Like Toy Soldiers-Original Cartel

[ti:Like Toy Soldiers] [ar:Original Cartel] [al:A Tribute to Eminem] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.96]Step by step heart to heart left right left [00:05.10]We all fall down [00:06.83] [00:09.40]Step by step heart to heart left right left [00:13.80]We all fall down like toy soldiers [00:18.69] [00:21.29]Bit by bit torn apart we never win [00:25.57]But the battle wages on for toy soldiers [00:30.47] [00:32.83]I'm supposed to be the soldier [00:34.16]Who never blows his posure [00:35.76]Even though I hold the weight [00:37.15]Of the whole world on my shoulders [00:38.72]I am never supposed to show it [00:40.22]My crew ain't supposed to know it [00:41.61]Even if it means goin' toe to toe [00:43.32]With a Benzino it don't matter [00:45.02]I'd never drag them in battles [00:46.45]That I can handle unless I absolutely have to [00:48.70]I'm supposed to set an example [00:50.25]I need to be the leader my crew looks for me to guide 'em [00:53.49]If some sh*t ever just pop off I'm supposed to be beside 'em [00:56.46]Now Ja said I tried to squash it it was too late to stop it [00:59.22]There's a certain line you just don't cross and he crossed it [01:02.15]I heard him say Hailie's name on a song and I just lost it [01:05.37]It was crazy this sh*t be way beyond some Jay-z and Nas sh*t [01:08.37]And even though the battle was won I feel like we lost it [01:11.12]I spent too much energy on it honestly I'm exhausted [01:13.73]And I'm so caught in it I almost feel I'm the one who caused it [01:17.07]This ain't what I'm in hip-hop for it's not why I got in it [01:19.90]That was never my object for someone to get killed [01:22.36]Why would I wanna destroy something I help build [01:25.42]It wasn't my intentions my intentions was good [01:28.65]I went through my whole career without ever mentionin' [01:30.80] [01:37.51]Plus Dre told me stay out this just wasn't my beef [01:40.34]So I did I just fell back watched and gritted my teeth [01:43.23]While he's all over t v down talkin' [01:45.42]A man who literally saved my life [01:47.45]Like f**k it i understand this is business [01:49.89]And this sh*t just isn't none of my business [01:52.01]But still knowin' this sh*t could pop off at any minute cuz [01:55.26]Step by step heart to heart left right left [01:59.28]We all fall down like toy soldiers [02:04.27] [02:06.88]Bit by bit torn apart we never win [02:11.09]But the battle wages on for toy soldiers [02:15.96] [02:18.79]There used to be a time when you could just say a rhyme [02:20.94]And wouldn't have to worry about one of your people dyin' [02:24.01]But now it's elevated cuz once you put someone's kids in it [02:27.36]The sh*t gets escalated it ain't just words no more is it [02:30.25]It's a different ball game callin' names and you ain't just rappin' [02:32.99]We actually tried to stop the 50 and Ja beef from happenin' [02:36.21]Me and Dre had sat with him kicked it and had a chat with him [02:39.27]And asked him not to start it he wasn't gonna go after him [02:41.81]Until Ja started yappin' in magazines how we stabbed him [02:44.54]F**k it 50 smash 'em mash 'em and let him have it [02:47.88]Meanwhile my attention is pullin' in other directions [02:50.49]Some receptionist at The Source who answers phones at his desk [02:53.51]Has an erection for me and thinks that I'll be his ressurection [02:56.60]Tries to blow the dust off his mic and make a new record [02:59.82]But now he's f**ked the game up cuz one of the ways I came up [03:02.42]Was through that publication [03:03.73]The same one that made me famous [03:05.52]Now the owner of it has got a grudge against me for nothin' [03:08.34]Well f**k it that mutherf**ker can get it too f**k him then [03:11.46]But I'm so busy being pissed off I don't stop to think [03:14.33]That we just inherited 50's beef with Murder Inc [03:17.21]And he's inherited mine which is fine ain't like either of us mind [03:20.44]We still have soldiers that's on the front line [03:22.90]That's willing to die for us as soon as we give the orders [03:26.27]Never to extort us strictly to show they support us [03:28.88]We'll maybe shout 'em out in a rap or up in a chorus [03:31.75]To show them we love 'em back [03:33.42]And let 'em know how important it is [03:35.13]To have run ya nav and who sulked us up in our corners [03:37.81]Their loyalty to us is worth more than any award is [03:40.66]But I ain't tryna have none of my people hurt and murdered [03:43.52]There ain't words that I can't think of a perfecter way to word it [03:46.68]Then to just say that I love ya'll too much to see the virdict [03:49.39]I'll walk away from it all before I let it go any further [03:52.58]But don't get it twisted it's not a plea that I'm coppin' [03:55.36]I'm just willin' to be the bigger man [03:57.19]If ya'll can quit poppin' off at your jaws with the knockin' [03:59.85]Cuz frankly I'm sick of talkin' [04:01.27]I'm not gonna let someone elses [04:02.67]Coffin rest on my conscience cuz [04:04.25]Step by step heart to heart left right left [04:08.37]We all fall down like toy soldiers [04:13.24] [04:16.05]Bit by bit torn apart we never win [04:20.34]But the battle wages on for toy soldiers [04:25.08] [04:28.88]Like Toy Soldiers - Original Cartel