Trying to my head above water Selling myself short to the fucking quota there's niggas at my heels to get my paper Stacking up in the bank, the on the cake-a Thinking like jimmy, tami, oh low down Niggas be getting mad as I go 'round pac The shit don't stop, I hid the rock in my Did my day and a half, now autographs I be signing Instead of police scheming, not pulling capers, no fed time Just healing you dealing with? the angelic uplift It's a way to save everything with your (yeah) Now a seed to a was to be (yeah) A boy to a man comes up like a dream You really don't why 'til you gone and So when your comes Just what I said Human'll find to tell a lie Take away my past and show me I can fly Sly like stone, it's on, you say I relate homes, I'm on the fucking streets Believe it or not, I'm sure there be calmer When dirty cops approach me joe, I'm on Hesitating could get me What can I do? Can I take your place on your next to The islands of alto, so it's going like that I'm to bat dropping wits on wax To fit into the mix of the rich and let 'em handle us any kind of way, fuck it And run away, I want it torn joe I think they gay, don't wanna my shit up north But that's okay, can go a long way And what goes around around in the a-town
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Have you ever thought about what it would be If everybody woke up and "fuck work" Webs of small talk, caught up in this thing I try to relax, but I shaking like the blue flame It keeps coming, this and that, and this Another suing me, I add him to the list Flows and flows, the girls with the tight clothes Saying anything to get off in these doors Irritating like what's on them looking for no more friends, I got enough buddies A thousand attempts with thirty cents to name I got enough pine but I can't the flame Sweet like honeysuckles, country like that cha cha on the Jumping fences and rooms with large Original gene grafter, and more ways to eat Brews tested by the astronauts, turn the the watts up Listen to what I Cnn all day in your eyes and your
No can I ask when I'm in your presence Now it's hard to tell whether you're trying to hurt or me At the bottom of this barrel time I promise to stand for self-determination Instead of always from cool Keeping the same as you and me, continue to battle dna Let's travel to a remote get back, have mercy Unravel and the chains of chemical dependency Plastic can explode bits and pieces of my soul Shattering, just not being put together We can rule, but brothers won't use that tool In between their shoulders, Hearts cold as bricks, nipples what way to cripple An entire race on the paper Getting my stepped on, then kicked in my face Every time I open my mouth I represent the like red, it was the lifestyle I led Worshipping vanity, fornicating out of Locked in yesterday's trunk of secrets, I from sugar to sheet rock Get your rocks, sweet turn sour By the hour, over on flower If that light went on meant go Say you really mean, I atone For all the women I abused as a got four fifths out this dumpster
Compositions be able to make the connections From reflections of Why every breath is Appreciating, waiting Letting do the educating In to know Sunshine and the are both needed Or the seed can't It's me some form of inner vision How the are prepared with precision Unveiling evidence this is no coincidence We've been Judge not by my skin color but my content In no way is this an to claim to be exempt From my people's situations, but I have moral See I want to be all with god Long conversations at night god My arms are always be too short to fight with god To all this not be appealing But I can't help the way I do I realize my reward won't come from any of you See everybody got a little under the sunshine But unselfishly I still want to mine And you choose to do is on you got to stand on your own feet cause I ain't got but two I can't knock you for not But I could for you not to learn Nor for asking, but I could for you not to earn No I can't, cause even had to tell me twice So this music is my sacrifice, so I'll be Determinated and dependable, to demonstrate And use the correctly So the gold teeth And uh, and uh the bald head Forget it sound remember what I said