所属专辑:The Undisputed Truth (Explicit)
歌手: Brother Ali
时长: 03:24
The Puzzle - Brother Ali[00:00:00]
Who's to blame for the state I'm in[00:00:00]
I play my cards but somehow I can't win[00:00:02]
Listen when life leaves you beaten up[00:00:05]
Don't lay around in it hurry pick them pieces up[00:00:07]
Cling closely to the people you love[00:00:10]
They're your umbrella when the weathers tough[00:00:12]
See to it that your head is up[00:00:14]
If not just remember this[00:00:16]
Just never let your chest and your chin touch in public[00:00:17]
Those that stand against us would love this[00:00:20]
Man f**k them something's bugging em'[00:00:23]
They feel inadequate or something and that's been dug in 'em[00:00:25]
So deep they can't stand someone else making sh*t[00:00:28]
Player hatred same concept created satan[00:00:31]
Play 'em no never mind let 'em play their part[00:00:34]
They're here to make us prove we are[00:00:37]
What we say we are[00:00:38]
We say we are the hard hearted[00:00:40]
Been discarded from everything we've ever been part of[00:00:41]
They just robbed it[00:00:44]
Unguarded tormented and tortured[00:00:45]
And got nothing but scars and grey hairs to show for it[00:00:48]
F**k that every stone that's ever been cast[00:00:51]
Or blow that ever landed[00:00:53]
Helped to build that man that's standing before your bitch ass[00:00:55]
And back to wreak havoc and never retired retreated or recanted[00:00:58]
I don't expect you to have stood where I'm standing[00:01:02]
Why repsect is the only thing I'm demanding[00:01:05]
Try you and I could build this understanding[00:01:08]
You can't honestly shake unless you know where my hand's been brother[00:01:10]
This is a piece of my puzzle now[00:01:14]
Through the years I found peace in my struggle now[00:01:16]
If we were put here to carry a great weight[00:01:19]
The very things we hate are here to build those muscles[00:01:22]
This is a piece of my puzzle now[00:01:26]
Through the years I found peace in my struggle now[00:01:28]
Whose to blame for the state I'm in yours truly[00:01:31]
I play my cards but somehow I can't win[00:01:33]
Listen I was taught that mistakes made with great intentions[00:01:35]
Were never sins but where life lessons begin[00:01:39]
Now that I'm 27 single father starting over yet again[00:01:42]
I am who I have to forgive[00:01:45]
Lost my mumma to cancer closed a 10 year chapter shortly after[00:01:48]
Can't deny that was some shit[00:01:51]
Alone in this life[00:01:53]
Would've been at my throat with a knife chop[00:01:54]
Were it not for my passion to live[00:01:56]
Follow my soul not that I don't know the penalty[00:01:59]
But that's the legacy that I pass to my kids[00:02:01]
Heard of shining in the heat of the moment[00:02:05]
And won my freedom the moment I realised that's what this is[00:02:07]
A piece of my puzzle now[00:02:11]
Through the years I found peace in my struggle now[00:02:13]
If we were put here to carry a great weight[00:02:16]
The very things we hate are here to build those muscles[00:02:18]
This is a piece of my puzzle now[00:02:22]
Through the years I found peace in my struggle now[00:02:25]
Whose to blame for the state I'm in you are[00:02:27]
I play my cards but somehow I can't win[00:02:30]
I can't believe my eyes Lord[00:02:33]
I don't know what I'm seeing[00:02:36]
I done watched them smash into little pieces everything I've been building[00:02:39]
I can't believe my ears Lord[00:02:44]
I don't know what I'm hearing[00:02:47]
I heard they smash into little pieces everything I've been building[00:02:50]
I can't believe my eyes Lord[00:02:56]
I don't know what I'm seeing[00:02:59]
I done watched them smash into little pieces everything I've been building[00:03:01]
I can't believe my ears Lord[00:03:07]
I don't know what I'm hearing[00:03:10]
I heard they smash into little pieces everything I've been building[00:03:13]
Whose to blame for the state I'm in[00:03:18]
I play my cards but somehow I can't win[00:03:21]