Carry Me Away (feat. Mike Shinoda)

I was an outcast, outsider, troublemaker

A lost soul, out of control, in danger

Didn't have a care in the world, my feelings were numb

Never showin' emotion is easy for some

I don't know how it happened, how I got to this point

But I needed a way out, I was stuck in the void

I needed another path or I'd self-destruct

I was down on my luck, my head was so ****

A menace runnin' the streets is what I was

Holdin' my heat and rollin' with the serious thugs

You couldn't tell me a thing, I was like my brother

Words went in one ear and out the other

Slingin' and bangin' with a chip on my shoulder

Went insane in the brain, certified street soldier

So close to the grave at an early age

Can't tell you the price I've paid

Oh, the sky overhead's like a canvas of gray

I don't know how much time I'll be given to stay

From the first break of light till the end of the day

I'm just livin' my life till they come carry me away

I've been there in L.A. nights, on the block where I came up

My pops used to hate when we'd hang with them bangers

Guess he knew one day that would become us

That's just how it is when you live where we come from

"Fight, don't run," is the motto we lived by

Get 'em on the ground and stomp 'em out about ten times

We was just kids back then

I had no remorse for what we did back then

Six of us, one car, we'd all pack in

Hit the strip and go and get the **** crackin'

Gun wars and drug deals, I seen 'em happen

When I started losin' homeboys, I wasn't laughin'

I looked all around and seen none of 'em there

That's when I figured out that nobody cared

If we lived or died, we'll just get high and ride

And I wasn't gon' let this happen one more time

Oh, the sky overhead's like a canvas of gray

I don't know how much time I'll be given to stay

From the first break of light till the end of the day

I'm just livin' my life till they come carry me away

My mother would stand for me every step of the way

She didn't judge me, she told me I'd win some day

When I was at my lowest, when I had no focus

She pulled me out the gutter, said I wasn't hopeless

Every night she prayed for me, I was out in the street

Chillin' on the corner with the hand on my heat

Eyes open wide for the pigs and foes

It's an everyday hazard when you hustle for dough

So many nights I didn't come home, she thought the worst

Maybe somebody shot me dead without any remorse

Maybe I hurt somebody and I was stuck in a cell

Well, I regret all those times that I put her through ****

When I reflect back on those days, my heart aches

And everybody I lost or let down, I wish I could take it all back

And make it better, but I can't, so I try to make amends

And be there through thick and thin

Oh, the sky overhead's like a canvas of gray

I don't know how much time I'll be given to stay

From the first break of light till the end of the day

I'm just livin' my life till they come carry me away

Come carry me away

Come carry me away

Come carry me away

Come carry me away