[ti:50 Ways]
[ar:DJ Quik]
[al:Under Tha Influence]
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[00:02.35]50 Ways - DJ Quik
[00:09.93]Why you keep givin me cards I can't keep?
[00:11.96]I throw these two back, you throw me two more, they're so cheap
[00:14.34]I couldn't get the winning hand that I wanted in sleepmy
[00:16.79]Cause when the dream get good, I get trampled by sheep
[00:18.79]Nightmares, even when I'm walkin in day
[00:21.10]I'm havin dreams that I'm runnin but there's smoke in the way
[00:23.42]And there's this man in a suit, he take a toke say,and he
[00:25.92]"You have a promise that you made and you broke it today."
[00:28.49]Now which part of this movie here did I just miss?
[00:31.43]Did I really sell my soul to this big red bitch?
[00:33.25]I don't think what you got to offer is really enough
[00:35.24]For cars sex and houses, money and stuff
[00:37.49]I'd rather be broke and own nothin but piece of mind
[00:40.12]and a Benz, and a house, and a nine-deuce-nine
[00:41.87]on top, help me out before I sink the boat
[00:44.31]There's gotta be more than 50 ways to keep afloat
[00:47.31]Cause I feel like I'm suffocatin, I can't breathe
[00:49.18]I wanna go, but I'm too afraid to leave
[00:51.99]Take me with you Mausie, I know you're seein somethin grand
[00:54.24]as you fade away, and you gently release my hand
[00:56.74]And it shook my balance, cause you ain't no more alive
[00:59.43]You think I'd see you, if I chewed this 45?
[01:01.74]Oh I'd be the first person poppin three, droppin me
[01:03.74]to the abyss, but I miss, what's stoppin me?
[01:06.43]I got the pressures of the WORLD on my little back
[01:09.12]My nerves are turnin into jelly and I'm bout to crack
[01:11.40]You think I'm cheatin on my homies, by holdin back?
[01:13.71]No I really protect them all because the truth is wack
[01:16.15]Forever bars and forever scars
[01:17.46]Bein trapped and dyin young makes forever stars
[01:20.15]Tell me why am I so hesitant?
[01:22.33]And the way life's goin, looks like when hell comes, I'ma be a resident
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[01:44.46]They tell me Quik, suck it up, I'm supposed to
[01:46.64]But me and Mausberg was closer than most knew
[01:48.71]It ain't dramatized, and it ain't a fuckin act
[01:51.39]when you're traumatized, and it ain't no turnin back
[01:53.77]When you're so connected, and it's hard to keep your focus
[01:56.21]When you're so affected, and it's hard to love again
[01:58.52]When you're so neglected - suck it up, I'm 'posed to
[02:01.02]That ain't easy for somebody you're close to, shit
[02:02.77]See your homey in a coffin is so wicked and vivid
[02:05.21]It's gon' be harder on all of us, cause we gon' relive it
[02:08.09]Over and over, drunk or sober, from October to October
[02:10.08]I steadily feel like I'm gettin knocked over
[02:12.46]And all the money in the world, don't make it better
[02:15.08]And a whole bottle of alcohol, don't make it wetter
[02:17.46]With a blur and a slur I'm still callin ya name
[02:20.02]And on top of this drama you add fame? Wild
[02:22.40]But when you start to bubble then your friends they spite you
[02:24.71]And if you go to church, then hip-hop won't like you
[02:27.02]I feel like a giant on a worldwide stage
[02:29.08]but at the same time trapped in a real tight cage
[02:31.52]With no way out, I play out, then I come back
[02:33.90]Cause there's an unwritten law that says I can't be wack
[02:36.27]So I put on my game face, go back to the same place
[02:38.89]Only to realize that y'all ain't got the same taste
[02:41.09]Even with somethin new, they look at you cold
[02:43.27]And without a hot face, consider you old
[02:45.52]And leavin me stressed and broken-hearted
[02:46.96]How could I be finished with West coast rap? I helped start it!
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