The Puzzle-Brother Ali

[ti:The Puzzle] [ar:Brother Ali] [al:The Undisputed Truth] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Puzzle - Brother Ali [00:00.21]Who's to blame for the state I'm in [00:02.91]I play my cards but somehow I can't win [00:05.51]Listen when life leaves you beaten up [00:07.39]Don't lay around in it hurry pick them pieces up [00:10.42]Cling closely to the people you love [00:12.36]They're your umbrella when the weathers tough [00:14.48]See to it that your head is up [00:16.23]If not just remember this [00:17.38]Just never let your chest and your chin touch in public [00:20.60]Those that stand against us would love this [00:23.11]Man f**k them something's bugging em' [00:25.39]They feel inadequate or something and that's been dug in 'em [00:28.46]So deep they can't stand someone else making sh*t [00:31.71]Player hatred same concept created satan [00:34.50]Play 'em no never mind let 'em play their part [00:37.05]They're here to make us prove we are [00:38.58]What we say we are [00:40.04]We say we are the hard hearted [00:41.65]Been discarded from everything we've ever been part of [00:44.67]They just robbed it [00:45.94]Unguarded tormented and tortured [00:48.18]And got nothing but scars and grey hairs to show for it [00:51.48]F**k that every stone that's ever been cast [00:53.67]Or blow that ever landed [00:55.40]Helped to build that man that's standing before your b**ch a** [00:58.01]And back to wreak havoc and never retired retreated or recanted [01:02.30]I don't expect you to have stood where I'm standing [01:05.10]Why repsect is the only thing I'm demanding [01:08.04]Try you and I could build this understanding [01:10.81]You can't honestly shake unless you know where my hand's been brother [01:14.67]This is a piece of my puzzle now [01:16.99]Through the years I found peace in my struggle now [01:19.65]If we were put here to carry a great weight [01:22.12]The very things we hate are here to build those muscles [01:25.29] [01:26.14]This is a piece of my puzzle now [01:28.24]Through the years I found peace in my struggle now [01:31.11]Whose to blame for the state I'm in yours truly [01:33.81]I play my cards but somehow I can't win [01:35.98]Listen I was taught that mistakes made with great intentions [01:39.53]Were never sins but where life lessons begin [01:42.54]Now that I'm 27 single father starting over yet again [01:45.80]I am who I have to forgive [01:48.03]Lost my mumma to cancer closed a 10 year chapter shortly after [01:51.53]Can't deny that was some sh*t [01:53.68]Alone in this life [01:54.64]Would've been at my throat with a knife chop [01:56.81]Were it not for my passion to live [01:59.46]Follow my soul not that I don't know the penalty [02:01.67]But that's the legacy that I pass to my kids [02:05.02]Heard of shining in the heat of the moment [02:07.18]And won my freedom the moment I realised that's what this is [02:11.46]A piece of my puzzle now [02:13.53]Through the years I found peace in my struggle now [02:16.35]If we were put here to carry a great weight [02:18.76]The very things we hate are here to build those muscles [02:22.49]This is a piece of my puzzle now [02:25.03]Through the years I found peace in my struggle now [02:27.74]Whose to blame for the state I'm in you are [02:30.36]I play my cards but somehow I can't win [02:32.72] [02:33.64]I can't believe my eyes Lord [02:36.55]I don't know what I'm seeing [02:39.04]I done watched them smash into little pieces everything I've been building [02:44.67]I can't believe my ears Lord [02:47.98]I don't know what I'm hearing [02:50.47]I heard they smash into little pieces everything I've been building [02:56.07]I can't believe my eyes Lord [02:59.29]I don't know what I'm seeing [03:01.78]I done watched them smash into little pieces everything I've been building [03:07.25]I can't believe my ears Lord [03:10.53]I don't know what I'm hearing [03:13.06]I heard they smash into little pieces everything I've been building [03:18.59]Whose to blame for the state I'm in [03:20.64] [03:21.20]I play my cards but somehow I can't win