck I make thirty grand a year with Dukes holding a Master's degree?

It makes no sense so I make those cents

Using my mind and using a nine, break bread

The move not orderly until those political figures meet a nigga over Martin Normandy

'Til then a nigga gon' count his stacks

Shoot craps and crack niggas for countless acts

This a war going on outside no man is safe from

I'm Triuno, some call me a great one

Until Bush knee deep in my community

I'm hustling for mine 'til I get an opportunity

[Hook: KRS-One]

Have mercy, Mr. Percy

Can't find a cent to pay my rent

Give me another day

So I can try to find my way