Still Holding

[00:08.80]From all the venomous savagery they had for me
[00:11.45]When it’s gone we’ll miss America, fuck all the pagentry
[00:14.54]We can’t be fixed on no fancy tricks too much disparity
[00:17.25]There’s been this cavity saddled over simple anatomy
[00:20.13]Cause damn this place, Brooklyn-born heavy-handed shakes
[00:22.96]That’s a waste, won’t catch me out here marching off abandoned faith
[00:25.87]How they damn the race then erase can’t stand the pace
[00:28.75]Jakes scared of me with backup bullets, vests, and can of Mace
[00:31.59](Hold on, hold on, hold on
[00:33.71]That just got me upset, man, let... let me get off that
[00:36.98]Alright)
[00:37.51]Truth be told, beautiful soul over handsome face
[00:40.23]Everything I state elevate, all they chants disgrace
[00:43.35]My endeavor forever is to treasure what I can’t replace
[00:46.19]The cables out browse four thousand acres grand mistakes
[00:48.98]How I stand in haste through many stages lonely
[00:51.91]Love ain’t just intimate, there’s infinite ways to show me
[00:54.87]I’m at the point where age can slow me, but not using a doctor
[00:58.31]Peruvian maca and Asian Goji
[01:00.43]How I acted through a phase back in the days, they would stone me
[01:03.66]If you're produced to know your roots, stop naming our babies Tobey
[01:06.50]For instance Shaman doing time to raise a Rollie
[01:09.26]Defend threats tryna reach my net like I was raised a goalie
[01:11.94]Life’s cold winds, embrace nights it was frozen
[01:16.75]Knowing one day we’ll be golden
[01:19.62]To that hope I’m still holding
[01:23.59]Still holding
[01:25.35]To that hope I’m still holding
[01:29.41]Still holding
[01:30.20]You've told me grown about my home, we know it as Brooklyn
[01:32.64]With integrity, us being honorable when no one is looking
[01:35.36]When I go dark they know who is cooking
[01:37.73]It was a time before the drama stirred, wasn’t shooken
[01:39.85]Knowing one day we’ll be golden
[01:42.74]To that hope I’m still holding
[01:46.55]Still-
[01:47.17]Young and tempered, I remember only reach for low grapes
[01:49.90]Hype trying to pipe in high school making slow tapes
[01:52.89]Constant strife, wishing for life with no pains, no aches
[01:55.77]Stables getting thinner till that winter had some snowflakes
[01:58.54]Lost friends in the dope chase, out of town cold case
[02:01.46]The big apple is factual, can’t live papal with no papes
[02:04.37]If one of my ahks is rocking might pop in and show face
[02:07.37]All my family got broke, folks never needed probate
[02:09.94]Life’s cold winds, embrace nights it was frozen
[02:14.55]Knowing one day we’ll be golden
[02:17.38]To that hope I’m still holding
[02:21.22]Still holding, holding
[02:26.14]To that hope I’m still holding
[02:30.22]Holding, creative but to face life’s hopeless
[02:34.72]Embrace nights it was frozen
[02:37.64]Knowing one day we’ll be golden
[02:40.76]To that hope I’m still holding
[02:44.37]Holding, holding
[02:49.20]To that hope I’m still holding
[02:53.44]Holding
[02:54.96]To that hope I’m still holding
[02:58.88]Holding, holding
[03:06.22]To that hope I’m still-
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