[Hook:]
Head down - Got me going Insane/
TEARS in My EYES - They're Ignoring the PAIN/
Standing Outside - In this Pouring Rain/
The LOVE I Provide - They don't Show me the Same/
So my - Head down - Got me going Insane/
Know I keep it SOLID - I be Showing My Shame/
My Own Fam Don't Give a Damn - They Don't Owe me a Thang/
But How I Really Spose to Shine? - When They Ain't Knowing My Name!/..The Flame...
[1st verse:]
Back up in the Chamber - Took a While to Visit/
Coming at you LIVE - Cause my Style so Vivid/
Chasing After Dreams - Running Miles to get it/
If You Can't Support Me?! -"Don't even Dial my Digits"/
Broke the Cycle! - Can't Believe - YOU Forced Your Child to Live it?! --
Thats Directed to My Father - But Why even Bother?/
Life is Getting Shorter - Not to Mention - That it's Harder --
Thats why I'm Making TIME - for My Son and My Daughters/
(Taking Trips out of Georgia) --sh** been out of Order -
And its Darker than its Ever been/
Rhyming Sk**s with the PEN - Its on Level Ten -
Then - They Say "My Time Coming" - Can You Tell Me When?/
With Precision - Cause the Vision Start to Fade -
My Conscious Getting Harder to Persuade/
"They" Really Going Hard - With the Shade -
Trying to Tell Myself - I Ain't Doing This in Vain/
Don't know How Many More Years - I Can Give to this Game!?/...Dang...
{But I Still be in the Lab - Hoping I can Find Another way/
(I can find Another way) So Many Hours Pa**ed --
Recording All these Tracks - I Don't Know the Time of Day/
(I don't know the time of day) - They say you Gotta Hustle --
Get ya Bread up - Look at All these Years - Man a n***a Getting Fed up/
Thinking bout Quitting - But Still I Won't Let up - I Know that PAC -
Would Tell Me - Keep My Head Up/...But My...}
[Hook:]
Head down - Got me going Insane/
TEARS in My EYES - They're Ignoring the PAIN/
Standing Outside - In this Pouring Rain/
The LOVE I Provide - They don't Show me the Same/
So my - Head down - Got me going Insane/
Know I keep it SOLID - I be Showing My Shame/
My Own Fam Don't Give a Damn - They Don't Owe me a Thang/
But How I Really Spose to Shine? - When They Ain't Knowing My Name!/..The Flame...
[2nd Verse:]
See I've Been Rapping All These Years - Acting like These Tears -
Don't be Dropping on These Sheets/
Know I got Sk**s - How I'm Dropping All this HEAT -
I Vowed to Keep it Real - When I'm Hopping on These Beats/
(I'm obviously a BEAST) - "Sheesh" --
I wanna Piece of the Pie - But it's STILL in the Oven/
Knew I was a Vet - But Yet - [They're] Saying That I Wasn't?!/
Raised in the Hood - Where They - Really with the Thugging & Drugging/
(Takin Pills by the Dozen) -- Surrounded by them Fiends -
That be Scheming on the Block/
If You're Seen on the Scene by the Cops -
[They'll] be Bringing - All Ya Dreams To a Stop/
Despite How it Seems - Everythang Moving slow - Like Drinking Lean on the Rocks/
Never Seen What I Stock? - If You Check My Inventory!/
You Would See the True Events - Based in My Story/
Never Getting the Glory I Deserve - Every Verse I done Written/
Its like "This sh** HERE" - is FORBIDDEN/...Damn...
{But I Still be in the Lab - Hoping I can Find Another way/
(I can find Another way) So Many Hours Pa**ed --
Recording All these Tracks - I Don't Know the Time of Day/
(I don't know the time of day) - They say you Gotta Hustle --
Get ya Bread up - Look at All these Years - Man a n***a Getting Fed up/
Thinking bout Quitting - But Still I Won't Let up - I Know that PAC -
Would Tell Me - Keep My Head Up/...But My...}
[Hook:]
Head down - Got me going Insane/
TEARS in My EYES - They're Ignoring the PAIN/
Standing Outside - In this Pouring Rain/
The LOVE I Provide - They don't Show me the Same/
So my - Head down - Got me going Insane/
Know I keep it SOLID - I be Showing My Shame/
My Own Fam Don't Give a Damn - They Don't Owe me a Thang/
But How I Really Spose to Shine? - When They Ain't Knowing My Name!/..The Flame...
Goes off:
[Audio] (Dixon speaks:) on Oppression thats stemmed from White Supremacy...