Carry On, Just Existing

Part 1 [Carry on]

[Verse 1]

This is for my brothers, waiting on the first, wallets hurt
Feeling worthless cause all your dollars is spent
Reaching in ya pockets, eye falling out ya sockets
Showing hoover flags, mad all you got is some lint
You need a way to vent, debt stacked, bills backed up
Ya girl packed up, now ya tryna get bent
Living in the hood, robberies sounding good
You might have kids, cause sex may relieve the stress
You feeling vexed, but never step out, without your vest
Cause the tech'll wreck your brain, put your frame to the test
So now you move weight, lawyers won't look you in the face
May be heading upstate, you want an escape
I can relate, we need a break

[Hook]

Is that anyway, for a man to carry on?
When I wasn't making much money x2

[Verse 2]

The rich'll burst our bubble, they don't understand the struggle
All ya family members huddled, we survivors in this jungle
Rats drinking from puddles, niggas scuttle, face stubbled
Ashy knuckles, looking like they slept under some rubble
Living life, don't care about the wrong or the right
We coping white, standing guard while ya wife sleep at night
No goons under this moon, only Buffalo soldiers
Who wanna be stock holders, schools got us filling quotas
Wallstreet employees on the edge of they seat
We want change, let em hear the clamor of our angry feet
Presidential speech cause he feeling the heat
It's evident, the residents want this nigga impeached
But we stay distracted, we all zombies in the system
Older folks hate us cause they think we don't hear they wisdom
But it's hard to listen, when I'm stuck in the grind
Wish I had some older heads here to keep me inline

[Hook]

[Scratched Outro]

Part 2 [Just Existing]

[Intro]

Yo this beat in my chest, got God breaking his neck, that's word..

[Verse 1]

Yo I, dine with peasants and I walk with kings, I notice things
A bit more perceptive than most, my actions, no matter how small
Effected the flow, the cycle of life, I found a bird who lost its flight
Stayed and protected it from felines in sight, thought I did a good thing
Until the next night, the starving cat killed over and that bird still died
Now I understood those sad eyes, gazing with contempt
All his energy spent, almost asking me why
Now quantum leap into to this stronghold, where the strong survive
Where deprived brothers, who stay empty inside
Serve work to walking dead fiends, just to get by
And those boys with those sirenes, come rolling by
Arrest them both, and now you just gave rise
To a guy who's a bit more violent, a bit more hungry
He killed for that old nigga spot, now shit is hot
Making a, harder life for us in the city
While he ride to his suburbs with his wife that's pretty
And his good kids, a nice nuclear family
Engineered by splitting our atoms, damn I can't fathom

[Hook]

Cause they still building bombs, still building more prisons
Swear life as it is ain't living, just existing
And they still building bombs, still building more prisons
Swear life as it is ain't living, just existing
And they still building bombs, still building more prisons
Swear life as it is ain't living, just existing
And they still building bombs, still building more prisons
Swear life as it is ain't living, just existing

[Verse 2]

Inhale the silence then I listen
My mission from surviving to thriving, when I fill the composition
My competition wishing things are different, most of them no longer living
Survival is a nasty business, killers awaiting the arrival of a key witness
Slugs rip the car door now the case dismissed
Judges with grudges being blackmailed by the government
Got smudges on his own past, still he throw that book fast
That prostitute he strangled got my nigga iron bangles
We dig a little deeper we can see how far his shame goes
Prisons on stock markets, my generation is cattle
We are to TV like a hungry baby to a rattle
Some niggas babble, with me, it's slang that's spoken
But there's a difference between Ebonics and English that's broken
Some new emcees got me hoping, if the beast should eat me
I pray to god y'all don't start choking

[Hook]

Cause they still building bombs, still building more prisons
Swear life as it is ain't living, just existing
And they still building bombs, still building more prisons
Swear life as it is ain't living, just existing
And they still building bombs, still building more prisons
Swear life as it is ain't living, just existing
And they still building bombs, still building more prisons
Swear life as it is ain't living, just existing

Just existing...
We just existing...
Goddamn just existing.....