[00:00:00] Brother Ali:Rain Water - Atmosphere [00:00:25] Uh into motherf**kin' thin air [00:00:28] Like it's never even been there [00:00:30] My joy done left me y'all [00:00:40] Shit I never hang my head man [00:00:42] CHORUS [00:00:44] And God's rain water flow through the same gutter [00:00:46] That we walk today gotta stay brave brotha [00:00:49] Keep you your lip stiff keep your fist clenched [00:00:51] At times you gotta kick your way through this bitch [00:00:54] And I can't stop feelin' guilty smilin' [00:00:56] A wise man once told me that every cloud has a silver linin' [00:01:00] I wanted to believe him but its a trick to find em' [00:01:03] When the people around me continue dyin' [00:01:05] Grandad was in the twilight of his life [00:01:08] When he closed his eyes tight and opened his wrists wide [00:01:10] What make a tenth round fighter with a winning score [00:01:13] Decide he need to throw the towel before the whistle blow [00:01:16] Maybe I'll never know but I inherited his poetic soul [00:01:20] So the sybolism's yet to show [00:01:21] Is life so obscene that death's more serine [00:01:24] Or was an old auther trying to write his own closing scene [00:01:27] Nothin stings like knowin that the woman who gave me this life is being eaten from the inside [00:01:32] I thought we'd never make shit right [00:01:34] I wish I'd have viewed it once clear [00:01:36] Before you were done here [00:01:37] That's two in one year that I let leave here [00:01:40] Lovin' me without shedding one single tear [00:01:43] Either I'm one of the strongest people left [00:01:45] Or ya'll should stone me for even trying to steal breath [00:01:48] And God's rain water flow through the same gutter [00:01:51] That we walk today gotta stay brave brotha [00:01:53] Keep you your lip stiff keep your fist clenched [00:01:56] At times you gotta kick your way through this bitch [00:01:59] And God's rain water flow through the same gutter [00:02:01] That we walk today gotta stay brave brotha [00:02:04] Keep you your lip stiff keep your fist clenched [00:02:06] At times you gotta kick your way through this bitch [00:02:09] They say "Shit scrapper you all by yourself ain't ya " [00:02:13] Damn straight I got a jail cell nature [00:02:15] Been boxed up but I've never been settled in [00:02:18] Then got tough started developing leather skin [00:02:21] I learned to make that face that tells predators [00:02:23] It's better to reassess just who you bout to wrestle with [00:02:26] I'm on one like the first kick drum of the beat [00:02:29] Clear my lungs spit blood on the street [00:02:31] They tellin me we got nothing to fear but fear itself [00:02:34] But I fear I have no human fear left [00:02:37] Someday I'm gonna wanna peel back these calluses [00:02:40] And really feel life again and that where my challenge is [00:02:42] I've been kickin and bitin for so long [00:02:45] That when they throw me a rescue rope I'll be too weary to hold on [00:02:48] And see the light So I sing through the tears [00:02:51] In the key of life the way a wounded ego might [00:02:53] And God's rain water flow through the same gutter [00:02:55] That we walk today gotta stay brave brotha [00:02:58] Keep you your lip stiff keep your fist clenched [00:03:01] At times you gotta kick your way through this bitch [00:03:04] And God's rain water flow through the same gutter [00:03:06] That we walk today gotta stay brave brotha [00:03:09] Keep you your lip stiff keep your fist clenched [00:03:11] At times you gotta kick your way through this bitch [00:03:14] BRIDGE [00:03:16] My joy done left me ya'll [00:03:17] She don't show her face around these parts [00:03:20] Every time she come she gets chased off [00:03:23] So she stays distant [00:03:25] If it weren't for me squintin he wouldn't know the sun was out [00:03:25] Verse 3 [00:03:28] I hate every word that come out of his f**kin mouth