Rain Water-Brother Ali

[ti:Brother Ali：Rain Water] [ar:Atmosphere] [al:You Can't Imagine How Much Fun] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Rain Water - Brother Ali [00:25.90]Uh into motherf**kin' thin air [00:28.77]Like it's never even been there [00:30.91]My joy done left me y'all [00:35.35] [00:40.47]Sh*t I never hang my head man [00:42.43]CHORUS [00:42.54] [00:44.23]And God's rain water flow through the same gutter [00:46.39]That we walk today gotta stay brave brotha [00:49.32]Keep you your lip stiff keep your fist clenched [00:51.81]At times you gotta kick your way through this b**ch [00:54.39]And I can't stop feelin' guilty smilin' [00:55.72] [00:56.87]A wise man once told me that every cloud has a silver linin' [01:00.25]I wanted to believe him but its a trick to find em' [01:03.36]When the people around me continue dyin' [01:05.61]Grandad was in the twilight of his life [01:08.41]When he closed his eyes tight and opened his wrists wide [01:10.97]What make a tenth round fighter with a winning score [01:13.84]Decide he need to throw the towel before the whistle blow [01:16.53]Maybe I'll never know but I inherited his poetic soul [01:20.13]So the sybolism's yet to show [01:22.06]Is life so obscene that death's more serine [01:24.62]Or was an old auther trying to write his own closing scene [01:27.42]Nothin stings like knowin that the woman who gave me this life is being eaten from the inside [01:32.20]I thought we'd never make sh*t right [01:34.55]I wish I'd have viewed it once clear [01:36.27]Before you were done here [01:37.71]That's two in one year that I let leave here [01:40.45]Lovin' me without shedding one single tear [01:43.26]Either I'm one of the strongest people left [01:45.57]Or ya'll should stone me for even trying to steal breath [01:48.46]And God's rain water flow through the same gutter [01:51.14]That we walk today gotta stay brave brotha [01:54.00]Keep you your lip stiff keep your fist clenched [01:56.29]At times you gotta kick your way through this b**ch [01:59.10]And God's rain water flow through the same gutter [02:01.96]That we walk today gotta stay brave brotha [02:04.21]Keep you your lip stiff keep your fist clenched [02:06.96]At times you gotta kick your way through this b**ch [02:09.91]They say "Sh*t scrapper you all by yourself ain't ya " [02:13.47]Damn straight I got a jail cell nature [02:15.67]Been boxed up but I've never been settled in [02:18.36]Then got tough started developing leather skin [02:21.19]I learned to make that face that tells predators [02:23.35]It's better to reassess just who you bout to wrestle with [02:26.39]I'm on one like the first kick drum of the beat [02:29.52]Clear my lungs spit blood on the street [02:31.90]They tellin me we got nothing to fear but fear itself [02:34.33] [02:34.90]But I fear I have no human fear left [02:37.15]Someday I'm gonna wanna peel back these calluses [02:40.21]And really feel life again and that where my challenge is [02:42.89]I've been kickin and bitin for so long [02:45.09]That when they throw me a rescue rope I'll be too weary to hold on [02:48.86]And see the light So I sing through the tears [02:51.18]In the key of life the way a wounded ego might [02:53.45]And God's rain water flow through the same gutter [02:55.71]That we walk today gotta stay brave brotha [02:58.46]Keep you your lip stiff keep your fist clenched [03:01.14]At times you gotta kick your way through this b**ch [03:04.13]And God's rain water flow through the same gutter [03:06.56]That we walk today gotta stay brave brotha [03:09.12]Keep you your lip stiff keep your fist clenched [03:11.95]At times you gotta kick your way through this b**ch [03:14.82]BRIDGE [03:15.50] [03:16.31]My joy done left me ya'll [03:18.06]She don't show her face around these parts [03:20.49]Every time she come she gets chased off [03:23.49]So she stays distant [03:25.62]Verse 3 [03:25.49]If it weren't for me squintin he wouldn't know the sun was out [03:28.64]I hate every word that come out of his f**kin mouth [03:31.31]Ladies treat him special don't know nothin bout him [03:34.17]If they saw what his wife see they wouldn't fuss about him [03:36.61]He can't do sh*t right but rap and make babies [03:39.10]And babies need daddy at home consistent [03:41.54]But rap keep daddy on the road religious [03:44.41]So even in my two loves my soul is so conflicted [03:47.72]My son came into this world innocent [03:50.01]And he deserves everything that needs to live in it [03:52.94]And this home I made for him is broken [03:55.13]I'm hopin his love for me will never grow thin [03:57.92]It hurts daddy to know and to know when [03:59.98] [04:00.56]You were cryin at the hospital I'm out tryin to rock a show [04:03.75]I made a vow that we'd never be broke again [04:06.24]And I'd never be a burden on another friend [04:08.80]So when I've sweated on my farewell stage [04:11.55]When I've wrote my last hook in my last rhyme book [04:14.17]When I get the last nod of approval from my family [04:16.91]This is the man I have to be [04:19.71]And God's rain water flow through the same gutter [04:21.65]That we walk today gotta stay brave brotha [04:24.39]Keep you your lip stiff keep your fist clenched [04:27.27]At times you gotta kick your way through this b**ch [04:30.38]And God's rain water flow through the same gutter [04:32.57]That we walk today gotta stay brave brotha [04:35.19]Keep you your lip stiff keep your fist clenched [04:38.17]At times you gotta kick your way through this b**ch [04:40.91]And God's rain water flow through the same gutter [04:43.43]That we walk today gotta stay brave brotha [04:45.98]Keep you your lip stiff keep your fist clenched [04:48.95]At times you gotta kick your way through this b**ch [04:51.57] [04:52.56]And God's rain water flow through the same gutter [04:54.62]That we walk today gotta stay brave brotha [04:56.87]Keep you your lip stiff keep your fist clenched [04:59.72]At times you gotta kick your way through this b**ch [05:03.71] [05:14.44]Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone You ever felt that way