Substantial - Ain't No Happy Endings lyrics

[HOOK] There ain't no happy endings, cause nothing really ends When your life is over, another begins And that's the way it works in the circle of life Balancing those good days with the times of strife There ain't no happy endings, cause nothing really ends When this life is over, another begins And that's the way it works in the circle of life Balancing these good days in these times of strife [VERSE 1: Substantial] I'm just trying to make it Life's precious for granted I'll never take it Every breath I breathe to me is sacred Back when I was young, my only love was football and my mama Learn to use curse words before I ever used a comma Little bad a** All I liked in school was gym and art cla** Life's changin', I was age ten when my pop pa**ed His love for cancer sticks and alcohol prove to be tragic My fam's seen it all we became immune to havoc My lyrics is satisfaction to those who use to be addicts Soothin' the beast within all those who use to be savage I advocate the acronym F.U.B.U. speak to As if my tongue was tatooed with the word uhuru Using my freestyle to emancipate mind states f** 21, I'd like to live to see 9-8 But this world's got me going bananas like a primate People you thought you knew full of surprises like a blind date And I hate Cash flashing n***as with a pa**ion More to life than dollars and rockin' the latest fashion Seems like we either wanna play ball or be a**a**ins While children go to bed to lullabies of guns blastin' No matter the weather I'm striving to make it better But my motto is a contradiction "Never say never!" I will not I remain poetic like Gil Scott So stand up, get up My people keep your head up! [BRIDGE] And live everyday like it's your last Cause life only get harder as time goes past And yo, the sun might not come out tomorrow Don't let your life end in sorrow That's why you live everyday like it's your last Cause life only get harder as time go past And yo, the sun might not come out tomorrow Don't let your life end in sorrow -HOOK- [VERSE 2: Substantial] I try to live day by day without a fear or a worry It's no time to waste I make moves in a hurry Used to be so clear now my vision's getting blurry Streets is hotter than Tabasco sauce on chicken curry Bullets fly from guns with no target in particular Fatally hittin' ya Leavin' bodies perpendicular To those still existin' Silencers hissin' Piercin' the darkness Bringin' forth another carca** Total bedlam, swear these streets is infested Filled with the many horrors that the devil manifested Children molested Nuclear weapons being tested Somehow I avoided being shot or arrested Brothers tried to bring it to me Send slugs through me Almost was bodied thrice back when I was just a juvy Hard to deal thought about putting one in my own temple Permanent scars on my physical and my mental Sometimes I'm glad my niece is no longer around to see this Not a trace of unity society's in pieces Liquor spattered on concrete to mourn those that we miss Watch day and night, controlled by unseen leashes Watch day and night, controlled by unseen leashes Watch day and night, controlled by unseen leashes Yo, but no matter what... You know something? This is what you gotta do... -BRIDGE- -HOOK-