Vokab - Water From The Tap lyrics

[Verse 1] Would you believe when I got my first piece of heat It was to squeeze on my own dome, and be at peace Finally, my release, my escape from these streets The pressures at home, due to school blowing up the phone I was, always alone, I'm staring at this chrome Silence the tremors in my hand, damn I had a plan Why can't I, follow through with the cowards way out All the pain in the world would be gone, that's no doubt Maybe it was, the rebel inside, that said f** the world b Yo, ayo you gotta stay alive, maybe I was a bit crazy Like my aunt when she lived in her car We survived, due to the pride, that griped us hard Some nights I felt like I would starve Locked out the house I slept sitting up against a wall Underneath the stars, I walked stepping in footholes in the snow Froze from my clothes to my chromosomes writing poems [Hook] Cause that same pride barred me from asking for help I gotta build my own wealth, had to do for myself No more mom struggling, or hiding money from the government f** water from the tap, that's the reason I rap For so long, I been a black rat trapped Broke my new age shackles, Nat Turner is back With a burner to yo back, my n***as on the attack Hybrid Noise boys poised to make short work of the whack [Verse 2] They won't know my presence felt, til the damage is dealt The soldiers who knelt, the finest, daggers I smelt In hells kitchen, scraping devil's pie from these dishes My wish is, these evils that I'm spitting Will have me living just, with a woman I can trust A dutch in my clutch, far from semi's that bust Or crazy n***as in cuffs, screaming he seeing demons after smoking some dust Some say I'm too damn young, to see so much But I'm slowly going blind so I appreciate it all The good and the bad, this is my rise and my fall I was, running with rhymes before I was able to crawl Maybe I was fated to share my journey with y'all Over these snares, bleeding hearts prepare, this world ain't fair If you look into my eye's you'll find, a portal to my mind Where this proof resides, no fiction in my diction It's for truth I ride, let that doubt subside [Hook] Cause that same pride barred me from asking for help I gotta build my own wealth, had to do for myself No more mom struggling, or hiding money from the government f** water from the tap, that's the reason I rap For so long, I been a black rat trapped Broke my new age shackles, Nat Turner is back With a burner to yo back, my n***as on the attack Hybrid Noise boys poised to make short work of the whack [Verse 3] Wish I had a silver spoon when I was torn from the womb Mom said, "gotta conform if you wanna eat food" But that's surviving, f** surviving, I wanna be thriving That's why I started writing, that's why I started rhyming Buddha igniting got me feeling enlightened Lightning, striking my temple Minds tremble when I pilot this pencil, but they won't give me a lane Either a Roscoe to your brain, or I'm rocking a stage Either it's writing on a page, or eulogies recited at a Unmarked grave, usually I'm well behaved But notoriety in my society, got police eyeing me No one siding with me, b**hes lying to me Never riding clean, rarely sober No toaster in the holster but a hawk'll poke holes through Ya clothes brah, flow colder, than that storm that caught is October I hold a microphone until the f**ing shows over [Hook] Cause that same pride barred me from asking for help I gotta build my own wealth, had to do for myself No more mom struggling, or hiding money from the government f** water from the tap, that's the reason I rap For so long, I been a black rat trapped Broke my new age shackles, Nat Turner is back With a burner to yo back, my n***as on the attack Hybrid Noise boys poised to make short work of the whack I'm mean that