Things Ain't What They Used To Be-Mic Geronimo

[ti:Things Ain't What They Used To Be] [ar:Mic Geronimo] [al:Vendetta] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Things Ain't What They Used To Be - Mic Geronimo [00:04.01]Things ain't what they used to be out here man [00:06.06] [00:07.19]Ain't no more easy living no more man [00:08.78] [00:09.81]You best to recognize man [00:11.11]It's a struggle out here man [00:12.39] [00:13.17]We forced to do what we got to do to survive [00:15.81] [00:17.10]It wasn't nothing like this back in the days man [00:19.01] [00:19.98]Word sh*t got to change [00:21.60] [00:22.61]Increasing murders three strike life servers [00:24.82] [00:25.35]Burners informers [00:26.58]Giuliani's crews on us [00:28.15]The heat's just like the guns that we bust shot up [00:30.24] [00:30.84]Poisoning the little ones now they grow corrupt [00:33.33]It's different stages [00:34.50]Environment got most vision tainted [00:36.00] [00:36.53]Murals on the corner rest in peace now a painting [00:39.27]Haters seeing the dehumanization of a being [00:41.47] [00:42.03]But worst of all most of y'all don't know [00:43.88]What I'm meaning [00:44.80]And strange days time seems to move so fast [00:47.45]Only concerns is the cash and a whip to match [00:50.17]See this life is like a bid but it won't do me [00:52.57] [00:53.16]And it's funny nothings really [00:54.21]Like it used to be one two [00:56.20] [01:18.40]The epidemics narcotics paramedics [01:20.82] [01:21.43]Everybody eager at a party just to wet it [01:23.93]And felonies armed robberies and sprees [01:26.54]Higher rates on a key ghetto love disease [01:28.72] [01:29.34]More discreetly you choose who to f**king trust [01:32.15]Nowadays bulletproof and a phills a must [01:34.84]Most of us serving [01:35.74]Or peeling the yardage on the charges [01:37.83]Incarcerated cut off from the world disregarded [01:40.17] [01:40.74]Crack babies retardly born disformed [01:42.56] [01:43.23]And fathers known for shooting China white [01:45.06]Inside they arm [01:45.68] [01:46.28]Desert sickness planet earth at it's ill est [01:49.02]Strategically the ill est plan a man in specifics [01:51.33] [01:51.89]Life is like a bid but it won't do me [01:53.84] [01:54.35]Mentally these are the things that I should not see [01:56.66] [01:57.40]And I'm standing here counting all the casualties [01:59.47] [02:00.19]Cause things ain't nothing really [02:01.24]Like they used to be one two [02:03.22] [02:14.00]Like a night sky [02:14.98]Saw the darker levels leading teams of rebels [02:17.49]And steaming these streets just like kettles [02:19.55]Dime minds can rarely walk the concreate eroded [02:21.83] [02:22.38]Playing I made a folding [02:23.60]Off the cards I was holding [02:25.09]Young stand between you from [02:26.58] [02:28.12]Young stand between you from the phantom [02:29.59]Ghetto backs drops a cannon [02:30.90]Life at understanding a maturity stage [02:33.34]Still a thug and some will stay the same [02:34.90]For most of his days [02:36.08]Flushing to south Jamaica raids [02:37.70]Saw the time change hands [02:39.17]Caravans go to mp's after that lax lands [02:41.30] [02:41.93]And it's bugged just the product of [02:43.38]I came to be [02:44.16] [02:44.91]And it's funny nothings really [02:45.99]Like it used to be one two