Got to love you! I, I'll do anything I could for ya Boy you're my only You don't even know me 'Cause I am, I, I don't even want to fight, fight, fight Said I am, I, I ain't even gonna fight it I, I'm gonna flip these beats on ya Girl me nuh stay like

Where did it go? Where did it go so wrong? I can't take it Motherfuckers more than a little complacent Just sit the fuck down, pay attention There's too much noise, for a second listen You're all so fucking outrageous So you're all stars now? So you're

Maybe we don't need no reason Come on, come on, come on now Maybe we're perfect strangers Maybe it's not forever Maybe intellect will change us Maybe we'll stay together Maybe we'll walk away Maybe we'll realize

Everybody got to elevate from the norm Everybody got mixed feelings Everybody got to deviate from the norm A tired mind become a shape-shifter Everybody need reverse polarity About the function and the form Everybody got to elevate Unstable condition A

You can’t hide from me There ain’t no tricks that you can try on me I know your every move before you even breathe baby Thinking you know something I don’t know but my eyes, my eyes, my eyes Like a telescope You left your troubles in my head, in my head

Just might be true The self-inflicted state of mind A one-man struggle beneath the tower I think the clock still exist God just forgot to tap my shoulder I woke up today I wish I felt something The odor of my apathy I want to be the things I see

In the land of a billion lights The city of angels Lost in the city of angels Down in the comfort of strangers, I Found myself in the fire burnt hills One life, one love, live There was truth, there was consequence, against you A weak defense, then

I'm holdin', cock back nigga move slow You notice, niggaz snitchin' for the po po The moment, squeeze the trigga of the fo fo I'm frozen, neck, wrist, fingers no joke Go get your ratchet, my homie, we not havin' that Get 'em in the club when that shit

And this is how it all began On our first campaign to the Fatherland There was writing on the walls Looked like "Circus" there for me We were smoking Karl Marx With the junkies in the park I watched the barmaid keeping track By marking X's on our mats

Thug for Life I will be (this is the ballad of a dead soldier) A life of crime I will lead (close your eyes, hear the ballad of a dead soldier) If you play the game, you play to win (this is the ballad of a dead soldier) This is the ballad of a dead