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The Cold Truth Pt. 2

from The Prelude by Complex

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I've lived my whole life in fear,
Saw the end of my life get near,
And never saw things quite so clear,
I gotta fight this year,
2015 mine, this 32 bars, but this aint only 16 lines,
I never settle for less, I'm always givin em more,
I hear the bullets comin quick, watch em rip through the door,
Now I got bloodstains all up on my living room floor,
I'm livin life but lately don't know what I'm livin it for,
My problems keep gettin worse,
I try and stick to the rules,
I'm seein rappers drop quick,
Like a brick in a pool,
You mutha fuckas spreadin hate are just the wickedest fools,
You only talkin bout bitches and jewels,
But I be on somethin that's deeper,
Addressin em all, just like the House Speaker,
I watched my own Dad die, never felt weaker,
But what it made me, was strong as ever,
And now I'm takin over quick, call me Rockefeller,
Man I don't understand how people so concerned with they self,
Talkin bout they aint got pulled off the shelf,
You talkin how you so different,
So far from being basic,
But you the same as everybody else, homie face it,
You livin life to party,
Makin fun of the smarties,
People lookin up to crooks, not the ones who's writin books, homie look,
The whole damn world startin to cook,
This is Hell on Earth, but still we all act so un-shook,
I don't get it, why the ones tryna be different all actin the same?
Why can't we be ourselves, just look inside ya brain,
You say you so damn different, yet actin so plain,
Droppin outta school, sellin drugs, doin cocaine,
No drive, cause you aint got no lane,
So cool now, wait until you so lame,
Cause that's where I was,
Then my buzz got buzzin,
Then they all just started actin like I wasn't,
Man it's fucked up, people only love you if they need you,
Unconditional don't exist,
Unless they feed you when you can't feed yourself,
Wish your bleedin would stop, if they would start to bleed they self,
Man I need they help, I need yall help too,
And if you help me, I swear I'll help you,
Just free your mind, unwind, and take a breath,
Stop thinkin life's too short to even waste a sec,
You got time, even if it's only a minute,
Death only seems scary til you mozyin in it,
And if you really think about it it's the coziest finish,
Imagine every problem that you ever had diminish,
And in the meantime, why don't you stop being mean?
Stop judging life off what you heard and only trust what you seen,
Start givin and expectin not a thing in return,
And stop actin so scared to learn,
You gotta earn waht you got,
Or you won;t know you got it til it's gone,
I swear to God this shit aint just a song,
But keepin that in mind, please feel free to sing along,
Cause I know it aint weak, but when we say it together, this shit strong,
I hope you love your life,
And if not, make a change, fuck it, make one twice,
We only humans, but sometimes we can get shit right,
So do that as much as you can and you gon be alright, alright?
Listen, my homie just made bail,
I swear I just pulled through when I thought I just might fail,
And now there aint even a shadow of a doubt,
Just the shadow of a giant, and they bout to hear me shout,
There's a plague in this nation,
It's a lack of an education, and its cuttin off all our communication,
You gotta break out the little black box,
Break the chains you've been chasin,
Man the entire world is just a giant corporation,
And sorry kids, but they sold youth,
Don't know what else to say about it, I just call that shit the Cold Truth

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from The Prelude, released May 9, 2015
CREDIT: Mobb Deep

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