I was born without a father
80 for 20 chance to be
a criminal or a scholar
I straightened my blue collar
for that all mighty dollar
With that comes power plus all
I devour
My mom said id always have it
harder than most
Because being black from the
projects that's how it goes
She moved us to the burbs her
vision was obsurd
But I watched her make it happen
so I listened to her words
Look you can't and won't let it
take you
Life is what you make it
just don't let it make you
Cause it's an ugly world out there
Best friends turn to enemies for
girls out there
We still killing each other for
them pearls out there
Sometimes I can't wait until it
all unfurls I swear
Politicians killin us all and
don't feel nothin'
Same shit different toilent and
we still flushin'
Can't run Can't Hide
Doing my best just to try to get by
Stress got me vexed so of course
I get high like
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Can't run Can't Hide
Doing my best just to try to get by
Stress got me vexed so of course
I get high like
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Gotta soul search to search for
your soul
Only to find that the ones you
love will hurt you the most
Think about it Who else had
you soaking in sorrow
At a bar with a bottle and no
hope for tomorrow
I'm not cynical I'm realistic
Telling your mind that it's
over but you still miss it
Had the grip of a cobra on that
meal ticket
But now you're drunk off that
Cobra and you still sip it
Look Picking up that bottle
never learning your lesson
The reminiscent thoughts now
turn to obsessions
The answers that you had
They turn to the questions
Reconfirming the stress and the
anger turns to depression
The danger's permanent yes and
the flame is burning ya chest and
The spark you had was a flash in
the pan to learn for the next one
Don't run you won't get far
Just take it and embrace it
because when that pain comes
it's gon' hit hard
Can't run Can't Hide
Doing my best just to try to get by
Stress got me vexed so of course
I get high like
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Can't run Can't Hide
Doing my best just to try to get by
Stress got me vexed so of course
I get high like
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Can't Run Can't Hide
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Doing my best Just to try to get by
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Even if you survive
At the end of the day you'll
never make it out alive
It's true I got my ancestors
as proof
Plus my Ma Dukes told me too
when I was a youth
Said to watch out of the haters
negaters sadists inflaters
and greatest of all the fakers
laying rhymes in the booth
Believers that turned to faders
invade us later for data to play us
close as tomatoes when assigned
to the fruit
Plus them chicken heads too
That's why Im flying the coop
Get a Clue There's no telling
what Colonel Mustard'll do
Catch Up and that condiment is
for the Kind of men
That claim to know it all and only
knows what It kind of meant
See ego is a dangerous thing
If deflated you gotta watch
out for the pain that it brings
Creating art is a rat race
But if life's what you make then
we're all artist in THAT way
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