Hold On-Goodie Mob

[ti:Hold On] [ar:Goodie Mob] [al:Big Boi Presents... Got Purp? Vol. 2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hold On - Goodie Mob [00:11.49]Look out the sun is out while its raining [00:13.75]The devils wife must be complaining [00:15.11] [00:15.79]Remember that its brothers work [00:17.38]Elbows in and up and down the court [00:19.27]Cause they play ball long after dark at Sykes park [00:22.12] [00:23.17]Smelled the rain before it came [00:24.96]But that don't stop the game [00:26.32]Intense inside the twelve feet fence [00:27.66] [00:28.79]Flip the mode back on the road set in [00:30.89]And watch my woodgrain spin [00:32.33]I let my window down and let the world in [00:34.59]Since I was knee high the only thing we [00:36.71]Had was the peachtree plaza in the sky [00:38.84]Things ain't the same no more [00:40.71]Everyday my city seems to grow and grow [00:43.52]Gotta blow a bed for my back [00:45.44]Cause I can't take the hardwood floors [00:47.30]Crooked system had me [00:48.44]Working in the warehouse [00:49.27]From 8 to 4 so [00:50.93]Gipp know what it is to work [00:52.35]For them foes for a check that don't mean sh*t [00:55.19]More bills keep coming in [00:56.49]But ain't no saving [00:58.00]Used to scrape up a buck for a box of newports [01:00.97]But after I found out [01:02.27]That they was f**king with the tobac I stopped [01:05.22]Its like killing myself with a glock [01:07.44]Its rough [01:08.11]Prices going up people giving in [01:10.17]To the rockets and hernon homes is known [01:12.24] [01:12.93]By the city to be toxic but ain't nothing said [01:15.40] [01:15.98]Always on the down low never in the mainstream [01:18.64]It ain't king [01:19.82]To be the fulltime [01:20.92]Blow a man these days you get years [01:23.39]And even though [01:24.31]My cousin writes me from the pen [01:26.15]I always think about how we kicked [01:27.97]It at the Dungeon fo he went in [01:29.98]What's next [01:30.69]My slick partner Toby is gone [01:32.80]Went to handle a little business [01:34.23]Never made it back home [01:35.75]I wonder what his girl told his son [01:37.82] [01:39.51]Hold on [01:39.93] [01:40.64]I can't escape the bullshit [01:42.05]Where ever I go sh*t [01:43.57]Always into something cause [01:45.04]I wanna be rich [01:46.22]Pulling cards in my blood it seems [01:48.20]I'm mean cause of my look [01:49.66]I might blast off on ya a** [01:51.26]And write another book [01:52.38]It took too many times in the cage [01:54.87]Now I'm on the front page looking at myself [01:57.38]I'm on the run [01:58.40]Never to be seen by the eyes [02:00.35]A fugitive [02:01.10]Plus I got a life to live [02:02.71]State by state [02:03.58]Is this just a dream [02:05.34]Sometimes it seems like it just a figure [02:07.81]Standing in the mirror from the back [02:09.28] [02:09.85]That's why I'm swinging my axe [02:11.84]Everytime so I won't miss I can be hit [02:13.98]Cause I'm touchable [02:15.17] [02:15.73]That's my state of mind [02:16.92]Cause I know one day you [02:18.28]Gotta go in a life of crime [02:20.38]Either the pen or a one way ticket [02:22.70]So I'm asking what will it be [02:24.51]Where do I solve [02:25.84]Nobody knows but me see [02:28.10]When I was a youth used [02:29.60]To think I was bulletproof [02:30.93]Never thought I could be hit [02:32.48]Ready to stand my turf [02:33.69]Niggaz can't understand how it work [02:35.40]What's the plan [02:36.74]We killing our own people for this bullshit [02:38.30]Scared straight wanna escape theres [02:40.12]One way outta this crooked county [02:41.42]With a bounty [02:42.63]Coming to get me [02:43.72]Then I'd be on the run [02:45.14]Hoping to find a better day [02:46.58]Without loaded guns in my face [02:48.06]I'm not the criminal [02:49.41]F**k your probation [02:50.49]What's my occupation Selling [02:51.58]My dubbs on the street [02:52.93] [02:53.92]Cause I gotta eat [02:54.79] [02:56.21]Hold on [02:56.78] [02:58.75]Am I awake or is this just another dream [03:01.11]I pinch myself invisible bars cover my cage [03:03.10] [03:03.91]Done lost all conception of time [03:05.69]Trapped in my own mind [03:07.05]Unaware of the world in front or behind [03:09.01] [03:09.88]Be trying [03:10.64]To catch up with myself [03:11.84]Evil doers steady working [03:13.14]Guest be leaching off of my wealth [03:14.66]Can't wait for my death [03:15.79]But got me f**ked up [03:17.30]Ain't man enough [03:18.38]Ni**a you got false nuts [03:19.66]Bouncing like rubber balls off the walls [03:21.72]The life we supposed to be living y'all [03:23.92]Them crackers got boxed up [03:25.05]We ain't even the middle men [03:26.92]But yet free my mind of confusion [03:29.06] [03:29.74]Jehovah witnesses waking me up out my slumber [03:32.28]Using white rice and [03:33.64]Stomach aching be still hunger for the [03:35.88]Taking at the bottom of my barrel [03:38.03]F**k a** and being nice ain't got me nathan [03:40.67]But a frown [03:41.85]Too high to get down [03:43.38]You don't know me [03:44.49]And I ain't tryna claim I be knowing you [03:46.51]But I do understand what you going through [03:48.80]Seems like you running outta time [03:50.23]In and out of crime [03:51.67]And everybody ain't gon be [03:53.10]Able to rhyme damn [03:54.68]It must be hard to hold on [03:56.25]When your faith is gone [03:57.58]Mmmm tryna make it all alone [03:59.43]Sometimes you gotta swallow [04:00.47]Your pride and let the lord decide [04:02.30] [04:03.13]You can't hide from the truth [04:04.57]I know we've all tried [04:05.76]And I agree its hard to believe [04:07.53]In what you can't see [04:09.11]Well sh*t ni**a what you keep [04:10.80]Telling me to hold on for I'm stuck in [04:13.58]The ghetto wit no where to go [04:15.25] [04:15.93]I gotta slang that blow [04:17.28]You call yourself tryna teach [04:19.31]Seems like I'm outta reach [04:20.54]Cause I don't wanna hear another speech [04:22.50]This is all I know how to [04:24.25]Get up get out and get [04:25.66] [04:26.92]So f**k that sh*t [04:27.75] [04:28.43]Hold on be strong it ain't gon be that long [04:31.25]Them folks won't do you wrong [04:32.68]The name of the song is hold on be strong [04:35.48]It ain't gon be that long [04:36.98]Them folks won't do you wrong [04:38.40]The name of the song is hold on is hold on