Bavu Blakes - Only Your Life lyrics

(chorus x2) Life's dilemmas shake you up like the tremors from earthquakes But remember do have faith don't forget what's at stake Only your life Tough decisions we gotta make Coltrane bought a cold drink Dr. Pepper I think but I really don't remember Sat on the sofa watchin' Soul Train Some singer was on looking like both genders Speakin' of which, when Coltrane used c**aine He would switch some of the time Let grown men run in his behind Anyway watchin' Tv at mama's house Everything's fine So ol' boy reclined but later on He tried to reach over the table and change the channel When he saw a picture that pissed him off His Uncle Ty who made him soft grinnin' on the mantle Damn hard to handle smashed it for the fourth time in ten years As he fought back tears Threw back beers and shots at the bar Hopped in the car, k**ed all of the fear By leavin' here His father had his own issues, torment too Thus the name, different thangs, but the same One chose to bust his brain, other drove away Their women remain in pain (chorus) Uncle Ty was a cool guy You know, besides the way he treated trane, his nephew Man, I was outta that, that's them Met him back in the war, one of them cats that never left you Stepped through all kinds of foreign lands Cannons in hand, got back and got jack to show for it Hot as hell hidin' in the forest Supposed to be heroes they damn near ignore us Pour us drinks though it's hard to pay, for 'em Dirty uniform, slurrin' on the payphone My wife goin' on and on, Ty laughed Said a soulmate sho' ain't somethin' I'ma have I hit the ave caught a cab as coltrane Pulled up to pick up his unc, lookin' kinda mad Said he had a little booze at the lily pad Across the street so I nodded off to sleep to sweet thoughts And I thought, all was cool, til' I woke Up and heard, they fell off, in the street Coltrane swerved, and I ask Did Ty get what he deserved (chorus)