Necessary Evil

By Body Count

On Born Dead

Released on September 6, 1994

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[Intro]

Necessary evil


[Verse 1]

Look outside my window

I still see a fucked up world

Waking up to helicopter and car alarms

Does this happen where you live?

Gunshots sound in my my mind

I don't flinch anymore

When I see niggas in my hood

They're holdin' their dicks tight


[Verse 2]

Yo, fuck my landlord

I'm a step away from clearing this shotgun

To erase the problem

Does this happen where you live?

Just had steak and lobster last night

Now I gotta rob a liquor store

But it seems so normal

Because it's necessary evil


[Chorus]

Car hit my dog, babies die

Raped in a stairwell, cop killed a little girl

Armed robbery, shooter of a drive-by

Smokin' cain, sellin' joints in junior high

Head from a minor, sex with animals

Butthole Surfers, a fucked up rehearsal

Lost pawn ticket, wrecked my father's car

Can't pay my school loan, major jack move

Holy underwear, stuck in the pen

Forced in a gang, plain wrapped food

Fucked up presidents, sleepin' through trash day

Hit a police car, gettin' laid off

Gotta pay taxes, gridlock traffic

Jealous muthafuckas, bitch tried to do me

Hit and run

I got a fat bitch pregnant!


[Post-Chorus]

Necessary evil!


[Verse 3]

Little white kid with a Kool-Aid smile

Training wheels on his bike

Thought he called me a nigga

Pushed that little bastard in traffic so graphic

He was holdin' his bike tight

He was a victim of fucked up explaining

An American example of fucked training

When the fuckin' bus connected, he flew like Knievel

I was just necessary evil


[Chorus]

Car hit my dog, babies die

Raped in a stairwell, cop killed a little girl

Armed robbery, shooter of a drive-by

Smokin' cain, sellin' joints in junior high

Head from a minor, sex with animals

Butthole Surfers, a fucked up rehearsal

Lost pawn ticket, wrecked my father's car

Can't pay my school loan, major jack move

Holy underwear, stuck in the pen

Forced in a gang, plain wrapped food

Fucked up presidents, sleepin' through trash day

Hit a police car, gettin' laid off

Gotta pay taxes, gridlock traffic

Jealous muthafuckas, bitch tried to do me

Hit and run

I got a fat bitch pregnant!


[Outro]

Necessary evil!