Public Enemy - Escapism [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

Got to get away
Got to get away from yourself - escapism
Uh get away c'mon
Uh Got to get away from your self
Got to get out uh get out

[verse1]
Is the groove good to you
Like when you lose your thing
Forgetting grits is grocery
And eggs is poultry
Making a living against those making a killing
Super black man got your back
And is back in the building
If the prison is that skin you in
And your cell is sitting up inside your skull
They say you can't get away
From your damn self
When your earth is heaven
And your world be hell
Check your head because
Armageddon's at the foot of your bed
You ain't heard a word I said
Forget them slacks
I'm that throwback that
Threw that throwback
Back on the racks
To get my mind back

Oh say can you see
I get back its still black and white uh like an old TV
In lying color brother
Gots to getaway to the other side uh
Talk about escapism

Got to c'mon now
Escapism
Gotta get away
Uh talk about ?
Got to get out of myself baby
There must be some kind of way up out of here

[Verse 2: Flavor Flav and Chuck D]
You see I never was too good off the top of my head
Cause I want y'all to know exactly what I said
This so-called war in Iraq, over a thousand dead
That's 10 a week even as I speak
Now 33% of black males in jail
That's 55% of black students will fail
They say 85% of black folks forgot
We were slaves once up inside this box
America got folks brains on lock
Forget the connects, some wanna buy what's next
Wear it like some sign up in that chest
Y'all should know papa don't take no mess
If you think your past is irrelevant
Don't you know old soul pays the goddamn rent
That messiah ain't never gonna come
As long as you thinking freedom is free to being dumb (boyee)

Chorus x 2
C'mon escapism
Got to c'mon now
Escapism
Gotta get away
Uh talk about ?
Got to get out of myself
There must be some kind of way up out of here

[verse 3]
[Flavor Flav]
You say that Soul is back
So flip them hits back
[Chuck D]
Damn the fashion
I wanna know where's the passion
Thinking we came a long way baby
Saying poor Michael's psycho
And Prince he's crazy
But what has Bob Mick Sir Paul
Done for you lately?
[Flavor Flav]
How they maintain on your brain
Seems to escape me
[Chuck D]
Heard some ghetto cats
Don't like metal rap
[Flavor Flav]
Hear it and fear it
And they think its all wack
[Chuck D]
They don't even know
[Flavor Flav]
That the blues is black
[Chuck D]
And when i rap I go back to the roots Where I be at
Not some 30 year old who don't know facts
[Flavor Flav]
Who's wild saying things like some juvenile
[Flavor Flav & Chuck D]
Remember 2 million black folks in the penile
Got a world of white folks
Thinking its style
Think I'm hating cause you lack the information
Cause we the FBI still got on file

Escapism c'mon now
Gotta get away
Gotta get out of myself uh
C'mon now