This desire
I come home high, and she start to cry
I can't take it
A brand new excuse does me no use
That won't make it
She at home with the kids, this is no way to live
What can I say?
I know it's surreal, but I'm a hard-headed still
Do things my way
And it's so strong, so strong
It's like I'm dying
Trying to hold on
My body says oh-no, oh, out there
Flying, the price that I pay for the game that I play
Ain't no game at all
I'm up in the clouds, and I'm spiraling down
Nothing breaks the fall
And it's so strong, so strong
It's like I'm dying
Try to hold on
My body says oh-no, oh, out there
Flying
Sounds of the sufferers pray
I come home high, and she start to cry
I can't take it
A brand new excuse does me no use
That won't make it
She at home with the kids; this is no way to live
What can I say?
I know it's surreal, but I'm a hard-headed still
Black Dante and it's so strong
So strong
So strong
So strong
I'm out there, flying
Flying
Flying
Flying
This game is fantastic, desire
Killers, this life, this life
Lovers, this life, this life
Hustlers, this life, this life
Thieves, this life, this life
Gamblers, this life, this life
Niggaz, crackers, children, mothers, fathers, lovers, neighbors, hungry
Full, the beautiful, the stars, the distance, the close, the stars
The heavens, this life
The floor, this life, this life
The high, this life
The beneath, this life, this life
All, all, everywhere, everywhere, anywhere, somewhere, home
Come on, this how it goes on
Ghetto people in the world today, get up!
Ha! Look alive, breathe, woo!
Ha! How it goes
Mother, mother
Head in her hands
Her first born son dead in her hands
The whole thing was a setup, a scam
They knew it was set up and planned
Niggas he worked with wet him and ran, and that's,
Brother, brother
But, son, I don't see no brother hood
All I see is thugger hood
Get rich and fuck the hood
All they want is some good smoke from the hood
Lookin' for the shorty good stroke from the hood
That's how they touch the hood
But when I touch the hood, I'll make it brighter, black
Because I'm brighter, black
And I'm so black I'm bright, shine through the blackest night
Shine when I'm live, shine via satellite
Shout in the hood, 'we get the picture.'
'Cause every time you out in the hood, you got photographers wit' ya
What's going on? Ha!
Understand this is real life
This how it goes on, this how it goes on
It keep going on, this how it goes on
Ghetto people, look alive, get free
Get involved, remain to breathe
Ha! Woo!
If Marvin was alive now, wow
What would I say to him?
Where could I start?
How could I explain to him?
I know the minor world would probably look strange to him
Would he feel like today had a place for him?
Global imprisonment, sickness, indifference
When he said, 'Save the babies,' was we listenin'?
When he said, 'Mercy, mercy,' did he really know
That decades later we'd still be killin' folks?
Or did he hope that we would realize
That we the first, the son of Earth
The moon and stars, the great beyond
We black and proud, we brave and strong
We raise it up, we quiet storm, forever fresh
And keepin' on
Ha! Ghetto people, look alive and free, ya get real
This how it goes on, and you say, you say [Repeat: x2]
This how it goes on
Ghetto people, look alive and free, and breathe! Ha!
Hold the beat! Stop the beat! Drop the beat! [Repeat: x3]
Hold the beat! Stop the beat! Got the beat!
There ain't nothin' to be afraid of
Ghetto people,, look alive and free, ya get real
This how it goes on
This how it goes on, keep goin' on
This how it goes on
Now breathe!
Marvelous, marvelous, marvelous, Marvin modern marvel
Modern Marvel
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A Ha A Soldier's Dream All Praise Due All Praises Due America Astronomy Astronomy (8th Light) Auditorium B Boys Will B Boys Beautiful Beauty In The Dark (Groove With You) Bedstuy Parade Bedstuy Parade & Funeral March Beef Beef [#] Black & Blue Black Jack Blak Iz Blak Blue Black Jack Body Rock Body Rock (Featuring Q-Tip & Tash) Boogie Man Song Breakdown Brooklyn Brown Skin Lady Brown Sugar (Extra Sweet) Brown Sugar (Fine) Brown Sugar (Raw) Caldonia Casa Bey Champion Requiem Children's Story Climb Climb - Featuring Vinia Mojica Close Edge Come On Crime & Medicine Crime and Medicine Definition Definition [Instrumental] Destination Love Do It Now Dollar Day Dollar Day (Surprise Surprise) Drunk and Hot Girls Embassy Excellence Fake Bonanza Fear Not of Man Fear Not Of Men Freak Daddy Freaky Black Greetings Freestyle Freestyle Over Instrumental Ghetto Rock Ghetto Rock [Instrumental] Good Night Got Grown Man Business Grown Man Business (Fresh Vintage Bottles) Habitat Hater Players Hip Hop History Hurricane I Against I If Looks Could Kill (You Would Be Dead) If You Can Huh! You Can Hear If You Can Huh... Invisible Game Jam on It Jam on It [Instrumental] Joy K.O.S. (Determination) Kalifornia Know That Life in Marvelous Times Life Is Real Lifetime Love Love Rain [Coffee Shop Mix] Love Rain [Coffee Shop Mix] Love Rain [Head Nod Remix] Mathematics May-December Miss Fat Booty Mos Def Freestyle Mos Def-Grown Man Business (Fresh Vintage Bottles) Mr. Nigga Mrnigga Ms Fat Booty Ms. Fat Booty Ms. Fat Booty 2 Msfat Booty Much Respect To Michael Jordan (Nike Commercial) Murder of a Teenage Life Nadine Napoleon Dynamite New World Water Next Universe Niggas In Poorest No Hay Nada Mas No Particular Place To Go Oh No On My Own Pistola Pretty Dancer Priority Promised Land Quiet Dog Quiet Dog (Bite Hard) Quiet Dog Bite Hard RE: DEFinition RE:DEFinition Reminisce Respiration Revelations Rock N Roll Roses Sex, Love & Money Sex, Love & Money [Album Version Explicit] Sex, Love & Money [Instrumental] Sex, Love & Money Six Days Speed Law Sun, Moon, Stars Sunshine Supermagic Supreme Supreme Sweepstakes The Beggar The Boogie Man Song The Day The Easy Spell The Embassy The Glow The Jump Off The Jump Off [*] The Light Is Not Afraid Of The Dark The Panties The Rape Over The Undeniable Theives In The Night There Is A Way Thieves in the Night This Means You Thug Is a Drug Travellin Man (Remix) Travellin' Man True Magic Twice Inna Lifetime Twilite Speedball U R the One Umi Says Umi Says [Live] Umi Says [Ritual Session] Undeniable Universal Magnetic Very Well Wahid War Water Workers Comp Workers Comp. Wylin Out Wylin Out [Instrumental] Wylin Out [Original Version] Yo Yeah You Are Undeniable Zimzallabim
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