Immortal

Album: 4 Your Eyez Only (2016)
Charted: 49 11
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    Now I was barely seventeen with a pocket full of hope
    Screamin', dollar and a dream with my closet lookin' broke
    And my nigga's lookin' clean, gettin' caught up with that dope
    Have you ever served a fiend with a pocket full of soap?
    Nigga I can tell you things that you probably shouldn't know
    Have you ever heard the screams when the body hit the floor?
    Flashbacks to the pain, wakin' up, cold sweats
    Six o'clock in the mornin', gotta hit the BoFlex
    Get my weight up on the block, keep watch for the cops
    God they love to serve a nigga three hots and a cot
    Nowadays crime pays like a part time job
    And the drought got me prayin' for a car time vibe
    Summer Rain come again
    Numb the pain 'cause it's hard for a felon
    In my mind I been cryin', know it's wrong but I'm sellin'
    Eyes wellin' up with tears
    Thinkin' 'bout my niggas dead in the dirt
    Immortalized on this shirt

    Real niggas don't die
    Form with the plot
    One-Seven-Forty-Five
    Form at the plot
    Real niggas don't die
    Form on the plot
    Hood niggas don't lie
    Form on the plot
    My niggas don't die
    Form on the plot
    Real niggas don't die
    Form on the plot
    Real niggas don't die
    Real niggas don't die

    Have you ever seen a fiend cook crack on the spoon?
    Have you ever seen a nigga that was black on the moon?
    Have you ever seen your brother go to prison as you cried?
    Have you ever seen a motherfuckin' ribbon in the sky?
    Nope, all I see is that C.R.E.A.M nigga, that green
    I'm a black king, black jeans on my black queen
    And her ass fat, too fat for a flat screen
    I'm the type of nigga make the whole fuckin' trap lean
    Kingpin nigga, put wings on a crack fiend
    If they want a nigga, they gon' have to send a SWAT team
    And I'm goin' out like Scarface in his last scene
    A legend, what that mean?

    Real niggas don't die
    Form with the plot
    One-Seven-Forty-Five
    Form at the plot
    Real niggas don't die
    Form on the plot
    Hood niggas don't lie
    Form on the plot
    My niggas don't die
    Form on the plot
    Real niggas don't die
    Form on the plot
    Real niggas don't die
    Real niggas don't die

    To die a young legend or live a long life unfulfilled
    'Cause you wanna change the world
    But while alive you never will
    'Cause they only feel you after you gone, or I've been told
    And now I'm caught between bein' heard and gettin' old
    Damn, death creepin' in my thoughts lately
    My one wish in this bitch make it quick if the Lord take me
    I know nobody meant to live forever anyway
    And so I hustle like my niggas in Virgini-A
    They tellin' niggas sell dope, rap or go to NBA, in that order
    It's that sort of thinkin' that been keepin' niggas chained
    At the bottom and hanged
    The strangest fruit that you ever seen, ripe with pain
    Listen Writer/s: Carl McCormick, Jasmin Charles, Jermaine Cole, Margaux Whitney
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Missing Link Music, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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