Salloum - The Last Stand lyrics

Only then way before he'd begin Would gray hairs float on back up To stick atop his head again He'd sit and wonder on the seats Where he'd walk and ponder each week In the park and on the streets, preying on the weak Committing crimes latched on his grind Accompanied with signs of hard times Healed by the icing on his wrist He lived the vice life til he found his fix Making way for his prime filled with bliss He heard the sound of bullets streaming out of Glocks Held by robbers dropping sprees On shoppers begging on their knees Desperately handing over keys, leather pads Begging please in mercy pleas Back when it was bad His end soon began an epic to begin Steered by fear, made of dare Bared unfair in a world lacking love and care Shared in nightmare tales Sticking up hairs with his deadly scare They said a change is going to come Put the face of a man once known to a game so young The game changed as the change came Cummed on the sums Billions got played Bills got paid Bill got laid cause Bill helped the game And from the same gust came a man Who changed the game for the plus A warrior stellar-type storyteller Embarked on teachings of the most high So I bow to the most high, mos def In my past I existed as a champ Suicided by a martyr facing k**er drones Youth bones ricocheted Never seen it but I heard about it Turned me grim Looking to the world from without When the answers were within Dumping all to slow my climb Progressive thoughts to build a character divine Through a spirit experience worth a mil Toward a purpose infinitely instilled Clear signs comprehensible to men of clear minds Immortal yearnings turned imperils to greatness Through a wisdom of the ages By a teaching of the sages Divine intelligence gained through a flipping of the pages It takes ages to attain this wisdom bliss I wonder why the world crucifies the best of the best Crooked visions to scheme and knock you off your mission In the end of the age of the innocence I'm left guessing ways best to progress How it'd be if they knew who I'd be Girls given love paved lanes for mistrust Not a hustler of the d** Nor a kingpin of slums But a fan of the one's and two's til infinity I spit a punch of rhymes off of what I sign As the paving of a lane by a brain Surfing waves, knocking game revealing fate to give me fame A way to flow like the H2O Til debt do us part I'm speaking from the heart A young quarter century Spitting rhymes envisioning dreams A lyrical heavy weight Raps set to tell it straight One of the greats Without albums out or records sold Nothing compares to this soul that flows Like the Nile with a roar of a jungle tiger Made of mud Birthed opposite the sun Spitting hot fire An immortal technique telekinetic in reach Thoughts distant so I bring you en route my kingdom The young sun drowning out crowds Trying to drive me down the road I was driving down once before Through my choice to explore Hated it at first, loved it at last Alas came full circle with the math Spitting life through rhymes A vivid mind rapping sorrowness from real pain Flipping pains to gains Night to light Yin-yang's authored right Pieced to the puzzle Emceed to shed light Salloum The young thrilla on the Mic