[HOOK] (There's a place in the zone, my heart You can't deny me, it's strong My inhibitions don't care No one can compare With these scars, these stars In my eyes, you recognize From your fancy cars I am above the bar) No tears on my face Just tryin' to keep my place (I am above the bar) Cause in the end, it's a race Just tryin' to keep pace (I am above the bar) So please, one and all Everyone aboard my spaceship For the simple fact That I don't think this planet makes it In the end, best believe the galaxy arranged it And watch the blue collar go down with the scholar On the same ship, yes, cause of that same sh** Give up and replace it Hands up in the amazement Cause in the end No, I don't think God really cares If after all this, we ain't prepared [VERSE 1] With the way that I proceed Nothin' more to come than I'm a feed Give the game exactly what it need Matter of factly I just stab the game until it wants ta bleed Open the wound And right into the tomb, I plant the seed Call me the plaintiff On my way to statement, how I plead Baby, I'm just so guilty, I guess the flow k**ed me The gutter got no other mind Keepin' out the shutters, so filthy At least not until me Feel me? Me, the hollow tip Watch my hollow one zip And spill onto the pavement While I reign about the clip Ironically, the hottest song We tend to call a hit We plan to take ‘em out and that's exactly what it did And made it by the corner Where the goners' off to live And by the studio We got inside my partner's crib To get away from gettin' locked away inside a bid Without this is a lot, we might've been gone with them instead But instead I hold onto the truth like it's ammo But in this extraordinary world I need no camo I ain't the one to plan Must've been beginning to end I started with goin' hard And now the trauma start to come around again No armor on my pen No guard about my 10 to a 5 Can't see how I revive The dream about us makin' it on stage So we can dive Into a crowd of people Who remember every line From the grave, I can save All my homies who've are tryin' to get paid Put the tallest money in my palm And then I wave Cause you went down And we all learned a law about the trade So without you I would not know ‘bout how this game is played We'll live behind a bar Waitin' for the art to fade It's a f**ed up cave Which we dwell in Cause of our rebellion Cause of it, I melted right into the ventilatin' I have made [HOOK] (There's a place in the zone, my heart You can't deny me, it's strong My inhibitions don't care No one can compare With these scars, these stars In my eyes, you recognize From your fancy cars I am above the bar) No tears on my face Just tryin' to keep my place (I am above the bar) Cause in the end, it's a race Just tryin' to keep pace (I am above the bar) So please, one and all Everyone aboard my spaceship For the simple fact That I don't think this planet makes it In the end, best believe the galaxy arranged it And watch the blue collar go down with the scholar On the same ship, yes, cause of that same sh** Give up and replace it Hands up in the amazement Cause in the end sh**, I don't think God's gonna try (yo) If we're down here livin' a lie [VERSE 2] So what kind of man am I If all I do is try to bird I mean be fly Or rufflin' up the feathers of the ‘erb From on the curb But never mine Never think about ever gettin' my time Except for doin' things that end up With you gettin' time And with nothin' to climb Bet there's plenty on your mind So you face the numbers From the seconds on your hands Yeah, they go around But just end up right where I am Back at noon Or back at none where we began Back with a finger pointed at ‘chu from Uncle Sam From saluta' shoota' out chasin' the Taliban Recruiters who derive that you scooted out the pan Followin' the general, the regular, the average Far away from thinkin' a pumpkin would turn a carriage Wonderin' if you was born for war and not for marriage As a brother's left for dead or somewhere stuck in Paris Find out when you did if it's just cool to kiss ‘em on the terrace Sorry for bein' Bueller; pardon my Ferris But in all fairness, who really knows what fair is Not the strange fool or anyone who might've bared it Feelin' like Barry, this white kinda deep Both on the surface of the skin and on the corner Where it tends to be goin' for cheap Feelin' kinda beat From kickin' this bucket and gettin' crabs up on my feet We just tryin' to eat Avoidin' a defeat But I know this movie, I have seen it on repeat Just another oozie, shoot-em-up, and beat the heat Roll against the leadin' lady livin' happily But ever after Is just an act In real life, there's many other chapters In which they turn the page I mean the corner tryin' to cap ya So bring your laughter, rather live inside a comedy Than a slasher, it's the point of view that matters Saw'd him on a hill Never be the Jack to fall down And lose my crown, I'd rather k** No need to wish a motherf**er what I know he will Ironically, it's gettin' colder, but don't wanna chill Music is the only thing that save a lot of wills Without it, many turn into the won'ts And those shrugs and those don'ts And those doves and the coke and the cuffs And those bids where they claim they Rehabilitatin' us (please) [BRIDGE] The lights go down and the world is cold I am lone again, alone again When the lights get loud and the world unfolds I am home again, am home again [HOOK] (There's a place in the zone, my heart You can't deny me, it's strong My inhibitions don't care No one can compare With these scars, these stars In my eyes, you recognize From your fancy cars I am above the bar) No tears on my face Just tryin' to keep my place (I am above the bar) Cause in the end, it's a race Just tryin' to keep pace (I am above the bar)