A Soldier's Story?-GRIP

[ti:A Soldier's Story? (Explicit)] [ar:GRIP] [al:I Died For This!? (Explicit)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A Soldier's Story? (Clean) - GRIP [00:07.91]Lyrics by：Kyle Clow/Eliot Dubock [00:15.82]Composed by：Kyle Clow/Eliot Dubock [00:23.73]My hunger to be regarded as the best is what's starving me to death [00:27.23]Partially depressed and harboring regrets [00:29.07] [00:29.74]Targeting success bartering bars bargaining for checks [00:31.91] [00:32.53]Becoming a star seems startling so I'm vexed [00:34.89]Nonetheless here I am though [00:36.34] [00:36.89]Like they shoved a rifle in my hands n threw me in some camo [00:39.56]And told me to go be Rambo [00:40.71] [00:41.93]Just cuz you got a soul don't make you a soldier [00:43.49] [00:44.02]Every shoulder ain't equipped to handle the weight of a boulder [00:47.02]Used to couldn't wait to get older [00:48.76]Over 30 now n jealous of Benjamin Button all of a sudden [00:51.62] [00:52.30]Reversin roles to live in reverse feels like more of a gift than a curse [00:55.87]Joggin your memory revisiting birth [00:57.76] [00:58.30]And truly get a sense of what life is literally worth [01:00.62] [01:01.53]I suppose what I write is like a zeitgeist for life's highs and lows [01:05.42]From nightlights and tyke bikes to oversized girbauds [01:08.43]To the everyday fight through the plight n providing flows [01:10.82] [01:11.63]That speak on it these sonnets steeped in [01:13.56]Ebonics be bonnets how yaw sleep on it I count up likes n read comments [01:17.09]Some s**t cut deep some bring comic [01:18.64]Relief [01:18.81] [01:19.33]Social medias unfamiliar land I recon it [01:21.47] [01:22.04]Obtain the info [01:22.43] [01:23.03]And what I gained was plain n simple [01:24.49] [01:25.25]Watch wat u feed the soul cuz the eye remains the window [01:27.47] [01:28.23]March to the best of your own drum don't let em change the tempo [01:30.73] [01:31.35]I came in this game wit nickels [01:32.42] [01:33.22]Pockets in a major pickle den made it triple [01:35.90] [01:36.54]Was contemplating aiming pistols or slangin crystal [01:39.27]Or crack or matter fact any pack long as it brought plenty back [01:43.89]Baby boi ain't conform just forged a formula den milked it [01:46.74] [01:47.39]Similac the raps is similar to Cinemax [01:50.81]Who said they could hold a candle to Grip over wax relax [01:54.18] [01:54.97]I'm from the class of Hova and 3stacks Pac Nas Big and Slim Shady [01:59.84]Been wavy way before 1080 [02:02.31]Havin nervous breakdowns like I know the pen crazy [02:04.41] [02:05.06]But how I'm supposed posed to make them pay me [02:06.44] [02:07.12]Think think think think [02:08.46] [02:09.14]I hit up Tigg bout management that's my man's n s**t [02:11.12] [02:11.67]I feel if anybody was equipped for the task he could handle it [02:14.16] [02:14.96]Besides the fact this n***a cool [02:16.27] [02:16.88]He one of the only dudes I know that actually finished school [02:19.66]D**n [02:19.81] [02:21.27]And to me that mean he finish what he start [02:23.31]So just stay down my n***a n we gon see plenty from this art [02:25.87] [02:26.91]I hit up Tu let's cook from scratch you got the beats [02:29.33]I got the raps [02:29.77] [02:30.29]First s**t we made was Culdesac a classic track right off the bat [02:33.25]Porch came shortly after that [02:34.71]Hardly any records scrapped [02:35.67] [02:36.40]They knew that was a problem dropped Snub it was a wrap [02:38.69] [02:39.39]Was supposed to hit the road wit Brent Like 30 cities on the map [02:42.43]Den dat f**kin' Rona hit [02:43.38] [02:44.00]I lost out on 30 racks [02:44.89] [02:45.49]But many people lost their lives so how the f**k could I complain [02:48.58]Feel like we movin from outside but I feel stuck inside my brain [02:51.77]Is this really what I want [02:53.11]Am I still in love wit dis game [02:54.77]Tigg called like n***a Eminem just said your s**t was flames [02:57.14] [02:57.71]Then me and Em hopped on a call and it all seemed fitting [03:00.88]Just a couple days from quittin [03:01.91] [03:02.42]And the rest is unwritten