I Stole Your Life-Funky DL

[ti:I Stole Your Life] [ar:Funky DL] [al:Nane] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Stole Your Life - Funky DL [00:22.44]So you're living your life trying to be right [00:25.31]Chasing the game but losing your life [00:27.69]Don't you know that you are special (I know you hear me kid) [00:32.12]Special (I know you hear me) [00:33.50]Take your time to grow and be wise [00:36.00]Educate your mind in the right things [00:38.40]Don't you know that you are special [00:41.40](I know you hear me kid) special [00:43.65]I am that son of gun who gets you thinking bout' life [00:46.22]While thinking about mics I'm thinking about my rights [00:48.90]My right to speak freely without the influence of f**king TV's [00:51.90]Magazines the Internet and BB [00:54.47]I spray it just like graffiti on the walls of hood [00:57.12]Where shorty's is smelling weedy probably up to no good [01:00.05]Police cars patrolling for some property that's stolen [01:02.42]While them Spliffs keep rolling ni**a's burn em' like wood [01:05.24]B**ches'll turn snitches when a woman is scorned [01:07.49]The Drug Kings f**k with Bishops and the Bishops the Pawns [01:10.69]The Pawns are the first to prison now awaiting release [01:13.32]With no game plan so probably gonna' return to the streets [01:16.19]And do it over the only change is that they getting older [01:19.12]Their heart is getting colder like the weather in October [01:21.69]Nobody can wake early and people ain't trustworthy [01:23.94]Now half of the neighbourhood is acting like they seven-thirty [01:26.69]It's crazy is this the place you happen to live [01:29.44]Where young kids spit saliva right in front of your crib [01:32.28]And when you catch em' red handed try and put em' in place [01:35.41]And all they got for you's a cheeky f**king smirk on they face [01:38.73]And no apology because that ain't the way they were raised [01:41.30]The only thing that really matters is to smoke and get paid yo' [01:44.05]Sometimes the hood is like the blade of a knife [01:46.07]It got you feeling like somebody f**king stole your life [01:49.19]So you're living your life trying to be right [01:52.02]Chasing the game but losing your life [01:54.40]Don't you know that you are special (I know you hear me kid) [01:58.84]Special (I know you hear me) [02:00.34]Take your time to grow and be wise [02:02.59]Educate your mind in the right things [02:05.03]Don't you know that you are special [02:07.97](I know you hear me kid) special [02:10.16]With most of your time spent on merely trying to make the rent [02:13.09]Some crooks'll do your books for only twenty-five percent [02:15.72]And broke becomes a mind state mirrored in reality [02:18.10]With pictures of fatalities but never in a gallery [02:20.35]Hand to mouth living from what's hardly called a salary [02:23.60]But most times it seems just like you live some kind of fallacy [02:26.78]With people living callously you'll never be a Majesty [02:29.62]The world around you feels like it's a f**king travesty [02:32.50]And friends ain't friends no more [02:34.57]Cos' these b**ches don't wanna' come around the ends no more [02:37.14]Take a twenty from you and paying back a ten and no more [02:40.21]And nobody seeing you wearing fresh denim no more [02:42.52]And everything remains a secret you ain't telling no more [02:45.47]You want your Neighbours to be quiet don't be yelling no more [02:48.85]And all them Drug Dealers you don't want them selling no more [02:51.61]Don't wanna' be associated with no felons no more yo' [02:54.44]Not everybody living like this [02:56.25]And in comparison some people probably living quite bliss [02:59.88]But this is for my peeps in the hood [03:02.00]For everyone without a voice and feeling misunderstood [03:04.75]And cant see a way out so living every day out a glass box [03:07.69]And waiting for the lottery to pay out [03:09.32]Sometimes the hood is like the blade of a knife [03:12.50]And got you feeling like somebody f**king stole your life uh [03:15.22]So you're living your life trying to be right [03:18.58]Chasing the game but losing your life [03:21.02]Don't you know that you are special (I know you hear me kid) [03:25.27]Special (I know you hear me) [03:27.09]Take your time to grow and be wise [03:29.28]Educate your mind in the right things [03:31.65]Don't you know that you are special [03:34.65](I know you hear me kid) special [03:37.28]Brothers killing other brothers [03:40.21]I thought the idea was to love one another [03:42.90]Switch on the T V to one more death [03:45.22]If they keep this up then who the heck'll be left [03:48.16]So I try my best to set an example [03:50.66]Saying hype lyrics over breaks and samples [03:53.10]But not just to brag or to boast but to inform [03:55.87]Cos' I wanna' see the calm and not the storm (echo)