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[00:00.75]Step by step heart to heart left right left
[00:05.05]We all fall down
[00:09.49]Step by step heart to heart left right left
[00:13.79]We all fall down like toy soldiers
[00:21.60]Bit by bit torn apart we never win
[00:25.62]But the battle wages on for toy soldiers
[00:32.94]I'm supposed to be the soldier
[00:34.32]Who never blows his posure
[00:35.63]Even though I hold the weight of
[00:37.36]The whole world on my shoulders
[00:38.69]I am never supposed to show it
[00:40.25]My crew ain't supposed to know it
[00:41.74]Even if it means goin' toe to toe
[00:43.33]With a Benzino it don't matter
[00:45.02]I'd never drag them in battles
[00:46.42]That I can handle unless I absolutely have to
[00:49.00]I'm supposed to set an example
[00:50.29]I need to be the leader
[00:51.75]My crew looks for me to guide 'em
[00:53.71]If some sh*t ever just pop off
[00:55.31]I'm supposed to be beside 'em
[00:56.65]Now Ja said I tried to squash it
[00:58.34]It was too late to stop it
[00:59.68]There's a certain line you
[01:00.68]Just don't cross and he crossed it
[01:02.19]I heard him say Hailie's name on a song and I just lost it
[01:05.27]It was crazy
[01:05.98]This sh*t be way beyond some Jay-z and Nas sh*t
[01:08.10]And even though the battle was won
[01:09.84]I feel like we lost it
[01:11.16]I spent too much energy on it
[01:12.76]Honestly I'm exhausted
[01:13.87]And I'm so caught in it I almost feel
[01:16.00]I'm the one who caused it
[01:17.05]This ain't what I'm in hip-hop for it's not why I got in it
[01:20.09]That was never my object for someone to get killed
[01:22.56]Why would I wanna destroy something I help build
[01:25.54]It wasn't my intentions my intentions was good
[01:28.66]I went through my whole career without ever mentionin' Suge
[01:31.36]And that was just out of respect for not runnin' my mouth
[01:34.56]And talkin' about something that I knew nothing about
[01:37.56]Plus Dre told me stay out this just wasn't my beef
[01:40.38]So I did I just fell back watched and gritted my teeth
[01:43.33]While he's all over t v
[01:44.86]Down talkin' a man who literally saved my life
[01:47.47]Like f**k it i understand this is business
[01:49.79]And this sh*t just isn't none of my business
[01:52.41]But still knowin' this sh*t could pop off at any minute cuz
[01:55.48]Step by step heart to heart left right left
[01:59.34]We all fall down like toy soldiers
[02:07.05]Bit by bit torn apart we never win
[02:11.22]But the battle wages on for toy soldiers
[02:18.73]There used to be a time when you could just say a rhyme
[02:21.48]And wouldn't have to worry about one of your people dyin'
[02:24.14]But now it's elevated cuz once you put someone's kids in it
[02:27.34]The sh*t gets escalated it ain't just words no more is it
[02:30.30]It's a different ball game
[02:31.49]Callin' names and you ain't just rappin'
[02:32.96]We actually tried to stop the 50 and Ja beef from happenin'
[02:36.15]Me and Dre had sat with him
[02:38.01]Kicked it and had a chat with him
[02:39.55]And asked him not to start it he wasn't gonna go after him
[02:42.20]Until Ja started yappin' in magazines how we stabbed him
[02:45.19]F**k it 50 smash 'em mash 'em and let him have it
[02:48.06]Meanwhile my attention is pullin' in other directions
[02:50.61]Some receptionist at The Source
[02:52.41]Who answers phones at his desk
[02:53.87]Has an erection for me and thinks that I'll be his ressurection
[02:56.36]Tries to blow the dust off his mic and make a new record
[02:59.72]But now he's f**ked the game up cuz one of the ways
[03:02.17]I came up
[03:02.85]Was through that publication the same one
[03:04.46]That made me famous
[03:05.41]Now the owner of it has got a grudge against me for nothin'
[03:08.50]Well f**k it that mutherf**ker can get it too f**k him then
[03:11.61]But I'm so busy being pissed off I don't stop to think
[03:14.22]That we just inherited 50's beef with Murder Inc
[03:16.90]And he's inherited mine
[03:18.55]Which is fine ain't like either of us mind
[03:20.80]We still have soldiers that's on the front line
[03:23.12]That's willing to die for us as soon as we give the orders
[03:26.24]Never to extort us strictly to show they support us
[03:28.94]We'll maybe shout 'em out in a rap or up in a chorus
[03:32.20]To show them we love 'em back
[03:33.77]And let 'em know how important it is
[03:35.27]To have run ya nav and who sulked us up in our corners
[03:38.66]Their loyalty to us is worth more than any award is
[03:41.00]But I ain't tryna have none of my people hurt and murdered
[03:43.87]There ain't words that I can't think of a perfecter way to word it
[03:46.88]Then to just say that I love ya'll too much to see the virdict
[03:49.51]I'll walk away from it all before I let it go any further
[03:52.32]But don't get it twisted it's not a plea that I'm coppin'
[03:55.82]I'm just willin' to be the bigger man
[03:57.61]If ya'll can quit poppin' off at your jaws with the knockin'
[04:00.13]Cuz frankly I'm sick of talkin'
[04:01.53]I'm not gonna let someone
[04:02.56]Elses coffin rest on my conscience cuz
[04:04.39]Step by step heart to heart left right left
[04:08.46]We all fall down like toy soldiers
[04:16.28]Bit by bit torn apart we never win
[04:20.40]But the battle wages on for toy soldiers