Still stand tall when it all falls down
Whether Hollywood hills or a one horse town
You should know better, there’s no better than these four letters
More than ever niggas want me dead
Cause they starving and I’m getting fed
But fuck ‘em anyway
I’d rather be me on my worst day than to be a sucka nigga on his birthday
All cake no candles, just a living example
Ten toes down, all out no sandals
Godfather, a young Marlon Brando
Let me make sure they understand yo
Hear ye, hear ye, you wise, you fear me
Real niggas on they shine, much obliged, merci!
Everybody wanna criticize him ’bout how bad he ended up
Look how bad he could’ve been
I could’ve caught a body, sold a brick to somebody
Who volunteered my information to the federales
I made it outta all of that like I ain’t gon be proud of that
So petty shit you sticking to me, gimme all you got of that
Doing this for all my niggas
Who’d rather go to prison than let a nigga kill ‘em
So we leaving this PO snub nose in his denim
Trap or death is waiting round the corners that he been in
On bended knee, God forgive us, we’ve been sinning
In our defense, look at the options we’ve been given
Laying in the prison cell staring at the ceiling
Back in this bitch again, I guess they weren’t bullshittin’ huh
Still wonder where it all went wrong
Since Phil got killed, I ain’t never moved on
Like I’m still in the club where the blows got thrown
When my crown fell down and I got dethroned
Bunch of niggas around but I feel all alone
Like a piece of me is missing, guess it never came home
Probably died in a van when it all hit the fan
Save the life of a friend we don’t all get the chance
Now here I stand with blood on my hands
trying hard to explain so his mom understand
I done fought for the loss for the soul of a man
Only soldiers know how that’ll take a toll on a man
Burdens on the world of my shoulders: heavy
Visibly composed, my emotions buried
Scary, so if I pop a pill, smoke a blunt or take a shot
Y’all let a nigga live
Still baffled how my life unravelled
In the meantime, time just travelled
Can’t see behind the walls of my castle
Opinionated peons son, but who asked you?
I tell you what you do
Take ya two cents, kick rocks to a fountain pitching to make a wish
Shit, if wishes had wings,
they’d all make it to heaven and we’d all be kings
- T.I, ‘Hear Ye, Hear Ye’
WOWZA @ this verse.
