[Intro]

And uh, I thought I was gonna go mad

But after a few months I had pu-begun to pull myself together

When this house just, turned into a living nightmare

A living nightmare? What was it that caused Binder, a perfectly sane man, to hear chilling sounds that walked through his house

Or suddenly view an apparition in human form

These incidents brought me to the next step in verifying this mans testimony

Please survive, please strive

With binders approval, I brought in specialists

Two men trained in the field of supеrnatural phenomenon

Utilizing the most sophisticatеd equipment available

[Verse 1: ADL]

Let me breathe I feel that I'm chokin' off my welfare

My physical's here, my mindstate's over there

Every day I scheme over tickets and busfare

Daily shit that make Stocktown illegit

Night comes every Saturday around ten

That's when the [?] for hip hop really begins

Step to the S-T-U-R-E

But sucker guards at the door got no love for my company

Fuck 'em, I'm a star I should be V-I-P

Then ask for ID stress me for some entry

What's up, black man got no life in Stocktown?

(You down) Show your true colors when I'm not around

Escape, it's all about escapism (Where ya at?)

Locked in jail and we call it capitalism

Almost twentythree stuck in S-W-E

Help me set it off so my mind can be free

[Verse 2: Steve Thomas]

See conditions that they are creating

Making believe that we are still waiting

For their permission to make conditions

But we'll survive, we'll strive

This is a vibe in all their society

Even if it's a lie it's their reality

And until the change all feel the pain

Of the madness in their community

[Chorus: ADL & Flake & Steve Thomas]

A Stocktown state of mind is what I find myself in

And that's the way I be until when (When?)

Twenty years from now the lights still shinin' (Uh)

As long as there's a top brothers don't stop

We keep climbin' (We're gonna keep climbin')

We keep climbin' We keep climbin' (We'll survive, we'll strive)

Climbin', we keep climbin', we keep climbin' (Gotta keep climbin')

(But we'll survive)

[Verse 3: LightSkinny]

Another Stocktown nigga dwellin' allover the place

Son I'll make another hit and then I'm ghost like face

To the next stop, don't make me vex hops, 'cause I'm ill

Just got out of jail and I'm out to make a mil'

In the streets of depression, no question

And less than a few kid I show you how I do

Comin' through T-Central, my mental be far from gentle

Stocktown state of mind when I enter the center

Now I make like a pro, and 'ceed to the central ave

Go to Royal Viking for a bubble bath

Chillin' in the 'cuzi with mo Cisco than San Fran

I even make that alcoholic crew say damn

Start wilin' on the block, bow down when I'm illin'

Civilized people try to sue like I was sellin'

But I'm not, they just want to see a nigga drop

F that, I'm headin' straight for the fuckin' top

[Verse 4: Steve Thomas]

Ideas propagated by schism's

Love for humanity no humanism

A game, a play that'll end some day

But we can't let it take us away

They play my music they dance my dance

But from me they take a distance

This is not short of insanity

And in Stocktown it's reality

[Chorus: ADL & Flake & Steve Thomas]

A Stocktown state of mind is what I find myself in

And that's the way I be until when (When?)

Twenty years from now the lights still shinin' (Uh)

As long as there's a top (We've got to keep climbin') brothers don't stop

We keep climbin', we keep climbin'

We keep climbin' (We'll survive, we'll strive)

Climbin', (Gotta keep climbin') We keep climbin', we keep climbin' (We will survive)

[Verse 5: LightSkinny & ADL]

We climb to the max until we reach the climax

N-E-O and A-D-L on the mic, drop a fact

Yeah, we set it off when we ready (Ready)

Then we go to blue vision to check the new rockets are ready

So stop frontin' kid you know you've been there

'Cause you took the blue line to the peace-home-square(Mhm)

Yeah Saint Eriks got a nigga goin' tropical

That's how we get down in the mothafuckin' capitol

We take the Five-Ninety-Five, four o' clock in the mornin'

Still knockin' brothas out the ring like Forman (Blaow)

Performin' in Kungsträdgården, on the regular

On Government street I be the ill dispute settler

[?]----- like the store downtown

Saturdays when puff fails do the swing-a-ling sound

So in 1996 we remain in the mix

So here's a middlefinger for all y'all B-S cliques

[Chorus: ADL & Flake & Steve Thomas]

We gotta keep climbin', We'll survive, we'll strive

We've got to keep on climbin' (We keep climbin')

And we will survive

[Outro: LightSkinny & ADL & Flake]

This here is Light Skinny representin' in the mix you know'im sayin?

Once again with the shout outs, word up (Buck)

I wanna say what up to my nigga Chimney Head

Slim my potna in rhyme you know what I'm sayin'

Bazz [?] and Dre, D-sharp the whole clique you know I'm sayin'?

Thug Love, my brother Sha and blaze bla

The list goes on and on

Yeah yeah yeah yo this ya nigga ADL, you know i'm sayin'?

I'd like to say what's up [?] and the force

Skully dead [?] King Floyd, Big Ben and John

[?] Leafnuts, Daddy Boastin, One Eye Red

You know what we said? That's the life in Stocktown

Peace

Keep climbin'

Keep climbin'

We got to keep on climbin'

Gotta keep climbin'