V1 I'm ready to go to war with myself, I got a ak-47 with a suppressor for stealth Silently k**in myself, these lies will put me to hell Because deceit is a sin and the people who need the help Are only digging to 6-feet, I call that the quick cheat The only way out is to battle what makes you weak I let these people walk in me and see my secret strategy So they take advantage, prayin since they got a vantage point Maybe the lord will save me. But another plan escapes me I don't need it but I want it, I don't see it but I own it Hoping when they attack, I'll take advantage of what I'm holding But If I squeeze it I become it, IF I run it I won't live through it It's often through conflicts like this that make a coward wanna quit Even through nights like this, Even at times like this We're always quick to judge, what if the shoe was on the opposite foot Would you release your grudge? Hook See these dark days, You let em stay on replay You wondering what may keep you away from your sacred place And I'm hoping one day, I can push the fear away So one day I'll warn myself from my own mistake But the past is the past, I'll look back and hope that It doesn't happen again But I can promise myself that it won't happen again Dear friend, in the end, it's not when, if you are heaven sent Verse 2 So I'm getting off the bus, it ulls off second shot, third shot Realizing that I'm soft enough for the bullets to penetrate me It's too late I see him aiming at me, Inside me. 1 bullet 2 bullet 3 Another two behind me sweep me off my feet I look into his eyes, and he watches his defeat HE drops the slugger he ducks for cover, I'm pullin out the caps like They was some motha f**in splinters 1 bullet, 2 bullet 3. The other two behind me are stuck in there pretty deep They hit the spine that I thought I never had My left leg is twitching while I'm screamin for my dad I couldn't let my momma see me this bad. I'm hurtin, bleedin and I'm crying My uncle looks at me and tells me to stop whining But my skin grew over call it a horror thinking that I'm disfigured by I'm alive Those two are significant so I stand up, Ignore the pain embraces the gain Runnin thru the pouring rain to survive. Above and beyond all the lies Is what I need to get outside the inside that hoping that I will die To his surprise, I'm standing tall lookin dead in his eyes saying How does it feel to fail the only task you were given? God's grace is getting stronger by the minute don't you feel it? That's me winnin, standing tall against aggression Opposition clears my vision, Clearly driven now I'm living Hook V3 Detaching in fact I'm branching my tree of life This hostile lifestyle has gotten me all up in they sights I'm compound fracturing making sure manufacturing slowly comes to a halt So I can storm this pl ace and revolt But these archfiends hulk up so they can stop & back me up into a wall With weapons to paralyze me hoping it'll stall The success that I worked for. I'm on the floor, I look up but who do I call on for? Do you know how it feels to see someone you love change into someone they're not? Do you know the pressure on your heart that holds you to your bottom spot? And you think it stops, but really it's just a forgotten thought The memories you had as they progress into a growing stop The tears will drop as they unravel themselves before you Like a catapillar breaking its caccoon, flying away into the bloom It's too soon everything that I experienced within this But this nightmare turned tragedy will teach me how to live through this Through all of this it formed mental scars, tattooed on my skin Burning as it's etched in, it's there forever, So I'm reminded to live for the better I look back on it just a small meaningful image To remind me that my life is and always will be worth living It'll free me from being, possibly seeing everything It's only a test to be vexed is to be blessed So count up the soul hidden underneath your breast