Fighting

Lyrics

Put me in a serious situation hope I get another chance
 To live life as I know
 4: 30 was the time, I'm feelin' a pain in my chest
 I guess I smoke too much sess
 Makin' a nigga mo' slow off the doe in Olympian bubblin' under who
 Where's the crew thick mist in the trail
 I'm feelin' pressure off the tess
 Spine advertising swine on Channel 2 when in the same breath
 You tellin' me don't eat from that plate increasin' my blood
 Outbreaks on my skin don't blend with the way I want this thang to flow
 If I can help the cause don't have to treat it with no tricks
 You settin' me cancer on a stick, visualize destruction soon to come
 Throwin' within this city we call Atlantis
 Prayin' like a mantis everyday ain't good in the woods of Southwest
 I stress in my rhymes... fighting for yo' spirit and you mind!
 So what it be like my brother be catching gangrene
 The water be brown in the morning in my sink
 Who that in my eyes some Clampett eaten away by fungi
 Another virus disease, at ease, quick to lead a strike against Haiti
 When half your army in the bed with pains in their back
 And behind their head
 Witch doctors giving more Medicaid but ain't no aid
 But these ain't tha same from 'Nam, didn't give a damn
 Who only wanted Saddam now your hands numb
 Can't run old age before thirty
 This what you wanted when you signed your (hand) 'cock on tha line
 Fightin' for your spirit and your mind, service to my kind...
 Seems like we're fighting for our spirit and mind
 They got us fighting for our spirit and mind
 Still fighting for our spirit and mind
 We can't stop fighting for our spirit and mind
 Multiple stab wounds sticin' thru in the ol' school Cutlass Supreme
 Thirty-five cents to my name and that's fo' a blunt man
 The way thangs goin' today I might as well be dead, so dread
 The voices on the radio got me seamed
 Can't put a smile on my face cuz my pockets ain't straight
 At least not the way I want 'em to be
 Early as phuckk, eight fifty-one
 Last night I barely got some Z's ... sleep... uh
 I can't ol' Burd in the next room havin' nightmares
 It sound like wind blowin' when she weep, speak
 I can't I'm tired on the way to the slave camp...
 I utter very little words, I'm thinkin' about a ciggy I snatched
 From the jaws of death, a sack of crumbled herb ...
 Rollin' down Main Street
 East Point, I swerve, Campbelton Rd, Southside
 Eight fify-five, jacket at bus top standin', sweatin' but, I ain't
 smilin
 Outside it's twenty below fool I'm ridin' to the liquor store
 Closed that's right I go hotta at this beeso I know
 Who work at the Texaco Gas station, pacin' back down memory lane
 Feelin' strange can't Explain, so bare wit me pleae
 Thru this green light I sees
 That tramp that gave me herpes wreck, wham, crash, stumblin' jumps out
 The ride empty the glock fo', five, D.E.A.D.
 Woke up handcuffed inside Grady
 Tagged with an I-U-D (intoxicated una dank)
 I took two swiggs outts my deuce-deuce, old E
 Now Stephen K-I-N-G had the story all wrong
 Blood last five points, I'm gone
 (Cee-Lo)
 As individuals and as a people we are at war
 But the majority of my side got they eyes open wide
 But still don't recognize what we fighting fo
 I guess that's what I'm writing for to try to shed some light
 But we been in the darkness for so long, don't know right from wrong
 Y'all scared to come near it, you ignore the voice
 In your head when you hear it
 The enemy is after yo' spirit but you think it's all in yo' mind
 You'll find a lot of the reason we behind
 Is because the system is designed to keep our third eyes blind
 But not blind in the sense that our other two eyes can't see
 You just end investing quality time in places you don't even neeed to be
 We don't even know who we are, but the answer ain't far
 Matter of fact its right up under our nose
 But the system taught us to keep that book closed
 See the reason why he gotta lie and deceive is so
 That we won't act accordingly
 To get the blessings we suppose to receive
 Yeah it's true, Uncle Sam wants you to be a devil too
 See, he's jealous because his skin is a curse but what's worse
 is if I put it in a verse y'all listen to some bullshit first
 We ain't natural born killas, we are a spiritual people
 God's chosen few
 Think about the slave trade when they had boats with
 Thousands of us on board
 And we still was praising the Lord now you ready to die
 Over a coat, a necklace round your throat, that's bullshit
 Black people ya'll better realize, we losin, you better fight and die
 If you got to get yo' spirit and mind back and we got to do it together
 Goodie Mob means, "The Good Die Mostly Over Bullshit"
 You take away one "O" and it will let you know
 "God is Every Man of Blackness"
 The Lord has spoken thru me and the G-Mo-B!
 

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Duration
05:45
Key
7
Tempo
88 BPM

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