Take A Look Around Lyrics - Singles - Master Ace

I got something I want y'all to do 

Take a look around 

Take a look around, take a look around and ask yourself: why? 

See all those people on the other side of town, livin large and postin high? 

Take a look around, see that bumrush to this liquor store? 

He sold out of thunderbird, but I got to say more 

Take a look around as the wealthy and rich 

Go to plush parties and do-si-do together, ain't that a bitch? 

Cause they're movin on while most of us sit back complainin 

Bout, "ain't nuff opportunities for our people", like it's always rainin 

But take a look around, cause I see plenty of sunshine in the sky 

Maybe next time, instead of complainin, you go out and get a piece of the pie 

Take a look around 

Take a look around 

Take a look around as more young people take their eyes off the prize 

See my man simon talkin bout he's gonna put a kit 

And a rag-top on that 560 s-e-c he buys? 

Take a look around at the music man on the corner playin his sax 

Fillin the air with jazz 

He's a one-man symphony, see that 2 dollars in change in his hat? 

Yo, that's all that brother has 

This is just a little letter about the situations we live in 

Take a look around and realize: to succeed we just can't give in 

Now take a look around 

Hey brother, take a look around 

Hey sister, take a look around 

Now money made is not necesserally money earned 

But those who earn money seem to have a lot less 

And not very often are those tables ever turned 

But then again, money's not a measure of success 

The power of 3, you see, is ever present 

Slide and ride this groove, to get the meanin 

Only a true king can call someone a peasant 

You hold a microphone, but for a throne I find you fiendin 

Pursuit of happiness and money are not the same 

There is some overlap, but they're still separate goals 

Because it's possible to have one without the other, a shame 

Some don't realize it, so they sell away their souls 

Take a look around 

Take a look around 

As I walk through grand central I see so very many 

Brothers and sisters that are down on their luck 

Is there really pie, and they just aren't gettin any? 

Or is it cause they're lazy and they just don't give a fuck? 

Walkin through the park I see bam-bam playin celo 

4-5-6, bam just lost 3 g's and a kilo 

Who says they only play for kicks? 

Take a look around 

Take a look around 

I remember jackie, when jackie was a hottie 

Jeans used to fit her like the skin upon a grape 

Me and every other brother fiened for her body 

But she's smokin, so now look at her shape 

Now mrs green goes to church like every single sunday 

And she had three sons, ron, mike and dale 

Maybe if she'd done a little bit more than just pray 

Ron wouldn't be dead, and the other two, they wouldn't be in jail 

I remember mr. tee, he used to walk with a limp 

He had a wooden leg, y'know, cause he lost it in the war 

Maybe if this country had made some attempt 

To take care of their veterans, mr. tee, he wouldn'ta have to die poor 

Take a look around 

Hey - brothers, sisters 

Take a look around