Chorus: Children, groovin, women, confusion Then go away, it's time to understand Everyone's got to make a livin Children, groovin, women, confusion Then go away, it's time to understand Everyone's got to make a livin Nineteen-ninety-two and, you and I were fightin LAPD beatings got the whole world frontin My man Rodney King and the Reginald ?Deeney? You could look for justice but I bet you won't find any Because people getting beatin, news keep repeatin Chaos and anger, just surely peakin Yo everybody's runnin, some of them are gunnin Avalanche the block, feel the anger, wantin something 'Cause some of them are frontin They didnt know the reason Emotion in the end made it feel like revolution And yeah, yeah, you can yell out your brains I tell you right now, we got eight years of chains Hook: So hurry up because I'm runnin out of clip Runnin out of time Runnin out of clip Runnin out of time Runnin out of clip Runnin out of time Runnin out of clip (What) Runnin out of time Chorus Nineteen-ninety-seven, reduction of a nation The government is slayin, new laws is what you're facin Next comes the clonin, they're makin new creation Secretly forming soldiers of you and they station No more free education on former segregation Politics's about affirmative activation So make a run for the border Caught by the deporter The immigration caught you but you got to leave your daughter We are slowly being slaughtered So be prepared for the new world order Yeah, yeah, you can yell out your brains I tell you right now, we got eight years of chains Hook Chorus Year two-thousand, what's it really holdin Or is it really right, live beyond on what you're knowing Or is it that technology is what keeps on going Could it be that the end of time is what I'm showing I don't see any grass growin Everything's conquered, we're running out of land And goddamn yo, I'm runnin out of clip I'm almost out of time Runnin out of Damn, I'm almost out of time We could all try now but just look up in the sky We ain't got no ozone left, we are gonna die Crime and corruption, is the only season Is it 'cause the reason is that we out of time Chorus (2x)