Fighting

[00:14.30] Put me in a serious situation hope I get another chance
[00:15.23] To live life as I know
[00:18.86] 4: 30 was the time, I'm feelin' a pain in my chest
[00:20.66] I guess I smoke too much sess
[00:22.49] Makin' a nigga mo' slow off the doe in Olympian bubblin' under who
[00:27.02] Where's the crew thick mist in the trail
[00:28.88] I'm feelin' pressure off the tess
[00:30.68] Spine advertising swine on Channel 2 when in the same breath
[00:32.46] You tellin' me don't eat from that plate increasin' my blood
[00:36.94] Outbreaks on my skin don't blend with the way I want this thang to flow
[00:39.73] If I can help the cause don't have to treat it with no tricks
[00:43.34] You settin' me cancer on a stick, visualize destruction soon to come
[00:47.07] Throwin' within this city we call Atlantis
[00:49.75] Prayin' like a mantis everyday ain't good in the woods of Southwest
[00:53.39] I stress in my rhymes... fighting for yo' spirit and you mind!
[00:56.98] So what it be like my brother be catching gangrene
[00:58.73] The water be brown in the morning in my sink
[01:01.56] Who that in my eyes some Clampett eaten away by fungi
[01:03.30] Another virus disease, at ease, quick to lead a strike against Haiti
[01:07.87] When half your army in the bed with pains in their back
[01:11.49] And behind their head
[01:12.31] Witch doctors giving more Medicaid but ain't no aid
[01:15.17] But these ain't tha same from 'Nam, didn't give a damn
[01:17.80] Who only wanted Saddam now your hands numb
[01:20.55] Can't run old age before thirty
[01:21.45] This what you wanted when you signed your (hand) 'cock on tha line
[01:25.05] Fightin' for your spirit and your mind, service to my kind...
[01:28.77] Seems like we're fighting for our spirit and mind
[01:33.27] They got us fighting for our spirit and mind
[01:38.64] Still fighting for our spirit and mind
[01:44.17] We can't stop fighting for our spirit and mind
[01:49.57] Multiple stab wounds sticin' thru in the ol' school Cutlass Supreme
[01:54.18] Thirty-five cents to my name and that's fo' a blunt man
[01:57.73] The way thangs goin' today I might as well be dead, so dread
[02:01.33] The voices on the radio got me seamed
[02:04.08] Can't put a smile on my face cuz my pockets ain't straight
[02:07.76] At least not the way I want 'em to be
[02:09.52] Early as phuckk, eight fifty-one
[02:13.18] Last night I barely got some Z's ... sleep... uh
[02:14.02] I can't ol' Burd in the next room havin' nightmares
[02:15.86] It sound like wind blowin' when she weep, speak
[02:18.50] I can't I'm tired on the way to the slave camp...
[02:21.37] I utter very little words, I'm thinkin' about a ciggy I snatched
[02:24.94] From the jaws of death, a sack of crumbled herb ...
[02:27.67] Rollin' down Main Street
[02:29.46] East Point, I swerve, Campbelton Rd, Southside
[02:31.21] Eight fify-five, jacket at bus top standin', sweatin' but, I ain't
[02:34.90] Smilin
[02:35.83] Outside it's twenty below fool I'm ridin' to the liquor store
[02:39.42] Closed that's right I go hotta at this beeso I know
[02:42.17] Who work at the Texaco Gas station, pacin' back down memory lane
[02:45.72] Feelin' strange can't Explain, so bare wit me pleae
[02:49.43] Thru this green light I sees
[02:51.24] That tramp that gave me herpes wreck, wham, crash, stumblin' jumps out
[02:54.83] The ride empty the glock fo', five, D.E.A.D.
[02:59.39] Woke up handcuffed inside Grady
[03:01.19] Tagged with an I-U-D (intoxicated una dank)
[03:03.09] I took two swiggs outts my deuce-deuce, old E
[03:05.76] Now Stephen K-I-N-G had the story all wrong
[03:09.36] Blood last five points, I'm gone
[03:12.03] (Cee-Lo)
[03:12.94] As individuals and as a people we are at war
[03:20.24] But the majority of my side got they eyes open wide
[03:23.82] But still don't recognize what we fighting fo
[03:25.67] I guess that's what I'm writing for to try to shed some light
[03:29.28] But we been in the darkness for so long, don't know right from wrong
[03:32.00] Y'all scared to come near it, you ignore the voice
[03:34.74] In your head when you hear it
[03:35.60] The enemy is after yo' spirit but you think it's all in yo' mind
[03:39.27] You'll find a lot of the reason we behind
[03:41.96] Is because the system is designed to keep our third eyes blind
[03:45.67] But not blind in the sense that our other two eyes can't see
[03:48.37] You just end investing quality time in places you don't even neeed to be
[03:51.93] We don't even know who we are, but the answer ain't far
[03:54.60] Matter of fact its right up under our nose
[03:57.33] But the system taught us to keep that book closed
[03:59.20] See the reason why he gotta lie and deceive is so
[04:01.92] That we won't act accordingly
[04:03.73] To get the blessings we suppose to receive
[04:05.54] Yeah it's true, Uncle Sam wants you to be a devil too
[04:09.14] See, he's jealous because his skin is a curse but what's worse
[04:13.71] Is if I put it in a verse y'all listen to some bullshit first
[04:16.46] We ain't natural born killas, we are a spiritual people
[04:19.19] God's chosen few
[04:20.97] Think about the slave trade when they had boats with
[04:23.69] Thousands of us on board
[04:25.47] And we still was praising the Lord now you ready to die
[04:29.15] Over a coat, a necklace round your throat, that's bullshit
[04:33.68] Black people ya'll better realize, we losin, you better fight and die
[04:38.24] If you got to get yo' spirit and mind back and we got to do it together
[04:42.72] Goodie Mob means, "The Good Die Mostly Over Bullshit"
[04:46.32] You take away one "O" and it will let you know
[04:49.08] "God is Every Man of Blackness"
[04:50.87] The Lord has spoken thru me and the G-Mo-B!
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