All That I've Got Is You
(专辑: Man In The Mirror - 2008)
[Rhymefest] Somebody up and said "'Fest if I
was you, I'd be more bitter" I
looked and said, "If I
thought like you, I'd be more nigga" More hater, more angry black man on an elevator More cryin, less paper, that's when they come and take ya Put you under the
radar, push your record to later Say "It could've been greater", now you a
fuckin waiter, wait up! This is hustle time, revolution muscle mind Over matter but matter of fact, who can fuck with mine? I
was spitting these bars before I
had a
dime Phoney broads sayin they love me, deals that were signed Comin home, shorties getting killed all the
time On the
block over a
crumb of a
crumb, in their prime I'm, prime time, life, crime Sex, drugs, the
Lord of War, slugs, nines Diamond mines, blood lines Niggas say they got no love but we love dimes [Ghostface Killah] Dwellin in the
past, flashbacks when I
was young Whoever thought I'd have a
baby girl and three sons? I'm going through this difficult stage, I
find it hard to believe Why my old earth had so many seeds But she's an old woman, and due to me I
respect that I
saw life for what it's really worth and took a
step back Family ain't family no more, we used to play ball Eggs after school, eat grits cause we was poor Grab the
pliers for the
channel, fix the
hanger on the
TV Rockin each other's pants to school wasn't easy We survived winters, snotty nose with no coats We kept it real but the
older brothers still had jokes Sadly, daddy left me at the
age of six I
didn't know nothin but mommy neatly packed his shit She cried, and grandma held the
family down I
guess mommy wasn't strong enough, she just went down Check it, fifteen of us in a
three-bedroom apartment Roaches everywhere, cousins and aunts was there Four on the
bed, two at the
foot, two at the
head I
didn't like to sleep with Jon-Jon, he peed the
bed Seven o'clock, pluckin roaches out the
cereal box We shared the
same spoon watchin Saturday cartoons Sugar water was our thing, every meal was no thrill In the
summer, free lunch held us down like steel And there were days I
had to go to Tex house with a
note Stating "Gloria can I
borrow some food? I'm dead broke" So embarrassin, I
couldn't stand to knock on they door My friends might be laughin, I
spent stamps at stores Mommy, where's the
toilet paper? Usually newspaper Look, Ms. Rose gave us a
couch She's the
neighbor Things was deep, my whole youth was sharper than cleats Two brothers with muscular dystrophy, it killed me But I
remember this, moms would lick her finger tips To wipe the
coal out my eye before school wit her spit Case worker had her runnin back to face the
face I
caught a
case, housin tried to throw us out of our place Sometimes I
look up at the
stars and analyse the
sky And ask myself was I
meant to be here?... Why? [Rhymefest] Huh, I
hear ya Ghost, it's hard growin up black But look to God and say...