Cousin Of Death
(专辑: A Brand You Can Trust - 2009)
Glory fades and glory days ain't always what they seem Give all I
got and make my salaat and dream my broken dreams I
crawl inside, ball up and hide, tuck my pain away And hope to God I
fall into a
sleep where I
can stay We all got bills to settle, we all got a
price to pay And if I
make it through the
night I
can fight another day They say it's better to burn out than it is to fade away I
just hope to God I
can fall into a
sleep where I
can stay It was a
couple of years ago that I
started becoming numb No one could understand where all my words were coming from Having visions of a
nine-to-five, a
wife, a
blunt, a
son Of a
life of hustle getting by with some of the
running gun Is it best to be a
crumb? My ex says he's a
bum Lashing out in violence whenever my destiny it hung In the
balance, rum, I'm drinking gallons, some think that my flows Are more poetic than the
poems of Edgar Allen Poe But I
know that I'm at a
challenge though I
can hold an old Calico to my dome and let my talents go Shit, I
spent my whole life around the
violence so I
planted seeds of hate oh I
let my habits grow I
slept with the
homeless, I
copped with the
fiends Lost the
love inside my heart, I
even forgot what it means Seen the
ripest nights turn into the
rottenest schemes But through it all I
have never forgotten my dreams When the
gutters fill with blood that's spilled from friends that pass away And memories of eulogies while standing by their graves Just trying to survive we wind up living lives like slaves I
hope to God I
can fall into a
sleep where I
can stay We all got beef to settle, we all got demons to slay And if I
pray all through the
night I
can fight another day They say it's better to burn out than it is to fade away I
just hope to God I
can fall into a
sleep where I
can stay Rest in peace to my homie Sob I
stand before an altar of open sepultures and coffins I
heard Javier got killed, it didn't seem real With an army of goons drinking straight vodka to deal We live and die by the
gun, wear our hearts on our sleeves Even though our compassion's destined to die on the
streets What's left over a
cold hollow murder machine With an appetite for malevolence, perversion, and greed When one of us dies we don't really learn anything Outside the
funeral doing bumps, burning trees Plotting revenge, crying over fallen angels Sometimes your friends die the
most awkward strangers I
can't lie, sometimes this life makes me a
stranger to myself But I'm pulling myself together, it's bigger than just me As I
spit this bear witness to truth My unborn seed listens while I
spit in the
booth Glory fades and glory days ain't always what they seem Give all I
got and make my salaat and dream my broken dreams I
crawl inside, ball up and hide, tuck my pain away And hope to God I
fall into a
sleep where I
can stay We all got bills to settle, we all got a
price to pay And if I
make it through the
night I
can fight another day They say it's better to burn out than it is to fade away I
just hope to God I
can fall into a
sleep where I
can stay