Look out, the sun is out while raining The devil's wife must be Remember that? It's work Elbows in and up and the court
'Cause they play ball long after dark at Sykes Smelled the before it came But that don't the game Intense inside the twelve feet
Flip the mode back on the road set in and watch my woodgrain I let my window down and let the in Since I was knee high the thing we had was The peach plaza in the sky
Things the same no more Everyday my city seems to grow and Gotta blow a bed for my back I can't take the hardwood floors Crooked had me working in the warehouse from 8 to 4 so
Gipp know it is to work for them foes For a check that don't mean shit, more bills keep in But ain't no saving to scrape up a buck for a box of Newports But after I found out they was fucking with the tobac I stopped Its like killing with a glock (Pow)
Its rough, prices going up, giving in To the rockets and hernon homes is By the city to be but ain't nothin' said on the down low never in the mainstream, it ain't king
To be the full time, blow a man these you get years And even though my cousin writes me the pen I always think about how we kicked it at the fo' he went in next?
My slick partner is gone Went to handle a little business made it back home I wonder what his told his son on
I can't escape the where ever I go, shit Always into something, 'cause I wanna be Pulling in my blood, it seems I'm mean, 'cause of my look I blast off on ya ass and write another book
It too many times in the cage Now I'm on the front looking at myself I'm on the run, never to be seen by the A fugitive, plus I got a life to
State by state, is this just a it seems like it just a figure Standing in the mirror the back why I'm swinging my axe
Every time, so I miss, I can be hit 'Cause I'm my state of mind 'Cause I know one day you go in a life of crime
Either the pen or a one way So I'm asking, "What it be? do I solve? Nobody but me, see?
When I was a youth used to think I was Never thought I be hit, ready to stand my turf Niggaz can't understand how it work, the plan? We our own people for this bullshit
Scared straight, wanna There's one way outta this crooked county with a Coming to get me I'd be on the run Hoping to find a better day without guns in my face
I'm not the criminal, your probation my occupation? Selling my dubbs on the 'Cause I gotta eat, on
Am I awake or is just another dream? I pinch invisible bars cover my cage Done lost all of time in my own mind
Unaware of the world in front or Be To catch up myself Evil doers steady
be leaching off of my wealth Can't for my death But got me up Ain't man
you got false nuts Bouncing like rubber off the walls The life we to be living y'all crackers got boxed up
We ain't even the men But yet my mind of confusion witnesses waking me up out my slumber Using white rice and
Stomach aching, be hunger For the taking at the of my barrel Fuck ass and being nice ain't got me But a frown too high to get down, hold on
You don't know me and I tryna claim I be knowing you But I do understand you going through like you running outta time In and out of
And ain't gon' be able to rhyme damn It must be hard to hold on your faith is gone Mmmm, make it all alone Sometimes you gotta swallow your and let the Lord decide You can't hide from the truth, I know we've all
And I it's hard to believe in what you can't see "Well, shit nigga what you keep telling me to hold on I'm in the ghetto with no where to go, I gotta slang that blow" "You call tryna teach, seems like I'm outta reach 'Cause I don't wanna hear another is all I know how to get up, get out and get so fuck that shit"
Hold on, be strong, it ain't be that long Them folks won't do you The name of the song is hold on, be It ain't gon' be that long, them folks won't do you The name of the song is hold on, is on
Ey, now I'm chillin' in the lounge and dis girl gon' in the bathroom She said, "Damn you look cute but why you got no tattoos?" I said, "I come to look cute, cool came to cut!" "And damn you look cute, why you got no butt?"