Living Legends - Hold Your Own lyrics

Album: Creative Differences feat.Bica**o and Ragen Fykes (Intro - Ragen) Hold my own (Grouch) I pa** now and maybe have fun later Sacrifice feeling nice the outcome's layered Surface is so centered 'round greed I need peace And that's a long road to travel the gravel beneath feet Sands first severe the worst stayed near I persevere Inside I need discipline Lower the tide I'm drowning in sound and sight drunk off light Dim to him and show that we unite vision I'm all seeing who's livin' for love's sake Thinking above great limits and tomorrow I'll win it Today my task finish with my heart in it Starred in it like a blockbuster's jock Real people respect with equal effects back Plant the seed check that then when you get back Blend, once you've learned to be a friend Men recognize how to speak and when So start for yards gained next I pa** on what's stressed in the present 'Cause I'm fresh for the future (Chorus – Ragen) Gotta separate myself from this world Grasp is pure and love is good Hold my own at least I'm free But sacrifice it sets the fate (Eligh) Beats made by the lips and teeth and streets Freaks high school like non-athletes nor geeks Cleats with the rhymes that dug deep into the beat Made by colleagues over asphalt quite unique In spite of a forthright notion that we were discreet We made our presence known through poetry on the quad Odd as it may seem daydreams start from a nod Sweet like Pralines were reactions on the spot From the parking lot where the narcs would catch you with a joint To the point where you can't smoke a cigarette without the sweat I bet if I went to cla** and didn't have no interest in the a** I'd circulate my energy to the gra** Where we gathered in circles representing the revolution Evolution of mind patterns gathering resolution To the daily constitution of psyche to the institution Of High School Hamilton high dues lamped in a ritual Habitual constitution Never bite never steal the light never hog the mike Invisible to the sight never say lyrical and miracle In the same rhyme at the same time (yeah, right) Under the code at the age of fifteen like young men In the service swerving and curving through potholes And gutter snipes and rotweillers and bottom feeders Spring autumn and winter from beginner to intermediate Specialists in the winter never not a sinner but Fond of glimmering truth on the roof with a pair of Binoculars and one hundred and fifty-one proof Boots that stomped through puddles of acid tabs Flaccid laughs at the way I move when I bust my raps At last it's my time to shine Travel the world and make due what's mine Never give up from the plastic bump and grind Rhinestone reality in these shiny days of mine It's just the sacrifices made That got me where I need to be today (Chorus – Ragen) (Bica**o) Put me in a pot stir me up let me marinate In the spice of life then simmer sauté What I say and what I do make sure that smells right And taste the love too when I'm done I'll be ready To serve to my people the stuff that we can grow from Knowin' what level we live we only equal to the work That we put into our lives that's what we get out You having these doubts well first things first Up early in the morning feel the burning in your eyes Make sure to keep them open wash them out and realize That your wakin' up alive give thanks for another day Another way to figure out just how you gonna survive Sacrifice is key multiply what it is to be Sprinkle in some discipline I put that on me Keep your soul so focused thing that I bet you could see Have it clearer than a vision quest open your chest Dig in your heart hold your love tight it just might Be a certain premonition that you needed in life Through the performing intuition if you heeded it right When you ride the wave of light certain things fall in place It's a matter of your space and time and how you use it I put that on mine and meditate to the music (to the music X2) (Chorus – Ragen) Hold my own (X2)