Rock L Spivey - Life's Fabric lyrics

[Verse 1: Cho$en] All I see are lights around me See I'm on the rise they try to ground me Up to my knees like my city, they tried to drown me.. My city's flooded, I swear that my city's flooded Looking down at my shoes and I swear that my soul is mudded Still lost without a path but nearly every path is rugged I lost hold of my seams like a master wielding his puppet I cry tears in a bucket, see if they hate you they gon love it And while the haters talk pedestals I'm surpa**ing every summit Nah hardly, you Steve Harvey, toe to toe with Marcus Garvey A worn pen next to a sharpie plucking feathers out of your body With open eyes, my mind is painted in gold.. The reaper behind me still plotting to take my soul But no, I'll never fold, I'll never cower to grow cold Given the pressure to make diamonds so in my mind I grow coal Still in a shape shift, molding my path to greatness Stuck in the sand of common man I see my craft as an oasis A barren wasteland, around me the walls are caving in I run back and forth, pacing just make sure you tuck your laces in They see crooked smiles and then they try to put the braces in Where we hide the truth but truth is all we embrace is sin... Just face the facts, knowing life's it's been a motion picture But the problem is we get caught inside of the still image... I need way out, blueprint a different layout Felt this weight on mind as my vision begins to grey out Tired of stressing, which one are you? Curse or a lesson Still I begin to count my blessings till the ma**es get the message see As the dust settles, I carry the keys like a piano Though the rocks upon the corners turn our youth into commandos So walk inside my sandals and feel the weight that broke the camel The diamonds left in the gravel the fire that lit the candle The stories we never told, the shoulders left out in the cold The truth our eyes are to behold and the Lamar's of your control.. Give me reason all I can see are smoke and mirrors Hat tricks and illusions, I see you, I never feel ya Just waited to get my time right Caught up in the bright lights steady searching for the limelight Never fold to get your mind right Build to reach the stars or fall like a house of cards For a fence around the yard keeping the shadows from your door What for? Cause what ever happens in this rap sh** I feel like I'm lost in traffic with a bag of these actors laughing To my back, traded my jacks for jokers, the tables turned I'm focused I was born with a hand of hearts, a full house so with this dice I'm rolling I hope my chance is golden Cause when misfortune shuffles your cards you never know what your holding There's two sides to every King two pictures to every scene Grown from the waters we stemmed but still shallow to swim Not enough to stack the chips but I got this chip on my shoulder Playing with the cards I was dealt our problems will never hold us, n***a..