We aim for balance standing on cannonballs We slam on clay and dig deep, and labyrinth trenches around craters we call home Rage, I will put this all back inside of me Ghosts of my past lift me up, carry me through blinding night Ever-flowing white

'Cause silence isn't golden When I'm holding it inside An I've seen what I have seen Don't damn me when I speak a piece of my mind 'Cause I've been where I have been I put the pen to the paper 'Cause it's all a part of me Be it a song or a casual

Focus on me Focus on me (focus) Focus on me (focus on me) Let's find a light inside our universe now Where ain't nobody keep on holding us down Just come and get it let them say what they say 'Cause I'm about to put them all away I know what I came to do

Wounded, I'm Wounded I'm battered and broken and bruised All tore up inside over you Wonderin' why you do me like you do You plowed over me like a tractor You used me up and put me out to pasture I'm left to eat your dust Guess you're thinkin' that we

Leavin' thoughts inside my head Well now since you put it that way I should get up and leave But you're givin' me that look, baby That says you're up to no good maybe And you're whispering into my neck If I need to I'll go darlin' But what if I stay What

I can't stand what you put me through Is it that terrible being you inside? Let it all go I can't stand the sight of you Your life's a lie that you hide I can't stand, oh, the thought of you I can't stand all the things you do What do you try to justify?

Roll to every station, murder the DJ If hip hop should die before I wake I'll put an extended clip inside of my AK Hip hop just died this mornin' And she's dead, she's dead Grindin', hittin' Brazilian dimes from behind Yeah, niggaz smoke, laugh, party,

Put me inside The flan in the face Don't you dare Let me back I keep the wolf from the door But he calls me up Calls me on the phone Tells me all the ways that he's gonna mess me up Steal all my children if I don't pay the ransom

Wake, wake, wakin' me up Weight, weight, puttin' me down Uh, let's start off with something light You bringin' the candle light That I put inside sometime Tell me what you say 'cause you know I got it baby I wanna call you, I wanna leave it up You feel

That night I saw through all the magic I barely recognized him at all That night I put my youth in a casket And buried it inside of me Now I'm a witness to the death of a hero I burned all the pictures in the attic And threw away the magazines And now