[00:40.88]There ain't no happy endings, 'cause nothing really ends
[00:43.63]When your life is over, another begins
[00:45.91]And that's the way it works in the circle of life
[00:48.25]Balancing those good days with the times of strife
[00:50.85]There ain't no happy endings, 'cause nothing really ends
[00:53.54]When this life is over, another begins
[00:55.84]And that's the way it works in the circle of life
[00:58.34]Balancing these good days in these times of strife
[01:01.34]I'm just trying to make it
[01:02.03]Life's precious for granted I'll never take it
[01:03.69]Every breath I breathe to me is sacred
[01:05.84]Back when I was young, my only love was football and my mama
[01:08.58]Learn to use curse words before I ever used a comma
[01:11.19]Little bad ass
[01:12.19]All I liked in school was gym and art class
[01:13.99]Life's changin', I was age ten when my pop passed
[01:16.43]His love for cancer sticks and alcohol prove to be tragic
[01:18.78]My fam's seen it all we became immune to havoc
[01:21.22]My lyrics is satisfaction to those who use to be addicts
[01:24.07]Soothin' the beast within all those who use to be savage
[01:26.37]I advocate the acronym F.U.B.U. speak to
[01:29.01]As if my tongue was tattooed with the word uhuru
[01:31.61]Using my freestyle to emancipate mind states
[01:34.05]**** 21, I'd like to live to see 9-8
[01:36.25]But this world's got me going bananas like a primate
[01:38.85]People you thought you knew full of surprises like a blind date
[01:41.60]And I hate
[01:42.55]Cash flashing *****s with a passion
[01:44.25]More to life than dollars and rockin' the latest fashion
[01:46.50]Seems like we either wanna play ball or be assassins
[01:49.09]While children go to bed to lullabies of guns blastin'
[01:51.95]No matter the weather
[01:52.90]I'm striving to make it better
[01:54.10]But my motto is a contradiction "Never say never!"
[01:56.79]I will not
[01:57.69]I remain poetic like Gil Scott
[01:59.59]So stand up, get up
[02:00.70]My people keep your head up!
[02:02.09]And live everyday like it's your last
[02:04.09]'Cause life only get harder as time goes past
[02:06.54]And yo, the sun might not come out tomorrow
[02:09.39]Don't let your life end in sorrow
[02:11.54]That's why you live everyday like it's your last
[02:14.15]'Cause life only get harder as time go past
[02:16.69]And yo, the sun might not come out tomorrow
[02:19.39]Don't let your life end in sorrow
[02:22.59]There ain't no happy endings, 'cause nothing really ends
[02:25.04]When your life is over, another begins
[02:27.49]And that's the way it works in the circle of life
[02:29.84]Balancing those good days with the times of strife
[02:33.21]There ain't no happy endings, 'cause nothing really ends
[02:35.12]When your life is over, another begins
[02:37.52]And that's the way it works in the circle of life
[02:39.86]Balancing those good days with the times of strife
[02:42.51]I try to live day by day without a fear or a worry
[02:45.15]It's no time to waste I make moves in a hurry
[02:47.76]Used to be so clear now my vision's getting blurry
[02:50.31]Streets is hotter than Tabasco sauce on chicken curry
[02:52.81]******s fly from guns with no target in particular
[02:55.41]Fatally hittin' ya
[02:56.80]Leavin' bodies perpendicular
[02:58.06]To those still existin'
[02:59.36]Silencers hissin'
[03:00.60]Piercin' the darkness
[03:01.56]Bringin' forth another carcass
[03:03.20]Total bedlam, swear these streets is infested
[03:05.45]Filled with the many horrors that the devil manifested
[03:08.21]Children molested
[03:09.20]Nuclear weapons being tested
[03:10.85]Somehow I avoided being shot or arrested
[03:13.36]Brothers tried to bring it to me
[03:14.62]Send slugs through me
[03:15.67]Almost was bodied thrice back when I was just a juvy
[03:18.01]Hard to deal thought about putting one in my own temple
[03:20.67]Permanent scars on my physical and my mental
[03:23.12]Sometimes I'm glad my niece is no longer around to see this
[03:25.71]Not a trace of unity society's in pieces
[03:28.36]Liquor spattered on concrete to mourn those that we miss
[03:30.66]Watch day and night, controlled by unseen leashes
[03:33.31]Watch day and night, controlled by unseen leashes
[03:35.80]Watch day and night, controlled by unseen leashes
[03:43.30]And live everyday like it's your last
[03:45.70]'Cause life only get harder as time goes past
[03:48.73]And yo, the sun might not come out tomorrow
[03:50.93]Don't let your life end in sorrow
[03:53.23]That's why you live everyday like it's your last
[03:55.73]'Cause life only get harder as time go past
[03:58.42]And yo, the sun might not come out tomorrow
[04:01.02]Don't let your life end in sorrow
[04:03.56]There ain't no happy endings, 'cause nothing really ends
[04:06.01]When your life is over, another begins
[04:08.36]And that's the way it works in the circle of life
[04:10.96]Balancing those good days with the times of strife
[04:13.35]There ain't no happy endings, 'cause nothing really ends
[04:16.16]When your life is over, another begins
[04:18.55]And that's the way it works in the circle of life
[04:20.89]Balancing those good days with the times of strife
[04:23.50]Balancing those good days with the times of strife
[04:25.95]Balancing those good days with the times of strife