Eye for an Eye

Who can I trust? I can't feel no love

I'm just feeling fucked up, took a L that's tough luck

Rather sell than touch drugs, needed help but none come

To only say I felt numb's an understatement by a tonne

Weighing up my options, feeling like I'm boxed in

Weaving and I'm bobbing while everybody's watching

Failure always knocking, even if we take it into stoppage

I bring something off the bench and get it popping

Weight upon my shoulders that I carried like a man

I grew up in a broken home, my mummy like my dad

All I know is pain, man, I can't fumble on no bag

Listen, even if I love you, do me wrong I do you bad

I burn bridges and I turn tables

I found a way to make it happen when we weren't able

And I thank God 'cause I learned lessons when I weren't grateful

Yeah, I got married to them streets, but I remain faithful

You ever had a blessing in disguise?

I lost friends, I lost money, I done nearly lost my mind

Had me searching everywhere but couldn't seem to find no time

I'm still out here every day, they couldn't keep me off my grind, you know

Sometimes you gotta read between the lines

If you couldn't do the time, you shouldn't entertain the crime

When the blind lead the blind it didn't lead them to no light

I ain't sharing out a slice, I teach you how to bake a pie, let's get it

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will

Remember when they used to tell me that I never will

Man, I done things that I ain't proud of just to pay my bills

And I've seen brothers lose it all while they was chasing girls

For you to change the world you need to change yourself

Before you pray for wealth you need to pray for health

I say my life like a movie and I play myself

I'm still staring up at heaven, I remained in hell

I've always made bad decisions when it came to women

I tried to make her queen bee, but she just left me stingin'

Tell a bitch, "Plenty fishes, you ain't any different"

It's all smoke and mirrors, every hero needs a villain

Shit! I used to be your only fan

Now you selling pussy pics on OnlyFans

Out of everything I taught you, didn't teach you that

Cah your behaviour's mad, I could never take you back

What example am I setting to my daughter if her daddy date a porn star?

Probably think I found you on the corner

Got me feeling like a prick for getting caught up

You can't drown me if my head above the water, I know, let's go

Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, truth in the booth

Unless you're winning, they ain't rooting for you

I say my brain black and blue, looking battered and bruised

But I still got the flame burning while I carry it through

It's who? Big banks

I effortlessly stand out

Get it by myself and I ain't ever took no hand outs

I stand ground, ain't no man gon' make me stand down

Mouths to feed and I ain't tryna let my fam down

Tired and I'm ran down, tryna put some bands down

Stay poor or run these streets like I was Mashtown

Check my background, some shit I couldn't act out

I cannot wait until they let my brother Jack out

Rest in peace, Jermaine, and rest in peace to John McLane

You forever on my brain, I'm lighting up a paper plane

Tryna puff away the strain, no umbrella in this rain

Rest in peace to Black the Ripper, yeah, my brother made a change, you know

The pain running through my veins is hard to explain

Lock me up, but you still can't refrain my brain

I've been sent by God to come and change the game

I want money, fuck the fame, I stay underground like trains (Black The Ripper)

And I still say it with my chest, you're now rocking with best

Until rapping pay a cheque, I still juug and I finesse

Ain't got no time for takin' rest, you think I'm out here to impress?

I wouldn't hold your fucking breath

I ain't nothing like the rest, I been cursed and I been blessed

And now I'm working with what's left, it's time to put it to the test

Time flies, got me feeling like there's hardly any left

Shit! I don't even know what's really coming next

Look, I'm just a product of my environment

Hustle for retirement

Life been getting tiring, I'm nowhere near retirement

You either selling dreams or you buyin' them

Benny, I got demons and I'm fightin' 'em

You make a bed, you'd better lie in it

Be prepared to lay down and die in it

Black lives matter and white people still denyin' it

But the one thing about the truth is we can't hide from it

Without a shadow of a doubt I'm goin' down as a great

Legendary, I'm cementin' my place

They gon' remember my name

Daddy home, I just needed a break

Now it's time to put some food on the plate

I think it's time that we ate

Know that music is my only escape