Life Sentences

[Intro: Tech N9ne]

I won't look back anymore, after this

Pitch black, star bright, yeah that's my life

A bit of fire and ice

Watch friends, plot foes, stock ends and pot holes

'Cause when the tank hit the bank, it just got closed

Don't be stank in the paint 'cause the yak froze

[Verse 1: Tech N9ne]

Wish I knew back when I was strugglin'

If I plugged in and kept bustin'

I'd be buzzin', that'd make me super rich

Never knew my sufferin' over but

Cousin, I keep it up and gushin'

And tell all of my family, aunts and uncles, cousins to do the shit

Just gain power through all of the rain showers

No good to remain sour 'cause someone else's lame hours

Wish I woulda known to tell 'em all to start they own business

Make long digits instead of havin' a boss who talk at the wrong pitches

To fake friends, 'cause it's never enough

At hostile situations with folks, I learned it's better to bust

First, and you still a nigga no matter how much ya stuff's worth

You love who love you, do hug who does true

Connect the true blood to cuzz blue

So keep hopin' the Lord does show up

'Cause it'll never be no peace on earth for all of us

'Til this mug blow up

[Chorus: Krizz Kaliko]

Locked up, I'm free still doing time

I'm stuck, on those that's on my mind

Incarcerated, sometimes I hate it

This is the sentence of my life

[Verse 2: Joey Cool]

Ponderin' these thoughts while sittin' idle in this mezzanine

Feel my feelin's boilin' up, I'm simmerin' on everything

Goin' for the gold because it's shimmerin', but everything

That you encounter seems to be devoured, need a better team

Every thought and every dream, every plot and every scheme

Lurkin' around the corner is a hater waiting like a fiend

And choice of drug is negative, and they use it like a sedative

Success becomes the cause of this effect, abuse the medicine

You thinkin' you can let 'em in, partake in buildin' excellence

The serpents come in twos and they meticulous with they meddlin'

The feathers flock together, see the relationships we settle in

Got consequences so it's best to let 'em go, we blessed again

Disloyalty unfoiled, trynna justify they pestilence

I don't understand why they so demanding manic pessimists

I guess if I had to guess, I'd make an estimate, I guess that they

Was just afraid so watch us levitate 'til I'm at heaven's gate

[Chorus: Krizz Kaliko]

Locked up, I'm free still doing time

I'm stuck, on those that's on my mind

Incarcerated, sometimes I hate it

This is the sentence of my life

[Verse 3: Gee Watts]

Mmm, life sentence for fallen angel physical body

Illuminate my soul, officially became godly

I be the one, all of these demons runnin' from

Dumped a gun, lifted spirits, niggas deem me the chosen one

Phony family in my crowd, rappin' gap and loud

Facin' twelve in the pen, none of them niggas made a sound

None of them niggas round

Now the fame close and the name boasts

I'm 'posed to break bread bitch, taste toast

I should smoke them ungrateful bitches

They doin' the most to see what make you choke

It actually leave ya throat missin'

I'm on a mission to revisit kin and

My prime been hidden, trynna dine with women

Dipped in finest linen, try and find a business

I love who love Gee, fuck you if it's fuck me

That's just how it gotta be, 'cause I'm paper routin'

Tame nuisance, insane view and check on my lawn

Strange recruit me, guess when the god speakin' Strange Music

[Chorus: Krizz Kaliko]

Locked up, I'm free still doing time

I'm stuck, on those that's on my mind

Incarcerated, sometimes I hate it

This is the sentence of my life

[Post-Chorus: Krizz Kaliko]

Here the sentence of my life

This is the sentence of my life

[Outro: Krizz Kaliko]

Instead of cry, maybe I'll keep it inside

Instead of cry, I cry maybe I'll keep it inside

Instead of cry, maybe I'll keep it inside

Instead of cry, I cry maybe I'll keep it inside

Instead of—, maybe I'll keep it inside

I cry, maybe I'll keep it inside

Ma-maybe, I'll keep it inside

Keep it inside