Can't Shake It

[Intro: Tech N9ne]

Another piece that I wrote, about me

Being stuck in my ways, yeah

[Chorus: Krizz Kaliko]

And I can't give up what I'm in love with

I guess I'm a mess and I just can't shake it

(I just can't change what I am)

[Bridge: Krizz Kaliko]

What did I do to be so wrong?

Could I be so different?

Is there a remedy?

Will you be forgivin' me?

'Cause this ain't my life

Or the way it was supposed to be

Waiting here for you to come and tell me

What I do so wrong?

[Verse 1: Tech N9ne]

Listen to me, this talent was given to me

By his omnipotence, so dig it

Music is livin' through me

Even through prisons I've arisen he big and is in movies

Ism is if his is a hit, the vision isn't beauty for women

When I'm writin' I'm winnin', so excitin' I'm grinnin'

Then you strike and now the fights are beginnin'

I gotta be sharp as a knife when I'm on the mic and you sinnin'

By stiflin' my spinnin', what imaginary life has you been in?

By thinkin' you be the reason, no speakin' to you this evenin'

I'm deep in this music reachin' for the piece I dilute the season

But you be illin' because my attention you truly stealin'

Pursue the millions, come in second-would you be willin'?

Don't think so, you be thinkin' time and I think dough

Love is what you need from me, but in time it'll shrink mo'

'Cause I be on the grind for this rhyme and the ink flow

I go for mine and you think it's a crime, and I think "WHOA"

[Chorus: Krizz Kaliko]

And I can't give up what I'm in love with

I guess I'm a mess and I just can't shake it

(I just can't change what I am)

And I can't give up what I'm in love with

I guess I'm a mess and I just can't shake it

(I just can't change what I am)

[Verse 2: Tech N9ne]

Everything in my closet is black, white and red

Most of my homies was bosses but got life or dead

Now I move in they shadows but I got the mic and bread

But this life it seem ya destiny is a knife or lead

Yes I was brought up in a Christian house

But my mother marrying a Muslim threw the Christian out

And what they did to Malcolm X threw the Islam out

So my homies with money seemed to be the glistenin' route

What I found was funerals and I found it was real friends

But I paid attention and then I found it was real men

Takin' care of their families automatically built in

Riskin' they life in the street as long as the wheel spin

So, what I gathered from it is simply my prerogative

I only wish the organization was more positive

I maintain, and continue to gain thangs

I bust and I claim Strange but I'm reppin' the gang bang

[Chorus: Krizz Kaliko]

And I can't give up what I'm in love with

I guess I'm a mess and I just can't shake it

(I just can't change what I am)

And I can't give up what I'm in love with

I guess I'm a mess and I just can't shake it

(I just can't change what I am)