(For all that worth) (To in the spotlight)
What if was simple as a hug? What if my partner wasn't crippled a drug? What if my homie never caught a slug? What if our parents actually gave a Another black suit, another suit Police to see another black shoot His mother's up smearing on my arms, cryin' I'm the only son that she's got now that he's gone What if the ghetto never an instrumental? And we didn't this rap shit all we had was metal? You telling me if we shoot a ball Our still got shooting involved? And if I never left out of Denver that winter for new beginnings My father his business and traded family for riches? You telling me that my auntie will still a house to live in And JoJo wouldn't be writing me from But it this is life Deal it or get dealt with I'm in my room smoking like I'm selfish Cause' some days the sun's hard to Dad turns his son his face
But look closer see the heart of a Sticks and stones couldn't damage my harder then iron 170 Pounds with the of a giant So defiant I pop a Valium, up the volume up the volume Turn up the up the volume
For all that it's To in the spotlight All of my come to life And all it was And all it could be Is in the darkness of the night
Why should I (To in the spotlight) Why should I myself for you? You'd let me (To in the spotlight) You'd let me die for you
Look, what if money wasn't part of Would the I used to be friends with never left? What if making a name didn't with regrets? I that fame's a pre-cursor to death Death of a friendship, death of a family, of a man The misunderstood are always dead before understand Staring at ceiling fans, chop up milligrams, a pentagram Lucifer's not a rumor in the band, (damn) and vomit on my Converse Bright lights and packed And right next to the gun that's on my Are plastic bottles of peer pressure And I'm ready to cave, I in a cage How can I be a hero I'm the one needing saved Forty-eight days of this fast lane living Me and my entourage no Jeremy Piven, better to burn out then fade away is what Kurt said I the same until I saw his daughter and thought as a father if tomorrow, the only I could spoil her was dying? Started crying then popped a turned up the volume
Turn up the up the volume Turn up the
For all that it's To live in the All of my come to life And all it was And all that it be Is lost in the darkness of the
Why I die? (To in the spotlight) Why should I myself for you? let me die? (To in the spotlight) let me die inside for you
So what you do the cop lights Turn into a and a spotlight? And everyone around you starts to hate 'cause you got And feel entitled I'm supposed to stop living my life? this ain't 2Pac, this ain't Em's show This ain't Jigga man, that Kells flow This that nineteen-double-X rep so to my life here's a ticket to the next show (Spotlight) Welcome to my life here's a ticket to the show