I Didn't Ask To Come-Goodie Mob

[ti:I Didn't Ask To Come] [ar:Goodie Mob] [al:Soul Food] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Didn't Ask To Come - Goodie Mob [00:10.91]Everyday somebody gets killed [00:12.30]What's the deal it's 1995 [00:14.11]And a ni**a wanna live the type of [00:16.89]Life that people dream [00:17.80]I want things a crib a car while living the life of a king [00:21.60]I know I take for granted at times for what I got [00:24.27]Still hustlin' and bustlin' [00:25.11]And now and then I stand a pop or two to come up [00:27.81]A steady battle through the days [00:29.67]Mamma think I'm wrong because I wanna get paid [00:32.19]The system ain't given T-mo a chance [00:33.96]22 on the loose and black [00:35.33]Trying to get the noose a little slack around my neck [00:38.80]They making it hard for a brother to cope [00:40.92]It's still illegal to smoke cess cause they can't tax [00:43.39]I'm ready to go up sh*t until they give my freedom back [00:45.66]Service to what who [00:46.64]Damn you got caught sought away out [00:48.61]The trait is getting full calling up your pull [00:54.18]But pull ain't got it [00:55.24]I fell cold inside like [00:56.19]A man sleeping on pavement [00:57.60]Under the bridge of I-20 west [00:59.10]And stress on the face of the man [01:01.55]Cussing out the atmosphere [01:02.41]With nobody close enough to hear [01:04.37]And who dat miss they fee [01:05.98]'Cause all they personal sh*t [01:07.26]Is sitting on the front lawn of Apple Tree [01:09.34]And for those who ain't got take [01:11.06]Before the owner shows back up with the U-haul [01:13.78]Police you call [01:14.66]But wasn't no marshall there to watch your stuff [01:16.79]See I stand tall to this world [01:18.56]Like a kid walking rapping his rhymes to himself [01:20.75]A book on a shelf of many [01:22.67]MC's seen them come and go [01:24.42]Style free with Cool Breeze [01:26.17]Til it's thick like dat fog [01:27.94]Stacking away my extra for a engine for tha hog [01:30.36]Dropping a point from the East [01:31.97]>From a location out tha trees [01:33.65]360 degrees [01:34.20]Born into these crooked ways [01:38.11]I never even ask to come so now [01:40.65]I'm living in the days [01:41.73]I struggle and fight to stay alive [01:43.37]Hoping that one day I'd earn the chance to die [01:47.20]Pallbearer to this one pallbearer to that one [01:50.26]Can't seem to get a grip 'cause my palms is sweatin' [01:53.29]Niggas ain't getting no where fast but [01:55.13]Closer to the hearse [01:55.97]Why sunbeam burst off baskets nearly blinding me [01:58.13] [02:00.01]Almost dropped ma end of the casket [02:02.16]Woodgrain and the only thang on my brain [02:04.87]Is where this coward hang [02:06.39](SWATS) South West Atlanta Fountain Lane [02:08.74]Forgot the batch niggah got thirty years [02:11.98]Lord forgive me and my foes I know [02:14.57]Revenge is best served when cold by those [02:16.85]Who feel no guilt [02:17.82]God don't care whether you got a spade or not [02:20.28]Ain't no turning in your playing hand you was dealt [02:22.79]Better tighten up your belt man always go with [02:25.45]The first instinct because I don't make the rules [02:28.15]Oooh you know how it is in these streets [02:30.71]Victims rarely get a chance to think twice [02:32.97]As he laid in the final resting place [02:35.48]He had such a peaceful expression in his face [02:38.01]My visions blurry from crying [02:39.52]But it ain't hard to see that [02:41.16]At any time it coulda been me [02:43.08]It's about 90 degrees outside [02:44.77]But yet it felt like i'm froze [02:46.51]The ceremonies come to a close [02:47.90]I toss a rose but just can't seem to walk away yet [02:52.82]Damn I done f**ked around and got upset [02:54.64]But it ain't nothing we can do [02:56.12]It's bigger than me and you [02:57.58]One day our time coming too [02:58.87]So ain't no use in being sad [03:01.47]Leaving here was probably the best gift he ever had [03:03.95]We should be glad [03:05.01]Maybe his life was something [03:06.47]That he had to give to show me [03:08.28]That I need to be responsible about how I live [03:11.20]I won't complain about my pain [03:12.81]But I just ain't gone let my niggas die in vain [03:15.34]So Bean I'm gone make it for you [03:17.02]The cycle that these young black men keep goin through [03:19.41]I'm gone break it for you [03:20.75]And start takin care of me [03:22.20]And me consist of all my friends and my family [03:25.20]From now on until I'm gone [03:29.36]Born into these crooked ways [03:31.13]I never even ask to come so now [03:33.24]I'm living in the days [03:34.45]I struggle and fight to stay alive [03:36.25]Hoping that one day I'd earn the chance to die [03:39.63]Pallbearer to this one pallbearer to that one [03:41.87]Can't seem to get a grip 'cause [03:44.22]My palms is sweatin'