Trying to keep my above water Selling myself short to the fucking quota Still there's niggas at my to get my paper Stacking up in the bank, the layers on the Thinking jimmy, tami, oh it's 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 it's autographs I be Instead of police Caught scheming, not pulling capers, no fed Just mental What you dealing the angelic uplift It's a way to save everything with gift (yeah) Now a seed to a was to be (yeah) A boy to a man comes up quickest like a You really understand why you gone and dead So when your comes remember what I said Human'll find to tell a lie Take my past and don't show me I can fly Sly like stone, on, you say peace I relate homes, I'm on the fucking streets Believe it or not, I'm sure there be situations When dirty approach me joe, I'm on probation Hesitating could get me can I do? mildew? Can I take your place on your next to The islands of alto, so it's going down like I'm to bat dropping wits on wax To fit the mix of the rich and scan'lous Can't let 'em handle us any of way, fuck it And run away, I want it torn joe I think they gay, wanna play my shit up north But okay, jealousy can go a long way And what goes around comes around in the
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Have you ever thought about what it be like If woke up and said "fuck work" of small talk, people caught up in this thing I try to relax, but I stay shaking the blue flame It keeps coming, this and that, and this Another me, well I add him to the list Flows and flows, with the girls with the tight Saying anything to get off in these back Irritating like what's on thirties Ain't looking for no more friends, I got buddies A thousand with thirty cents to their name I got enough pine but I can't the flame Sweet like honeysuckles, like that cha cha on the green Jumping and rooms with large laughter Original gene grafter, more and ways to eat Brews tested by the astronauts, turn the turn the up Listen to what I Cnn all day in your eyes and head
No can I ask when I'm in your presence Now hard to tell whether you're trying to hurt or help me At the bottom of barrel scraping time I promise to stand for self-determination Instead of always taking from Keeping the color as you and me, continue to battle dna Let's travel to a remote city get back, have Unravel and break the chains of chemical Plastic can eventually explode bits and of my soul Shattering, not being put back together We can rule, but still brothers won't use tool In between shoulders, click Hearts cold as bricks, nipples better way to cripple An race on the paper chase Getting my toes stepped on, then kicked in my Every I open my mouth I represent the south Dirty red, it was the lifestyle I led Worshipping vanity, out of wedlock Locked in yesterday's of secrets, I fled Went sugar to sheet rock Get your rocks, sweet licks turn By the hour, over on flower If that light on that meant go Say what you really mean, I For all the women I abused as a got four fifths out this dumpster
Compositions should be able to make the reflections of living Why every breath is Appreciating, waiting Letting do the educating In order to Sunshine and the rain are needed Or the seed can't It's me some form of inner vision How the paragraphs are prepared with evidence that this is no coincidence We've been Judge not by my color but my character's content In no way is this an to claim to be exempt From my people's situations, but I moral obligations See I want to be all with god Long conversations at night god My arms are gonna always be too to fight with god To all this not be appealing But I help feeling the way I do I realize that my won't come from any of you See everybody got a light under the sunshine But unselfishly I still want to share And you choose to do is on you You've got to on your own feet cause I ain't got but two I can't you for not knowing But I for you not wanting to learn Nor for asking, but I could for you not to earn No I can't, cause somebody even had to tell me So this music is my sacrifice, so I'll be Determinated and dependable, to directly And use the correctly So forget the gold And uh, and uh Forget the bald Forget it sound Just what I said