2pac - Ballad Of A Dead Soulja lyrics

Intro - Yeah; Ballad of a dead soulja; This is the ballad of a dead soulja; This is ballad of a dead soulja; The ballad of a dead soulja; 1st verse - The plan; To take a man of the whole family; Though underhanded; To be the man it was planned; All my roaddogz; Official mob figgaz love to act up; The first to bomb when we rob n***az - i can be; Lost in my own mind; To be the boss only thought's grippin chrome nines; n***az get tossed up; War scars, battlefield memories; Swore i saw the devil in my empty gla** of hennessey; Talkin to a n***a on a tight leash; Screamin f** tha police; As i ride through the night streets; Little child runnin wild; Towards danger; What's the cause; Don't be alarmed; d**h to all strangers; Maybe i'm a madman; A pistol grabbin n***a - unleash the sandman; Promise a merciless retaliation; Nothin' is colder; Close your eyes - hear the ballad of a dead soulja; Hook 1 - (singing) Thug 4 life i will be; (2pac) This is the ballad of a dead soulja; (singing) A life of crime i will lead; (2pac) Close your eyes and hear the ballad of a dead soulja; (singing) If you play the game, you play to win; (2pac) This is the ballad of a dead soulja; (singing) It's a crazy world full of sin; (2pac) Close your eyes; 2nd verse - Completely lost; Revenge at all cost; Payback's a b**h - switch now the trick's crossed; Tossed up and never to be heard of; A single witness screamin' bloody murda - murda; Blast - tell me homie whatcha see now; A blind man and a dead body; I'm ready to leave town; And get my cash though; Hook up with kastro; Homie had to blast on the task force; Stupid coppers tried to play us out; Never that; They took my money and my stash; Time to get 'em back; (pac laughs) Upon my secret arrival; Two glock four-fives time for survival; d**h to my rivals; Tell me what you want lord; Nobody left after the d**h of a drug lord; (pac laughs) The situation's critical; Nothin' is colder; Than hearin' the ballad of a dead soulja; Hook 2 - (singing) Thug 4 life i will be; (2pac) This is the ballad of a dead soulja; (singing) A life of crime i will lead; (2pac) Close your eyes and hear the ballad of a dead soulja; (singing) If you play the game, you play to win; (2pac) This is a ballad of a dead soulja; (singing) It's a crazy world full of sin; (2pac) C-c-c-close your eyes and hear the ballad of a dead soulja; 3rd verse - Big coward put your hands to the moon; When my glocks rang out; The n***az came out - boom; Who wanna see me in a challenge?; So merciless i'm terrifyin' n***az in my ballads; Do you feel me?; Coppo a copper time; One day i'll be the don; Until then remain strong; My only fear of d**h is reincarnation; Bustin' at my adversaries like a mental patient; To all my n***az facin' sixty years; Sheddin' tattoo tears another suicide out on the tier; Takin' private planes tryin' to survive the game; For all my homies that'll never be alive again; All they promise us is d**h n***a; Take a breath - could be the last one left n***a; It's real now; Feel it and fantasize; Ain't nothin' colder; Listen you could hear it; The ballad of a dead soulja; Hook 3 - (singing) Thug 4 life i will be; (2pac) This is the ballad of a dead soulja; (singing) The life of crime i will lead; (2pac) C-c-c-close your eyes - hear the ballad of a dead soulja; (singing) If you play the game, you play to win; (2pac) This is the ballad of a dead soulja; (singing) It's a crazy world full of sin; (2pac) C-c-c-close your eyes and hear the ballad of a dead soulja; Outro - (2pac) This go out to kato, mental; All the n***az that done pa**ed away; (this is the ballad of a dead soulja) Mutulu; Geronimo; All the down a** ridahs; All the n***az that put it down; All the souljas; All the n***az that go through that day-to-day struggle; (this is the ballad of a dead soulja) All the n***az that pa**ed on; All the n***az with ambition and money in they heart; All the n***az that want some and that don't take none; (pac laughs) (this is the ballad of a dead soulja); Police is so scared of us; Oh the feds? they aware of us; They wanna see us dead; They got pictures of a n***a head; (ballad of a dead soulja) Tryin' to see me in chains; sh** - them n***az'll never breath again; Before they put me in a cell they'll see me in hell; (cause it's the ballad of a dead soulja) Got my pistols co*ked; Run the whole muthaf**in' block; f** the cops; The police? we run these streets, n***a; (they heard the ballad of a dead soulja) These n***az can't see me; Half the world wanna be me; Multi-millionaire - sh** it ain't fair; But n***a, you know (it's the ballad of a dead soulja) (it's the ballad of a dead soulja)