Vein-Cannibal Ox

[ti:vein] [ar:Cannibal Ox] [al:The Cold Vein] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Vein (静脉) - Cannibal Ox [00:13.31]Pop goes the flow of the weasel [00:14.46]Strapped with an Ox full of diesel [00:15.78]Trapped in the desert with eagles [00:17.84]Thoughts of ghetto acapellas in cathedrals [00:20.52]Spilling heavy gospels with cheaters [00:22.58]Twisted up high off the reefer [00:24.47]Lost beyond regions of logic and reason just being [00:27.72]We high so be not so obedient to society's laws and limitations [00:32.59]Lost in this ghetto population [00:34.71]I'm just another face that's facing all types of like [00:37.96]Stereotypes and hatred [00:38.97]But I ain't going to whet that and get all stressed out [00:42.47]I'm just trying to make it and strive with my [00:45.53]Hellbent [00:46.46]Hell went through changes emotions inner thoughts and rages [00:49.16]Relieved and released on pages [00:51.22]My life in it's cycle and stages [00:52.84]Seen through descriptions in nature [00:55.27]Ever since back in the days when niggaz was loving and hating [00:59.43]Everyone trapped and two thou caught The Matrix [01:02.98]With diseases of judgement that breed through the hatred [01:05.54]Conceived through these scenes and then painted [01:07.66]Now what really defines the line of a hater [01:10.28]And what defines the line of someone even greater [01:11.97]And what makes somebody jump that line trying to take it [01:14.03]Wrapped behind enemy lines trying to make it [01:18.02]Mind in another universe while my physical's stuck on the earth [01:21.58]In these inner city mazes [01:23.14]Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo [01:29.32]Lay that sh*t down [01:30.23]What is you a clown [01:31.55]You wanna see a little kid get shot [01:33.86]Give me two good reasons so I don't smack you [01:36.48]For flashing a gun in my face just to get some respect [01:39.31]All in all it's all love and I'm here to protect [01:41.51]You only twelve years old someone'll snap your neck [01:44.52]You let your pants sag but your thoughts gotta pull up [01:47.58]Mental calisthenics lazer brains can't push up [01:50.03]Or even sit up to fight for what they believe in [01:53.53]He thought about it [01:54.67]I said Peace keep breathing [01:56.23]I see him mumbling shrugging his shoulder [01:58.91]He probably cursing but he know better [02:01.40]He had a beretta with the rubbed off serial digit [02:04.85]And I know he got it from Carlos The Midget [02:07.23]The only cat I know cold enough to hustle sh*t to kids [02:10.46]Been in this three man team forming eight arm squid [02:13.43]And they laugh in the face of [02:15.42]Any possibilities of being through and dead [02:17.17]We're all from the same ghettos [02:18.73]And these are the same hollow tips that knock nearly out of stilettos [02:23.66]He cocked first I cocked second [02:25.92]And in that exact second both of the gats burst [02:29.04] [02:36.62]Man this is your last f**king chance [02:37.92]F**k you this is your last chance [02:42.93]Live and orchestrated [02:47.24]From blocks where animals grew up as four lazers [02:49.70]We twist mad sabres [02:51.20]Rock the sky pimping jays all day blazes [02:53.89]Wrapped in these inner city mazes [02:55.88]Relaxing on corners where cats stay wasted [02:58.94]Choking on 4-0 basics you taste it [03:01.56]My life's an oasis this trife's what I make it [03:04.68]Straight through these days spitting raps that laced it [03:07.17]I'm just trying to blaze these mics on the stages [03:10.05]Write on these pages like life as a scene in amazement [03:13.10]Like Ima stay blazing mics until I'm fading [03:15.61]Off of this surface to return to my nature [03:18.17]In the meantime spit flows and cop acres [03:21.35]Put my fam in it with shelter that spaces [03:24.04]Everyday life yo is rap in these mazes [03:26.86]I'm just trying to make it [03:28.74]The O-E slowly dissolves in my belly got me aching [03:33.50]Niggaz up the block yo I swear trying to take it [03:38.07]But I'ma stay patient watching every move made in the jungle [03:40.68]It's live trying to strive in this struggle [03:42.62]New York state of mind that's the home that I come to [03:45.30]Nothing but pigeons living trapped in this system [03:47.50]Bleeding screaming phoenix [03:48.06] [03:49.19]We needed that scrap for that meaning to stay shining [03:52.09]Trying to escape out of hellfires and lakes [03:54.67]Brain on another plane gliding through acid rain [03:57.49]That's stress trying to master pain [03:59.86]Spit words not to hurt but to bash your brain [04:02.68]That's the worth of an MC wrapped in the vein [04:05.88]New York