Broken-Slaine/V Knuckles/Cyrus DeShield

[ti:Broken (Feat. V Knuckles & Cyr] [ar:Slaine] [al:A World With No Skies 2.0 [Exp] [offset:0] [00:20.30]I remember Jay Rich we grew up together [00:22.51]Spitting game at little dames trying to f**k whatever [00:25.13]Ten years old, already with a lust for cheddar [00:27.58]He was smart though for real the young buck was clever [00:30.17]A few years went by, we still stuck together [00:32.42]Plotting armed robberies to get bucks for leathers [00:34.86]Played with guns, it was fun to clutch Berettas [00:37.67]But up in school my dude still had his stuff together [00:40.11]On the court he would score I would scream on the refs [00:42.92]He used to study on the low, I would cheat on the test [00:45.36]When he started selling crack said it was easy to chef [00:47.74]Then I heard he caught a body, stabbed a fiend in the steps [00:50.42]I needed a breath, his dream was to grow up to be rich [00:53.05]Be an astronaut with a house and the V6 [00:55.42]But he switched, the streets turned to man to a goon [00:57.92]I always thought he’d be the first black man on the moon, damn [01:00.92]I just don’t know why my eyes won’t cry [01:07.08]Guess that they’re broken [01:10.50]These lies mask and disguise [01:14.31]My past I can’t hide, I guess that I’m broken [01:19.78]Yeah the sidewalks are lined with trapdoors [01:22.23]The city maze is impossible to escape [01:24.95]All the *ty days that remind us of environments so mindless [01:28.39]And violence is followed by foot chases and sirens [01:30.86]Leap frog with police dogs, dirty piece tossed [01:33.72]Palms greased cause these pigs gotta eat more [01:36.10]Phil had the ill took connect down in? [01:38.35]Every other week it’s up and down like a seesaw [01:41.10]Cold blooded beast, dude even fed his niece raw [01:43.47]Used to be a good girl turned to a cheap whore [01:46.22]Nowadays everybody’s caught up in that street law [01:48.85]They found that *’s body blue down by the seashore [01:51.42]I ain’t write sh*t to glorify it or exaggerate [01:53.85]I ain’t write these lyrics to be shocking or to agitate [01:56.48]Every other week it seems I see another tragic wake [01:58.72]Inside this broken world full of kids who never had a break [02:01.35]I just don’t know why my eyes won’t cry [02:07.60]Guess that they’re broken [02:10.91]These lies mask and disguise [02:14.86]My past I can’t hide, I guess that I’m broken [02:21.51]This life is real, got friends doing life in jail [02:23.82]And we all trying to eat so we fight for meals [02:26.37]Never been the type to squeal, I stand on my own two [02:28.98]Funny how when you’re broke your people disown you [02:31.65]The actuality of this life is stabbing me with a knife [02:34.33]You see the flames when the heaters ignite [02:36.13]Fiends with a pipe, hustlers moving greed in the night [02:38.82]The demon’s in sight, the devil still scheming is trife [02:41.51]And all I see is this beast that keeps eating its young [02:44.07]Deceit and lies from the serpent that’s the media’s tongue [02:46.81]On the surface it would seem easy for me to become [02:48.94]Drunk on hard liquor, chewing pills, I need to be numb [02:51.44]Not to sound stupid really, I don’t mean to be dumb [02:54.19]But all it takes where I’m from is a scheme and a gun [02:56.55]And a whip and a b**ch and some coke and a drink [02:58.99]And some balls and a crew, sh*t I’m broke and I think [03:01.74]I just don’t know why my eyes won’t cry [03:07.94]Guess that they’re broken [03:11.30]These lies mask and disguise [03:15.28]My past I can’t hide, I guess that I’m broken