The Black Canvas-Yonas

[ti:The Black Canvas] [ar:Yonas] [al:The Black Canvas] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.09]DJ I love this song (my) heart is torn in pieces [00:04.16](the) future baby that is gone (I) played it all night long [00:08.90]I know I'm such a fool I gave him all he needed [00:13.14]Traded my heart and soul for 18 karat gold [00:17.85]DJ I love this song (my) heart is torn in pieces [00:21.03](the) future baby that is gone (I) played it all night long [00:24.58]I know I'm such a fool I gave him all he needed [00:28.08]Traded my heart and soul for 18 karat gold [00:31.45]I know it's hard and you feel like everybody shot ya down shot ya down [00:35.38]I know it's hard and you feel like everybody shot ya down shot ya down [00:38.94]With a bullet through the heart I popped the gun [00:41.93] [00:45.92]This goes out to the artists of my time [00:47.85]Painting Mona Lisa's and such [00:49.48]But yet when the rent starts to climb [00:51.60]Can't afford their leases and such [00:53.35]They work hard for a decent little cut [00:55.10]Enough to let paint seep from the brush [00:56.97]When I scribble I think of everybody from the lower to the middle class we might touch [01:00.40]Can't put a price tag on a real flow [01:02.27]Can't put a body bag on a real soul [01:04.08]Can't put a stop sign in front of a rock star when his goal and his dream is to kill shows [01:07.89]Young artist clever thoughts [01:08.64]When he follows his dreams he's never lost [01:10.69]What's worth a lot of money now here in the present [01:12.75]Is the very same art in the past people never bought [01:14.69]And damn it's real [01:16.47]Still paint on the canvas ill [01:18.21]Cause I've gotta keep it moving forward man no standing still [01:21.77]Sh*t sh*t damn it's real [01:23.70]Still paint on the canvas ill [01:25.33]Cause I've gotta keep it moving forward man no standing still [01:28.45] [01:28.88]DJ I love this song (my) heart is torn in pieces [01:32.38](the) future baby that is gone (I) played it all night long [01:35.25]I know I'm such a fool I gave him all he needed [01:38.49]Traded my heart and soul for 18 karat gold [01:42.55]I know it's hard and you feel like everybody shot ya down shot ya down [01:45.92]I know it's hard and you feel like everybody shot ya down shot ya down [01:49.73]With a bullet through the heart I popped the gun [01:53.22] [01:57.02]Van Gogh's Divinci's Basquiat's Warhol's [02:00.64]Jay-Z's 2Pac's Lupe's Paul Wall's [02:04.07]Whoever you pin up on your wall [02:05.83]In your room it's your call [02:07.58]It's your movie it's your scene [02:09.45]We just symbolize your dreams [02:10.82]Please understand what it means to be great [02:13.38]When your talent becomes your escape [02:15.13]So much to the point your reality is replaced by the place that you trace [02:18.86]And that place that you trace and always easy to relate [02:22.10]If it was then it wouldn't be so safe from the people tryna get up in your space [02:25.67]But f**k it gold chains gold chains [02:28.97]One thing that you'll never see is a hood ni**a with no chains [02:31.71]Hipster kid without a rope chain [02:34.34]Drug dealers with no shame [02:36.10]And me without my notepad just analyzing that whole thing [02:38.41] [02:40.76]If life punches you punch back [02:43.26]Cause if not then your dreams die and trust me you don't want that [02:46.18]All I need is my one mic my one truth and my one track [02:50.43]Cause once you lose that one love you'll never get that one back [02:53.98] [02:54.49]DJ I love this song (my) heart is torn in pieces [02:57.30](the) future baby that is gone (I) played it all night long [03:00.93]I know I'm such a fool I gave him all he needed [03:04.49]Traded my heart and soul for 18 karat gold [03:08.04]I know it's hard and you feel like everybody shot ya down shot ya down [03:11.67]I know it's hard and you feel like everybody shot ya down shot ya down [03:15.35]With a bullet through the heart I popped the gun