Take A Listen (Lyrics Copyrighted)

R.A.W. "Take A Listen" (Lyrics Copyrighted)

[Hook: R.A.W.]
I was scrappin' for 10 cent when ya'll was pullin' dimes
And my only option to eat was pullin' nines
I learned you gotta stay strong through the bad times
Everyone’s gotta story so take a listen to mines
Take a listen, to how my only hope was being hopeless
Dreamed of being the dopest, woke up being the brokest
Take a listen, to how my life was shattered
All alone in this world thinkin' I didn’t matter, Take a Listen

[Verse 1: R.A.W.]
To how being a part of life’s roller coaster ride
Made me excited when I got to close my open eyes
To get away from all the pain and visit hopes inside
Fantasies, then they disappeared when I awoke to cries
Cause I hit the lowest of lows with no doe to get clothes
Plus my friends turn to foes when I’m ghost
Had a rose that chose to make me the coldest of souls
So without takin' out braids I got froze (fro’s) from the rose (rows)
Now there’s ice in my veins from the trife and the pain
Invitin' the flames by hangin' wit guys who remain
Thinkin' getting high's a game but bibles explain
A man’s born able (Abel) to end up dying from caine (Kane)
My life was insane, all my memories explicitly
Highlight the crime life that destiny presented me
Not boastin, I’m just chosen to affectively deliver these
Testaments of how life was stressin' me mentally

[Hook: R.A.W.]
I was scrappin' for 10 cent, when ya'll was pullin' dimes
And my only option to eat was pullin' nines
I learned you gotta stay strong through the bad times
Everyone’s gotta story so take a listen to mines
Take a listen, to how my only hope was being hopeless
Dreamed of being the dopest, woke up being the brokest
Take a listen, to how my life was shattered
All alone in this world thinkin' I didn’t matter, Take a Listen

[Verse 2: R.A.W.]
To how I spent nights as a youth, allignin' the troops
Doin' crimes that was used for bites of some food
Life was a bitch whose vagina was loose
So I guessed she’d never help me tighten my screws
That was loosened from using rage as a weapon
You could tell by my facial expression or the way I was steppin'
The way I was headin'
Woulda had me dread the future (Future) like a mile greater than 7
Wit that being said, change was needed
So no Novocain was needed to have pains defeated
I express pain that’s been around since ancient teachings
Cause the games the same, just different names is needed
To show theirs way to be placed in a fortress
Away from hatin' that Satan enforces
Cause when my pain was enormous
Hair’s (Hare’s) took a loss fast without racin' a tortoise

[Hook: R.A.W.] x2
I was scrappin' for 10 cent, when ya'll was pullin' dimes
And my only option to eat was pullin' nines
I learned you gotta stay strong through the bad times
Everyone’s gotta story so take a listen to mines
Take a listen, to how my only hope was being hopeless
Dreamed of being the dopest, woke up being the brokest
Take a listen, to how my life was shattered
All alone in this world thinkin' I didn’t matter, Take a Listen