Apple Tree Me

[Verse: Brother Ali] Apple tree me They throw rocks, I throw 'em apples back If you're ruffling my people's leaves I guarantee that I'ma stab yo ass I say it once so you can leave Then we're both gonna have to choose You wake up in emergency, I wake up in the custody We both'll wake up on the news I'm always on my post til they release me To do the least or the most, whatever need be Can't decrease me or DB[?] even briefly A champion, stand as a chief until we breathe free They either honor me or shower me with cruelty Neither one has anything to do with me But if you do judge, do it according To the reality that this is me while being tortured I often think of myself as lost, and Only thing for certain is a curtain and a coffin Learned my first song from my mama then I watched 'em Zip her face up in the bag and drag her off and I'm not being dramatic, I'm just playing back the highlights Things I remember more vivid than my eyesight Forgive me, give me just a minute get my mind right Don't expect me spit 'em in a straight line, man [Outro: C. S. Armstrong] I ain't scared, I ain't scared no more Done seen the worst of the worst I ain't scared, I ain't scared no more Gonna have to kill me first The bottom so real, when you move away it don't mean I forgot I ain't scared, I ain't scared