Tarnished

[Verse 1 (Muffled)] Adapt to daylight that breaks over roofs on horizon Split chest to concrete to clear sinus Letters curve like true writers Respect due to Phase 2 Bombs grew from angst of knuckled fighters The ones who fell in urban combat The ones who never cared to adapt The ones in life who always felt trapped The ones who made a real impact The ones who molded exactly where these thought sat Verses amplified acoustically through wires Makes perfect sense in mind with liquored virus It all makes sense when mind's on liquored virus Traveled under soil with Osiris Birth and death of modern world on the Tigris Why fight this? Okt, nigga, why you even mic this? Most the rest of world don't even like us Ink flow from pen to raw papyrus Twelve straight hours doing work ain't even tired Tried and hung from sycamore Cause I attempt to play Picasso for the poor No one wants to hear this lion's roar No one wants to hear a lion's roar Attempts on life are insured With truths I spit on tours Bourgie motherfuckers expect us on all fours Use brute force when I need to underscore The perfect paragraph always hit block raw Hits, blocks, raw [Chorus] Endure the everyday, remain tarnished Truth is all tarnished Corner stoops is all tarnished Even when it's strength we try to harness My mental stay tarnished The way we act on streets is all tarnished Even when we meek we still tarnished All the words we speak is mad tarnished The core of man tarnished [Verse 2 (Muffled)] They say at best we tamed savage This train of thought kept collective souls all ravished Raised a weary fist to catch my breath above the gutter Gave away our hope and dignity as not to smother We still suffer! Tragedy at times results in stutter Stability off-kilter Resist within oppression The struggle is our weapon Perhaps this is the blessing Existence as the lesson Ink flow from pen to raw papyrus Twelve straight hours doing work ain't even tired Tried and hung from sycamore Cause I attempt to play Picasso for the poor No one wants to hear this lion's roar No one wants to hear a lion's roar Attempts on life are insured With truths I spit on tours Bourgie muthafukas expect us on all fours No need to mention where we is or where we at Instead I reminisce on all my peoples that we lost, black The ones who molded exactly where these thought sat The ones who taught me how to act The ones who fell in urban combat The ones who never cared to adapt The ones in life who always felt trapped The ones who made a real impact The ones who had the qualities your average man lacks Commit their memories to wax In fact, commit their very tarnished essence to the core of this track [Chorus] Endure the everyday, remain tarnished Truth is all tarnished Corner stoops is all tarnished Even when it's strength we try to harness My mental stay tarnished The way we act on streets is all tarnished Even when we meek we still tarnished All the words we speak is mad tarnished The core of man tarnished Endure the everyday, remain tarnished Truth is all tarnished Corner stoops is all tarnished Even when it's strength we try to harness My mental stay tarnished The way we act on streets is all tarnished Even when we meek we still tarnished All the words we speak is mad tarnished The core of man tarnished