This is a song about sadness

Shootin' up and gettin' high

Shootin' up and gettin' high

Baby, baby, we ain't got nothing to lose

Shootin' up and gettin' high with my baby

Gettin' high, gettin' high

Shootin' up and gettin' high with my baby

Baby, baby, we ain't got nothing to lose

Shootin' up and gettin' high with my baby

Gettin' high, gettin' high

He lived about two train stops away

I was a train ride away from heaven

We would signify about politics, low income housing

Birth control and abortion

The capitalistic hand around my throat

Shootin' up dope just to cope in this dehumanizing society

We both found God when he O. D'd

Shootin' up and gettin' high with my baby

Baby, baby, we ain't got nothing to lose

Shootin' up and gettin' high with my baby

Gettin' high, gettin' high

Shootin' up and gettin' high with my baby

Baby, baby, we ain't got nothing to lose

Shootin' up and gettin' high with my baby

Gettin' high, gettin' high

He found beauty in my black skin

Amidst the Cover Girl and Clairol ads

Makin' no mistake, what's white is right

Livin' in a world where the TV shouts

"Forget where you come from! "

And damn, I thought I was shootin' up Africa in my veins

White man's voodoo slow-fucking my brain

My baby says the white man fights wars

And enslaves

All in God's name

Shootin' up and gettin' high with my baby

Baby, baby, we ain't got nothing to lose

Shootin' up and gettin' high with my baby

Gettin' high, gettin' high

Shootin' up and gettin' high with my baby

Baby, baby, we ain't got nothing to lose

Shootin' up and gettin' high with my baby

Gettin' high, gettin' high

What ya trying to achieve with your sun tan lotion?

You wanna keep me down, keep me down

Revolution against this racist institution

The white man shall forever sleep with one eye open

Dehumanize me

Set aside and criticize

I'm livin' in the midst of genocide

I hear voices

Voices are what I hear

I hear voices

Voices are what I hear

Uprise: would you die, would you die for your rights?

Uprise: would you die, would you die for your rights, baby?

Uprise: would you die, would you die for your rights?

Shootin' up and gettin' high with my baby

Baby, baby, we ain't got nothing to lose

Uprise: would you die, would you die for your rights?

Gettin' high, gettin' high

Shootin' up and gettin' high with my baby

Baby, baby, we ain't got nothing to lose

So if there's a Hell below, we're all going to go

Gettin' high

So with this shit I trip, close my eyes

To spread my wings and fly

My turntables from blue and green

(Gettin' high)

Givin' not sane

So if there's a Hell below, we're all gonna go

Yo, so with this shit I trip

close my eyes (Shootin' up and gettin' high with my baby)

To spread my wings and fly

Just shootin' up and gettin' high with

my baby (Gettin' high, gettin' high)

Shootin' up and gettin' high with my baby

Baby, baby, we ain't got nothing to lose

Gettin' high, gettin' high

Shootin' up and gettin' high with my baby

Gettin' high, gettin' high

Shootin' up and gettin' high with my baby

Baby, baby, we ain't got nothing to lose