MF DOOM - Life Gamble lyrics

[Verse One] I'm not your average fella or your hood bandit street dweller That's selling dope just to stack cheddar Grandmama thinks that cause my pants sagging I'mma be influenced by all of them gang-banger I'm not trynna get caught up in that category Tell my kids a story about a brother named Cory who got shot It's that stereotype train of thought, more often then not Hip-Hop's got veins popping out my cranium Have them looking like Spontaneum, about to blow up just like an Arabian I'm going Super Sayian, what you saying, cause I ain't playing This game of life is filled with snakes and fakes Gotta look straight, no swerving Trynna get that higher learning by reading facts The rest of y'all living your life in white and black Give them some color like NBC, got them reporting me daily like I'm on CTV But they watching me through the eagle eye, CBS Who's the next damsel in distress? Cause the villains are slipping going to prison, I ain't tripping I keep my distance from the trouble Ain't trynna break down like minerals and rubble So come huddle up, skip cla** like double dutch Remember the days I had to hustle if I wanted lunch Global grinding through the rhyming, I wasn't seeing the green I had to get my optics focused, my eyes were distorted, out of order Sorta like the soda machine High-beams beaming, down the road of success, I peeped the address Atlantic division is what I rep I want those Grammies and Junos Kicking it out in Europe, counting all those Euros Directing the scenery, like Robert De Niro I ain't lacking knowledge, so call me knowingly Negus think I sleep, I never sleep Cause when I have my eyes closed I'm always looking through my third eye optical Hammer throw just like a game of Mario Paint the picture in your head, call yourself a young Vincent van Gogh No Mona Lisa, but my life's a motion picture And I thought I could just, kick it with ya [Hook] Life a game, so I'm gambling Any beat like this I'mma manhandle it Throw me the dice, watch me body it just like a fight, just like a fight