14 2 Life

[Intro]
Wut's good in the hood yo
This ur man K-Drama from Cin-city
Bout to give y'all what I call 14 2 Life: iLLustrations of self
This is me, this is my mind, this is my story
This is my testimony, this is my tests and trails
My tribulations, this is what I feel
My heart, my ups and downs, my joys and pains
Just feel me y'all

[Verse 1]
I was formed in my mother's womb in '84
Released from her birth canal
I didn't travel down the river
I traveled down the worst canal
8/28/84 at 8:04 a king was born
Although the crown was not yet worn
My destiny was never torn
After parturition my dad didn't carefully listen
Whispered in the nurse ear, and I was marked Anthony
First name should be Regis, part untold calamity
Years later .. for conduct close to insanity
Ms. Luck said I was to premature for first grade
I saw too much drama to be almost in the first grade
Faced with adversity, used to people hurting me
I came in contact with all mankind
But felt the world was deserting me
(So I sold my soul to the devil for some attention
Suffered a spiritual lynchin resultin' in detentions and suspensions)
Which led to expulsion, a life full of exhaustion
My light was exhausting due to the price it was costing
I was sick of living in bondage, walking with a slump back
Lacked happiness so I pursued in ignorance
Vain pleasure, resulting in emptiness
A true purpose and calling is what I truly missed
But an untimely death put my timely life in perspective
So I selected the already Elected, never regretted it
And although I hated Him, His love never changed
In fact I walk in denial, due to suspecting this is too strange
It is strange, that's what separates Him from man
The fabrication of His love is to complex for us to understand
So I just walk in it, practice to talk in it
It's my turn to learn and earn, let the fire burn, I must discern

[Bridge]
You know after I got saved
I came to a lot of realizations in life
Just due to the fact that I was blind
And I couldn't see things the way I see 'em now back there
But now I want y'all to see the way I see, c'mon

[Verse 2]
I thought life now, would be peaches n cream
I don't know why I thought that, it's just how it seemed
But reality slapped me in the face when I was still strugglin'
And flesh and spirits, game of tug of war, they still tuggalin'
Aw man wasn't aware of all the requirements
But this is the only job that is truly hiring
So I stuck with it, quit listenin' to secular music
Because heresies are truly not therapeutic
My church took a road trip, travelled to the pen
I didn't know I was set up to not be the same again
I asked God to change me, airway to my name
He exposed rhythm and poetry and put me in the game
And the blood, sweat and tears were worth it in these five years
Cuz now I'm stronger than ever and I can persuade my peers
To kill the old and walk in newness
Instead of listening to the DJ that's clueless
(I ain't done, are you done, you ain't done all I did
But I can relate to you because we both have to live
I write bars to dudes behind bars for new strength
I write epistles to Catholics to ask, Who are u worshiping?)
This right here is what I call 14 2 Life: iLLustrations of self
Through the music I write
I'm serving a life sentence, one of many lights
Be ye followers of me even as I also follow Christ