The Era

This for the ones that was broke when the stock market choked
Life never looked so bad lost everything we had
Even the pad
Leavin' us so sad
It took a high dropout to make the lot out
Take a loan out
Manifest Destiny two, the government stealing the house
A dream began, it's the NBA
Never Broke Again
Never caught by police if I stole again
Never tried to be black, just away from crack, making a slap
But I was too young to remember, way late December
Chapter 12s, financial closures
Collage dreams bogus, 31 degrees and the blankets barely hold us
Mom and pops working 7-9 at night
What kind of sights out remain
Blood stains, ashes, and variable pain, and terrible things down the road
I hope that little girl is showed better
Than fists to the face
Not my place, not even my chase
We barely making a living
So close to death but at least death kills you
And doesn't drag you out under bridges

This is The Era

I'll take you back 2-0-1-3
How it really be
Middle school me, when I was
MC Charlie Gee, with the two E's
Life wasn't a breeze getting to school by the bus
From another town
It's 5 AM, and shit's going down
Talking under the weather
Drenched I'm wet, some kids ya bet, 41 degrees I won't forget
Dragged my ass to school, shivering and shit
Came home, followed by strangers
Disappearing again
I never ment to be broke, my life's on a slope
Introduced to jo' for the third time
Where's my bike to travel 7 miles
Someone stole mine
This a 'fuck you' for teasing the struggle
Now these thoughts bubbled
And I was more than troubled
Stress had doubled, lost in the rubble
Had to find myself, I wish I never had minded help
Instead of fears
Too grown to shed tears
Too gone to be here
Too long before gone
Running and Running, from something a lost part of me
Turned to music like can J Dilla still pardon me?
Call me white Dr. Dre, yeah he great and rich
Yeah he hit the switch
But I want to be the way out The Era
(struggle)
Yeah, the next out the ghetto

This is The Era

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The Era, The Era, The Era
The Era, The Era, The Era
The Era, The Era, The Era
The Era, The Era, The Era
The Era, The Era, The Era
The Era, The Era, The Era)

[2-3-3-5 Intro:]
Not people anymore, it's beyond that but however
We're more and more influenced easier
Maybe I should be like my idols
Call myself a god, myself a king
Maybe I should tell the kids to be different
And look in the mirror in horror at the person and tell them
Not to love themselves
Maybe i Should die
But if I do die what would you take from mine?

Part II:

Turn your fuckin' volume up
I said, turn your fuckin volume up
Sip, from the motherfucking cups of gods
Call that a premature baptism
The devil put my friends in the ground
He tryna put me with them
Everyday, I step cautiously
Still inside the hands of monopoly
I think about death oftenly
So I try to do these things properly
Give all glory to god and say fuck politicking
This is tape number 6 start giving it all I got
Shit's so distraught
Look at all theses females that I brought
Have a piece of cake
Then we go home have ourselves a pie
Cause this my era
Reigning down call that anti-terror
So this you can't touch
Only masters and inventors seek the truth
Exalt the youth to be free of mental imprisonment
Resisting trick, bind togeather
I'm lost in the woods, you'll find me never
Call me maybe or call me crazy
Cause this my Era

[Verse]
I just feel so lonesome
I just need to grow some
I'm a meal, your throat numb
I appeal to no-one
I'm too real for your son
I don't feel for the gun
Hate to steal from a nun
These baddies can't get some
Don't get mad at me for this one
Two years ago, we're uptown
1 AM I'm up now
She came to me and said we need to go down
Friday night do you clown
I said 'I ain't never pounded-'
WOO
I'm not crazy
Last night I had dream
More like a nightmare
I woke feeling scared
I wasn't really prepared
God spoke to me of my past
They say mistakes won't be my last
I had been to hard to think
I feel in love, was in sync
Titantic shit, and my shit sank
Mind was confused and suicide induced again
Last night
Spiked my Arizona
Put myself in a coma
Woke up in Barcelona
Took your girl cause I flown her
She a good girl but the streets own her
I wish I could've told her
How I want to hold her
She too busy smoking marijuana
She gone away from the heart
Lives like that tear me apart
Drive down to texas
Inside of A lexis
Fucked with your tetris
Shaming me cause now you won't bet this