Always Us

[Intro] Duh-duh-duh-duh, duh-duh-duh-duh-duh Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh [Chorus: Nana & Kota the Friend] Sometimes you, sometimes me Always us Yeah [Verse 1: Nana] I was born skin, I was dark as a [?] Running from reality, I ripped up my cartilage Hoping one day we wasn't out flocking apartments What's a risk to reward if I'm scaling a margin I would say we were more misguided than heartless You reap what you sow, so niggas are what they harvest Graduated, got a job, warehouse out in Carson Thinking one day I'll go legal, maybe an artist I wonder what offers I can garner at minimum I should follow my gut instincts but it feels like an enema See an enemy, the lord's [?] With no direction, shooting everything, turn the hood to a cinema If the feds knocking at the door, there probably was ten of 'em With K9s and a single file to [?] I'm up Somewhere in the mansion is [?] a senator A sentence was definitive with no-one defending us [Chorus: Nana & Kota the Friend] Sometimes you, sometimes me But it's always us Sometimes wrong, sometimes right It was always up Sometimes you, sometimes me But it's always us Sometimes wrong, sometimes right It was always up Always [Verse 2: Kota the Friend] 9/11, never forget Everything you treasure could be lost in a wreck And when them planes crash, and you freezing up like the game lag Everything you love, done, gone in a sec So who are you now Is it politics as usual now Is life just as beautiful now Since the misery ain't something that is new to you now I bet the struggle of another person moving you now, and so Got a whistle while you work Know a couple niggas that'll grab a pistol, go berserk Not a lot of hope but we always on a surge Heard the pastor got a Benz sitting right outside the church And that nigga done plotting Once he see the dollar signs, know he not stopping Keisha hit his line, 'cause she tryna get him lined Couldn't say it's not toxic It's hard to choose better when you've barely got options [Chorus: Nana & Kota the Friend] Sometimes you, sometimes me But it's always us Sometimes wrong, sometimes right It was always up Sometimes you, sometimes me But it's always us Sometimes wrong, sometimes right It was always up Always