CHORUS: You won't believe the things I've seen

Far beyond your wildest dreams

I've seen chaos and order reign supreme

I've seen the beauty of the universe

so peaceful and serene

in seconds turn to violence and screams

I've seen true genius, too often to lose the meaningless

appreciation of this mediocre nation

I've heard the mind is repetition,

of empty words without tradition

Turned original verbs into submission

I smelled this malignerance addiction,

but I guess I wouldn't be right

if I said the blunt was like a baby pipe

There ain't gon' be no revolution tonight

Half of my warriors as high as a kite

Lost and they lost all they fight

And I've tasted, the bitter tragedy of lives wasted

And men who glimpsed the darkness inside, but never faced it

And it's a shame that most of y'all are followin sheep

Wallowin deeper than the darkness, you're fallin asleep

CHORUS

I've seen and experienced things

that'll push the average to the edge and swan dive to death

I'm two guys, multiplied by ninety-three guys

Evenly balanced seein evil equally in each eye now

Maybe I'm the most thorough worker on the job to you

or maybe I'm the one, who was plottin to rob you

The fear of this beatdown, the women on no cash to floss

makes most of y'all hustle ya ass off

From nothin to two mill', in five years I'll live to see it

vanish in six months, with no tears believe it

I'll rock, twenty-eight years before the Feds can lay a trace

See they plan is to erase me, just to replace me

Life! Your heart is one with your brain

Emotional or reason, now which one do you obey?

Life! Somebody callin you insane

When overwhelmed and blessed, burst in tears of happiness

Yo, yo, I've seen relationships that's so sick

Life long friendships so cha-o-tic

Thug cat bangin this chick but won't kiss

Drinkin her spit, when coppin a fix for dope bliss

I got a knife and a bat, to bust your brain, put a knife in your back

"Once in the Life" I was trifle like that

like my man Troy, who lost his days

shootin dice on worldly ways

and ended up in a early grave

Because once in a lifetime is rough

Twice in a lifetime you combat the ghost of mistrust

Mentally cuffed, thrust by a cop thinkin he tough

You bust, Amadou Diallo is us, and what

now I'm on my knees, beggin' "God, please!

Save me from the fires of hell!

Let water water soul prevail" - cos I can't take no more

Who's that knockin, at, my door?

Is that you, Pete from Cobb's Creek, who died in my sleep?

We was playin for fun, now it's keeps

Like my man Mark I beat to death wrapped in a carpet

and left in the garbage, now that's cold-hearted

Ask Book he saw it, "Yo black I ain't seen (shit)

Kids in the 6, they flip for nonsense"

Poke an icepick, smokin that (shit) since preschool fool

and packin a tool, (fuck you) Mom Dukes it's cool

CHORUS

Life! Your heart is one with your brain

Emotional or reason, now which one do you obey?

Life! Somebody callin you insane

When overwhelmed and blessed, burst in tears of happiness

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