21 years of my (4x)
21 in the house (21 years in my lifetime) Ill B Uh (like that) You to recognize
21 of pure bullshit It makes me bang my head on the walls And do some shit all straight swarms in the malls Mentality, not where it should be you see red and white lights break the night skies Reflection of a mad man in the Not another brother dies, another in knees start to buckle up And fall they see their child outlined in chalk Silence broken by shots or screams knives cuttin through your flesh Cold steal blood streams The ponds are grim, but they froze if do it right or bring luxury Man for real, it makes me run the drug deal I'm sick of all this change, pennies, nickels, and dimes My wants the bills, every day flat meals this lifetime, struggling needs, stretch a dollar like a pack of Ramseys It's all that you can see, that you can be something when you had Frontin just to be down, but gettin clowned by your peers That swat fights happened at Nathan's every year I Never seen my dad since 9 Maybe before or after I don't know But I know that time So I rely on my family My and brothers, and my boys is the first before these others And try to be strong the hard times And times, my heart dies every time my mom cries
CHORUS: (2x) ("21 of my lifetime" repeats through chorus)
All my I kept my eyes on the prize But every time I reached for the prize it I wonder what's on, but I gots to move I keep my head and I gotta stay strong
I up in the air to see blue skies but grey clouds all the same, it always rain Leavin on my face stains I try to the worry and sad Sittin reminiscing on my dad And we never had And g's for lead I repeat to my cause I love you all truly But nowadays be acting unruly So I live for now without forgettin the Cause I never what time's left in my life glass I through Oz Not coming in bullet wounds or in some squad cars But shit is this the repetoir We all went to war, 45 in the car Situation's deep, influenced by veterans up in the street Biz, now street kids to the game, unmarked cars and plain clothes roaming the terrain (In ofclub blood stains) A mark of an Livin up and no But all the latest Custom made links and is my pysche Now could this be, out of Is this where fate me to be My out of control stress on my mind (oh) The of no return All my Richmond niggas know the
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I walk the future on a narrow path But every step I it gives me flashbacks upon the past Like the I got stabbed Andguns to my brain, man this is insane Sometimes I I was addicted to Novacane Cause leave the pain away, fade away, take my soul See day Dwellin upstairs my grandma and grandpa Cross my heart, racin I would be testin stamina And everywhere I look I'm white picket finces But reality I'll see my boys gettin sentenced That's what I'm seein all So the picket fences All I see is elevators down But discouraged, nah I where I wanna be Just smilin, like the island Cruisin on the ave in the cad And the sound press on the prodigy Minus DJs and the L-T the P me Parents leave a child So they grew up and to be I can't manifest Crew All paranormal, to my peoples God
21 of my lifetime