[ti:On This Way(feat. The Game & Iyla) (Explicit)]
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[00:00.01]On This Way(feat. The Game & Iyla) (Explicit) - Joyner Lucas/The Game/Iyla/Gary Lucas
[00:00.02]Composed by：Gary Lucas
[00:00.19]And I think I've encountered my hardest days
[00:04.29]Lord won't you save me oh
[00:09.03]You know what I've been prayin' for
[00:11.84]And I never thought I'd see this day yeah
[00:19.20]I gotta make it change
[00:23.35]And I think I've encountered my hardest days
[00:25.61]Uh writin' plans to make a new report yeah
[00:28.48]Grind hard and turn my basement to a jewelry store
[00:31.28]If you don't do it for your kids
[00:32.62]Then who you do it for
[00:34.07]I'm tryna read and learn some s**t I never knew before
[00:36.79]Focused on investments yeah build me up some nеw resorts
[00:39.63]We can manifest it word you'd rathеr hit the louis store
[00:42.33]Wastin' all your blessings care about the ones who doubt you
[00:45.48]Just to impress some hoes who never gave a f**k about you
[00:48.42]Just what I discovered
[00:49.68]Never believed in family that word is really a cover
[00:52.43]Just a title that have the advantage
[00:54.08]To keep you under oh yeah
[00:55.29]I got n***as I consider brothers more than my brothers
[00:58.31]So watch it you show your colors
[00:59.85]We livin' in a world where prison walls is depravation yeah
[01:02.83]Livin' in a world where snitchin' calls for celebration yeah
[01:05.68]Livin' in a world where n***as crawl and segregation
[01:08.20]Rainy nights and desperation pray we fight the legislation
[01:11.56]Protest until we flatline paralyzed uh
[01:14.15]They throwin' stones at my black lives matter signs oh
[01:17.21]Made a change but we still not satisfied
[01:19.55]I can't smile half the time I'm still I'm still
[01:21.90]I'm still waitin' sittin' plottin' on the couch word
[01:24.36]'Cause I know that I ain't safe when all
[01:25.50]These cops is on the prowl yeah
[01:27.16]Tryna think of other ways but we ain't got no other route
[01:30.07]I'm startin' to understand that s**t that pac was talkin' 'bout word
[01:32.82]And I think I've encountered my hardest days
[01:36.72]Lord won't you save me oh
[01:41.59]You know what I've been prayin' for uh uh uh uh
[01:44.43]And I never thought I'd see this day
[01:47.79]Uh uh uh uh yeah
[01:51.62]I gotta make it change
[01:55.83]And I think I've encountered my hardest days
[01:59.83]Lord won't you save me oh
[02:04.65]You know what I've been prayin' for
[02:07.33]And I never thought I'd see this day yeah
[02:14.75]I gotta make it change
[02:19.05]And I think I've encountered my
[02:21.09]Look time is money and the clock tickin'
[02:23.90]I teach my son love and respect that's a God given word
[02:26.87]My sperm donor never been s**t just a flop
[02:29.04]Listen if it wasn't for my step-pops
[02:30.75]I'd prolly turn out different facts
[02:32.88]Probably be in a cell doin' a life sentence facts
[02:35.79]Probably have twenty baby mamas and nine b***hes facts
[02:38.56]Probably grow up misguided twisted inside the system
[02:41.02]Dropped out and failed 'cause nobody
[02:42.48]Listen to my admission yeah
[02:44.28]Sick of gettin' in fights with n***as less educated
[02:47.24]Sick of gettin' advice from n***as who never made it ooh
[02:50.01]Sick of bein' polite to people with lesser patience
[02:52.62]Oftentimes I wonder where I would be if I never made it
[02:55.74]The hatin' always comes from n***as
[02:57.20]That wish they had all your blessings or the clout true
[02:59.74]And bad vibes forever but I'm destined on this route yeah
[03:02.66]I'm startin' to understand that s**t that X was talkin' 'bout word
[03:05.24]And I think I've encountered my
[03:07.02]Worst thing comes to worst
[03:08.36]I f**kin' die a tragic death or some s**t
[03:10.88]And I'm not able to see out my dreams
[03:15.03]I at least wanna know that the kids perceive my message
[03:20.88]And were able to make something of themselves
[03:22.92]And able to take my message
[03:24.68]And use it and turn it into somethin' positive
[03:27.32]And to to at least have a good life
[03:29.64]If it ain't black owned I'm prolly gon'
[03:31.30]Use it to chop crack on
[03:32.90]Hard white for all them hard nights I had my back on
[03:35.78]Roach-infested carpet tip-toe in my mother's room
[03:38.36]See a dresser and felt no pressure
[03:39.77]When takin' a twenty off it
[03:41.45]Compton like a closed coffin we walkin' to school coughin'
[03:44.15]Often high off the gun smoke boston had at the front door
[03:47.36]Cookin' class I'm jay hov' rock it up on they stove
[03:49.90]Me and my teacher goin' back and forth
[03:51.62]Like noname and J cole
[03:53.00]You said I would never be what I wouldn't amount to what
[03:55.70]Now you in this trader joe's same lines sayin' wassup oh
[03:58.66]Talkin' 'bout like how you like my songs
[04:00.23]Not knowin' it was me
[04:01.39]Security had me in a headlock and
[04:03.05]I told you I couldn't breathe
[04:04.29]Now it's black lives matter and white letters on your shirt
[04:07.33]Now how many black lives did you help or did you hurt
[04:10.30]Did you handicap block push to excel or did you hinder
[04:13.26]Since hindsight's 2020 I guess you don't remember
[04:16.11]Now you with your mixed child havin' all these mixed feelings
[04:18.87]But do your black husband know
[04:20.05]You tried to burn down our village
[04:21.65]But never mind from the line that's for y'all to figure out
[04:24.72]Just know that boy who wasn't s**t bailed all his n***as out
[04:27.78]And it's my black queen I kiss her on her black lips
[04:30.57]And she rock off-white 'cause she support black s**t
[04:33.28]And I'm blacker than a steeler helmet or a spike lee flick
[04:36.24]Black like the pick stuck in the afro of kaepernick