Fighting-Goodie Mob

[ti:Fighting] [ar:Goodie Mob] [al:Soul Food] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Fighting - Goodie Mob [00:14.07]Put me in a serious situation hope I get another chance [00:16.54]To live life as I know [00:18.10]4:30 was the time I'm feelin' a pain in my chest [00:21.71]I guess I smoke too much sess [00:23.32]Makin' a ni**a mo' slow off the doe in [00:25.40]Olympian bubblin' under who [00:26.71]Where's the crew thick mist in the trail [00:29.96]I'm feelin' pressure off the tess [00:31.51]Spine advertising swine on Channel [00:32.75]2 when in the same breath [00:34.50]You tellin' me don't eat from that plate increasin' my blood [00:37.33]Outbreaks on my skin don't blend with [00:39.12]The way I want this thang to flow [00:40.97]If I can help the cause don't have to treat it with no tricks [00:44.42]You settin' me cancer on a stick [00:46.13]Visualize destruction soon to come [00:47.72]Throwin' within this city we call Atlantis [00:50.19]Prayin' like a mantis everyday ain't good [00:52.78]In the woods of Southwest [00:54.26]I stress in my rhymes fighting [00:55.59]For yo' spirit and you mind [00:57.64]So what it be like my brother be catching gangrene [00:59.86]The water be brown in the morning in my sink [01:02.09]Who that in my eyes some [01:03.39]Clampett eaten away by fungi [01:04.70]Another virus disease at ease [01:06.60]Quick to lead a strike against Haiti [01:09.07]When half your army in the bed with pains in their back [01:11.90]And behind their head [01:12.93]Witch doctors giving more Medicaid but ain't no aid [01:15.32]But these ain't tha same from [01:17.03]'Nam didn't give a damn [01:18.46]Who only wanted Saddam now your hands numb [01:20.94]Can't run old age before thirty [01:22.53]This what you wanted when [01:23.88]You signed your (hand) 'cock on tha line [01:26.31]Fightin' for your spirit and your mind [01:28.29]Service to my kind [01:29.22]Seems like we're fighting for our spirit and mind [01:37.47]They got us fighting for our spirit and mind [01:41.09]Still fighting for our spirit and mind [01:45.15]We can't stop fighting for our spirit and mind [01:50.59]Multiple stab wounds sticin' thru [01:52.04]In the ol' school Cutlass Supreme [01:55.20]Thirty-five cents to my name and that's fo' a blunt man [01:58.40]The way thangs goin' today [01:59.73]I might as well be dead so dread [02:02.42]The voices on the radio got me seamed [02:04.65]Can't put a smile on my face [02:06.43]'Cause my pockets ain't straight [02:07.60]At least not the way I want 'em to be [02:09.93]Early as phuckk eight fifty-one [02:10.90]Last night I barely got some Z's sleep uh [02:13.05]I can't ol' Burd in the next room havin' nightmares [02:16.11]It sound like wind blowin' when she weep speak [02:19.29]I can't I'm tired on the way to the slave camp [02:22.43]I utter very little words [02:23.80]I'm thinkin' about a ciggy I snatched [02:25.69]From the jaws of death a sack of crumbled herb [02:28.66]Rollin' down Main Street [02:29.79]East Point I swerve Campbelton Rd Southside [02:32.22]Eight fify-five jacket at bus top standin' sweatin' but I ain't [02:35.57]Smilin [02:36.00]Outside it's twenty below fool I'm ridin' to the liquor store [02:40.17]Closed that's right I go hotta at this beeso I know [02:43.29]Who work at the Texaco Gas station [02:45.66]Pacin' back down memory lane [02:47.37]Feelin' strange can't Explain so bare wit me pleae [02:50.24]Thru this green light I sees [02:51.78]That tramp that gave me herpes wreck [02:53.60]Wham crash stumblin' jumps out [02:56.69]The ride empty the glock fo' five D E A D [02:58.92]Woke up handcuffed inside Grady [03:01.59]Tagged with an I-U-D (intoxicated una dank) [03:03.61]I took two swiggs outts my deuce-deuce old E [03:06.66]Now Stephen K-I-N-G had the story all wrong [03:09.54]Blood last five points I'm gone [03:11.61](Cee-Lo) [03:12.50]As individuals and as a people we are at war [03:15.14]But the majority of my side got they eyes open wide [03:23.47]But still don't recognize what we fighting fo [03:25.79]I guess that's what I'm writing for to try to she'd some light [03:30.26]But we been in the darkness for so long [03:32.16]Don't know right from wrong [03:33.25]Y'all scared to come near it you ignore the voice [03:35.33]In your head when you hear it [03:36.80]The enemy is after yo' spirit [03:38.03]But you think it's all in yo' mind [03:40.64]You'll find a lot of the reason we behind [03:42.52]Is because the system is designed to keep our third eyes blind [03:46.31]But not blind in the sense that our other two eyes can't see [03:49.21]You just end investing quality time [03:50.47]In places you don't even neeed to be [03:52.66]We don't even know who we are [03:54.23]But the answer ain't far [03:55.58]Matter of fact it's right up under our nose [03:58.09]But the system taught us to keep that book closed [04:00.53]See the reason why he gotta lie and deceive is so [04:02.96]That we won't act accordingly [04:04.18]To get the blessings we suppose to receive [04:06.33]Yeah it's true Uncle Sam wants you to be a devil too [04:09.40]See he's jealous because his skin is a curse but what's worse [04:13.52]Is if I put it in a verse y'all listen to some b******t first [04:16.89]We ain't natural born killas [04:17.88]We are a spiritual people [04:19.60]God's chosen few [04:21.13]Think about the slave trade when they had boats with [04:25.33]Thousands of us on board [04:26.40]And we still was praising [04:27.35]The Lord now you ready to die [04:30.79]Over a coat a necklace round your throat that's b******t [04:34.26]Black people ya'll better realize [04:36.00]We losin you better fight and die [04:38.34]If you got to get yo' spirit and mind back [04:42.01]And we got to do it together [04:43.67]Goodie Mob means [04:44.69]"The Good Die Mostly Over Bullshit" [04:46.23]You take away one "O" and it will let you know [04:49.76]"God is Every Man of Blackness" [04:51.72]The Lord has spoken thru me and the G-Mo-B