Survival Tactics

[Verse 1]
It took me to a place that I couldn't see
It took me to a place that I couldn't reach
Was swinging on the bars and I couldn't breathe
Was fuckin' up my lungs on that nicotine
Something I couldn't keep, I quit it, shit
I might dab in it a little, just to blow it like a whistle
You know, bad habits
I need a care package
I need someone to tell me when I'm doing me damage

[Hook]
Everybody listening, everybody witness it
I made sacrifices
Can I get enlightened?
Everybody listening, can I get a witness?
I made sacrifices
Can I get enlightened?

[Verse 2]
Survival tactics, we had it and never left it
We talked about the paper on days that we barely had it, uh
Asking all these favours, nobody would ever hand it, no
Ripping all these pages and feeling like rap's forsaken us
We eating dust
Right in the back, nobody feeling us
Was really snucks
I got it, reach for my pockets, nothing!
The other option was robbing but never did it
My heart was never wicked
This life how would I live it, if I knew I took a father's pay?
Mama cried the other day
Summertime was on the way
Cold down for my sisters
They wanted to evict us
It was crazy, knowing evictus
I, failed to paint a picture off this shitty life
I'd rather die
I'd rather be a sacrifice and make sure that we living nice
That's why I'm rapping
I'm rapping for the white man
Always take the paper but never can take my mic stand
They can sell my story but never can buy my mind and...

[Hook]
Everybody listening, everybody witness it
I made sacrifices
Can I get enlightened?
Everybody listening, can I get a witness?
I made sacrifices
Can I get enlightened?

[Verse 3]
Survival tactics, we had it and never planned it
All the times that we were hungry, we made a plan and we passed it, uh
Something 'bout the money
When it comes it holds you captive like a...
Crazy lover, you know she gon' plick the rubber
She want, kids
You got your grind on getting bids
On the streets he was a player, she don't know about the bitch
She's still thinking about her family
I wonder why she mad at me
You promised her fantasy
She couldn't see the man
She had to figure out you're fuckin' up her plans
You're the one she's still gon' think about when shit hit on the fan, uh
Survival tactics, she had it and never left it
She talked about her marriage on days that were never lavish, hay', hay'

[Hook]
Everybody listening, everybody witness it
I made sacrifices
Can I get enlightened?
Everybody listening, can I get a witness?
I made sacrifices
Can I get enlightened?