Brother Ali - The Puzzle lyrics
Who's to blame for the state I'm in I play my cards but somehow I can't win [Verse 1:] Listen when life leaves you beaten up Don't lay around in it, hurry pick them pieces up Cling closely to the people you love They're your umbrella when the weathers tough See to it that your head is up If not just remember this Just never let your chest and your chin touch in public Those that stand against us would love this Man f** them, something's bugging em' They feel inadequate or something and that's been dug in em' So deep they can't stand someone else making sh** Player hatred, same concept created Satan Play em, no never mind let em play their part They're here to make us prove we are what we say we are We say we are the hard hearted Been discarded from everything we've ever been part of They just robbed it Unguarded, tormented and tortured And got nothing but scars and grey hairs to show for it f** that, every stone that's ever been cast or blow that ever landed Helped to build that man that's standing before your b**h a** And back to wreak havoc and never retired, retreated or recanted I, don't expect you to have stood where I'm standing Why, repsect is the only thing I'm demanding Try, you and I could build this understanding You can't honestly shake unless you know where my hand's been brother [Chorus:] This is a piece of my puzzle now Through the years I found peace in my struggle now If we were put here to carry a great weight The very things we hate are here to build those muscles This is a piece of my puzzle now Through the years I found peace in my struggle now (Whose to blame for the state I'm in - Yours truly I play my cards but somehow I can't win) [Verse 2:] Listen I was taught that mistakes made with great intentions Were never sins but where life lessons begin Now that I'm 27, single father starting over yet again I am who I have to forgive Lost my mumma to cancer, closed a 10 year chapter shortly after Can't deny that was some sh** Alone in this life would've been at my throat with a knife chop Were it not for my pa**ion to live Follow my soul, not that I don't know the penalty But that's the legacy that I pa** to my kids Heard of shining in the heat of the moment And won my freedom the moment I realised that's what this... [Chorus] [Bridge: x2] I can't believe my eyes Lord I don't know what I'm seeing I done watched them smash into little pieces everything I've been building I can't believe my ears Lord I don't know what I'm hearing I heard they smash into little pieces everything I've been building Whose to blame for the state I'm in I play my cards but somehow I can't win