No More Wars

Blood is spilt on the street top

As another revolver goes pop

And a little chavalillo at the age of fifteen

His heart stopped

Now look at the little vato

Who thought he was a sly little vato

Burned his nine lives quick

But what did you expect?

He was running his life full throttle

And the same exact shit is going on across town

Another little cholo is claiming that he's down

So tonight his boys are gonna do a drive-by

Under a full moon, a grooving tune, a gangsta lullaby

And the bullets fly from the Uzi

Why? How many Chicanos gotta die?

Ayo man, what are we doing this for?

No more wars, no more

Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why

Mmm, why can't we live together?

Tell me why, tell me why

All we need, just a little bit of peace in this world

Whittier Boulevard, cruising in my car

And rolling by is a funeral procession

We're killing off our own race

And at the same time you talk about progression?

Why, here's another lesson

Down the street the Westin has got all

Kinds of homicide detectives guessing

I don't talk to the narcos, I didn't see shit

And so I step in the vatos

Being a rat will get you served the ghetto

And all of the homeboys will be out to get ya

There's rules in the street and we all must go by

Or end up with a short stick quick in a drive-by

The trigger was squeezed, the rat ate cheese

And it all went down under a hot summer breeze

Temperature 99.1

A young Chicano dies under the gun

Hey man, what's it all for?

No more wars, no more

Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why

Mmm, why can't we live together?

No more wars, no more wars

All we need, just a little bit of peace in this world, yeah

No more wars, no more wars, no more wars

Mmm, no more wars

Tell me why, tell me why

All the homies are killing each other

Cisco was a cholo from East L.A

Portrayed the image of a gangsta all the way

And just to be down with all his tights

He used to get high each and every night

Hang out on the corner behind the tracks

Slinging them big-ass indo sacks

And rolling in his Riviera

And everybody knew of Cisco's fiera

One day some fools decided to roll up

"Give up the cash or we gonna go upside your head"

Cisco pulled out his cuete and shot one of the vatos dead

And now it's on the front page

I guess it's true what they say

The whole world is a fucking stage

Set in a concrete arena

Crash bust in and that just made Cisco meaner

Yo, I don't know what possessed you

To want to shoot at the police when they came to arrest you

It was like you was tripping off acid

Blam, blam, blam and yo, you kept blasting

The hooters started acting like a gang

And TASC was out to bust that ass

Is this the life you're looking for?

No more wars, no more

Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why

Mmm, why can't we live together?

No more wars, no more wars

All we need, just a little bit of peace in this world, yeah

Everybody wants to live together

Why can't we live together?

Tell me why

Too many brothers dying

Too many mothers are crying

When will we ever learn?

We gotta have some peace in this world

No more wars, no more