Yeah, know what I'm sayin
You don't get too many chances you know what I'm saying
Sometimes its, one opportunity to really speak it beautifully
Brutally honest from beginning to the eulogy
To feel alive you don't got to to die a 1000 times
Surviving by the grace of god to let me pen another rhyme
Ox the coordinates the course can be unfortunate
A long way was touring from street corner performances
Spoken in calligraphy written ill curriculum
Never to my detriment or victims of the system
Listen, cause most of my scripture was not depicted
Never scripted glamorous cause this is non fiction
Blinded by the lights of life, hunger was my appetite
Sacrifice the smallest price to pay out what it did twice
Hopeless not dystopian potent like its opium
Broken down the doors when nobody else would open them
Moments paint the portraits from birth until we corpses
Life is priceless ghetto poet split the fortunes
That's the way life is streets are cold as this ice is
From the blood sweat and years we sacrificed in
From the grind were not many can rise in
We kept a smile when finding better horizons
That's the way life is streets are cold as this ice is, ice is
And the memories of priceless
That's the way life is streets are cold as this ice is, ice is
And the memories of priceless
I made it farther then I can dream or author
From the cloth the tale is cautionary not the coffin
Arriving, like torch bearers from lost eras
Never an error in the area I take care of
When I spark up, lighters in my parka
When I spit the script its permanent marker
Another day to smile when the sun comes
And share these precious memories of my loved ones
The world turns like my seeds on a carousel
This where I'm supposed to be so I can live to tell the tale
Peace the strugglers or those that's in a jail cell
Might have fell on hard times but hard times we don't dwell
A way of life my a-alikes know we paid the price
Cold as ice most of ya'll don't even own your fuckin rights
The lifestyle, trials and tribulations
Blood sweat and years, my grind its the dedication
That's the way life is streets are cold as this ice is
From the blood sweat and years we sacrificed in
From the grind were not many can rise in
We kept a smile when finding better horizons
That's the way life is streets are cold as this ice is, ice is
And the memories of priceless
That's the way life is streets are cold as this ice is, ice is
And the memories of priceless