Yeah, uh-huh, ay

Ever since I was a jit, had to take the risk

Got it out the dirt, know you smell the stench

And that really got me sick, really got me bent

Coming from the trench, it was always tense

Make it hard to go legit now

Way too bad to be a victim

All bad be the path that I went down

Couldn't tell you if there's sumn we could fix now, dawg, 'cause I don't know no other way

I don't know no other way

Maybe in another life I could've went the other way

Detached from my emotions, all my feelings had to cut away

Cauterize that part off where my heart was no longer stays, it wanes on me

The image of the boy I was once is hidden in my exterior

I couldn't mirror him

I was lost to the law like scratching off the serial

Toss me to the side, and then they labeled me inferior

They calling him a demon, treat him like a heathen

Always beat him down, but that ain't ever where they leave him

Hate in their face anytime they ever see him

The block get hot, but it get cold in every season

Writing on the wall, but I don't waste my time to read it

I don't need to analyze it, man, I live it, man, I see it

I learned you waste your breath when you airing out your grievance

Rather get to work to kill my weakness

Ever since I was a jit, had to take the risk

Got it out the dirt, know you smell the stench

And that really got me sick, really got me bent

Coming from the trench, it was always tense

Make it hard to go legit now

Way too bad to be a victim

All bad be the path that I went down

Couldn't tell you if there's sumn we could fix now, dawg, 'cause I don't know no other way

I was moving godless, I didn't have no conscience

I was living dead, dawg, I was barely conscious

Tried to find my way while I maneuver through the nonsense

I get hit in every way like I was thrown inside a moshpit

Tell me how do I get through this?

Do I gotta cross lines just to get some movement?

I was with the rara, I wanted some improvement

I think that it's hard time, I stopped being foolish, it's useless

And then I found passion, something I was lacking

Change in me drastic, crazy how it happened

Felt like Aladdin when he met Jasmine

Thought I found love, that's until it get tragic

Only thing I'm left with is this pain and this baggage

My hope in a casket that turned me to a savage

Want a new path, I pray that God, He give me passage, ay

'Cause ever since I was a jit, had to take the risk

Got it out the dirt, know you smell the stench

And that really got me sick, really got me bent

Coming from the trench, it was always tense

Make it hard to go legit now

Way too bad to be a victim

All bad be the path that I went down

Couldn't tell you if there's sumn we could fix now, dawg, 'cause I don't know no other way

Yeah, I don't know no other way

Oh God, can it go another way-way? Oh

God, I need another way