What is sacrifice?

(We sacrifice) {repeat throughout song}

N.P.G. in mass attack, Sonny, if U please

Church if U will, please turn 2 The Book of Victor

We'd like 2 start at the top, if U don't mind

(Go'n say it preacher) {repeat throughout song}

I was born on a bloodstained table

Cord wrapped around my neck

Epileptic 'til the age of seven

I was sure heaven marked the deck



CHORUS:



We sacrifice - I know joy lives 'round the cover (Towards the cell down on the corner)

We sacrifice - One day I'll visit her I'm gonna (Down on my block I'm just a loner)

We sacrifice - When she tell me everything (Tell me)

That's when the angels sing (Sacrifice)

That's when the victory is sho'nuff (Sho'nuff down with the sacrifice)

We sacrifice (Hit me)



Mama held up her baby 4 protection

From a man with a strap in his hand

Ask 'lil Victor 'bout pain and rejection

U think he don't when he do understand



CHORUS



S.A.C.R.I.F.I.C.E

Sacri, sacrifice

Sacrifice



If U'll turn the page

1967 in a bus marked, "Public Schools"

Rode me and a group of unsuspecting political tools

Our parents wondered what it was like 2 have another color near

So they put their babies 2gether 2 eliminate the fear

We sacrifice - yes, we did

Fighting one another

We sacrifice - all because of color

The angel of hate - she taught me how 2 kick her

If she called me anything but "Victor" (U mean like "nigger"?)

If the only thing that tells is Father Time

Then sacrifice is a mutha sublime - we love it

Listen mutha, we sacrifice

Well, well, well, well (What is sacrifice?)



Hold your text, Deacon

Never understood my old friends a laughing (Ha ha ha)

They got high when everything else got wrong (Pass the bowl...)

Dr. King was killed and the streets - they start burnin'

When the smoke was cleared, their high was gone

Education got important, so important 2 Victor

Even more important than Ripple and weed

Bernadette's the lady - and she told me (What'd she say?)

"Whatever U do, son, a little displicine is what U need" (A little discipline is what U need)

Is what U need, U need 2 sacrifice



CHORUS



(What is sacrifice?)

We sacrifice (Hey yeah)

S.A.C.R.I.F.I.C.E.

(Joy around the corner) {repeated til end}

(We sacrifice, we're gonna.. whoop!) (How can we..)

Excuse me, y'all

We don't mean 2 take up your time

But we got something heavy on our minds, whoo

Yes we do

Sometimes, U got 2 leave the one U love

Somebody, anybody, everybody wave your hand

Around every corner, there's another sacrifice

But U got 2 do the best U can

Say U got 2 go through it (Go through it)

We got 2 go through it, y'all

Everybody, yeah (Say it now, say it now, Tommy come on, say it now)

(Lord have mercy, my feet)

Lord, I might get tired but I, I gotta keep on

Walking down this road

Gotta keep on walking down this road - gonna reach my destination, yeah

My name will be Victor-or-or

Amen