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