Tip the Scale-The Roots

[ti:Tip the Scale(feat. Dice Raw)] [ar:The Roots] [al:Undun] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Tip the Scale - The Roots [00:14.28] [00:14.96]Homicide or suicide [00:16.65]Heads or tails [00:17.84]Some think life is a living hell [00:21.35]Some live life just living well [00:24.29]I live life tryna tip the scale [00:27.51]My way my way [00:34.06]My way my way [00:38.45] [00:39.95]Yo I'm always early [00:41.70]I never take off cause I got a job [00:44.76]Rob Peter to pay Paul [00:46.51]Now I realize it's the winner that takes all [00:49.57]Do what I gotta do because I can't take loss [00:52.96]Picture me living life as if I'm some animal [00:55.98]That consumes its own dreams like I'm a cannibal [00:59.34]I won't accept failure unless it's mechanical [01:02.44]But still the alcohol mixed with the botanical [01:05.62]I guess I be referred to the owners manual full of loaners [01:09.76]Full of all the homeless throwaways and the stoners [01:12.99]Soldiers of the streets with 8th grade diplomas [01:16.21]And the world awaiting their shoulders as a bonus [01:19.40]Look let he without sin live without sin [01:22.65]Until then I'll be doing dirty jobs like swamp men [01:26.34]Counting the faces of those that might have been [01:29.59]It's like living that life but I won't live that life again [01:32.96] [01:33.21]Homicide or suicide [01:34.51]Heads or tails [01:36.07]Some think life is a living hell [01:39.02]Some live life just living well [01:41.99]I live life tryna tip the scale [01:45.21]My way my way [01:51.85]My way my way [01:56.35] [01:58.10]Lot of n*ggas go to prison [01:59.54]How many come out Malcolm X [02:01.73]I know I'm not [02:02.71]Sh*t can't even talk about the rest [02:04.90]Famous last words: "You under arrest" [02:07.99]Will I get popped tonight It's anybody's guess [02:11.21]I guess a n*gga need to stay cunning [02:14.23]I guess when the cops comin' need to start runnin' [02:17.40]I won't make the same mistakes from my last run in [02:21.15]You either done doing crime now or you done in [02:24.71]I got a brother on the run and one in [02:28.09]Wrote me a letter he said when you comin' [02:30.90]Sh*t man I thought the goal's to stay out [02:34.48]Back against the wall then shoot your way out [02:37.29]Gettin' money's a style that never plays out [02:40.41]'Til you end up boxin' your stash money's paid out [02:43.60]The scales of justice ain't equally weighed out [02:46.67]Only two ways out digging tunnels or digging graves out [02:50.40] [02:50.59]Homicide or suicide [02:51.96]Heads or tails [02:53.50]Some think life is a living hell [02:56.74]Some live life just living well [02:59.84]I live life tryna tip the scale [03:03.01]My way my way [03:09.71]My way my way [03:14.21]