Lay Down Your Weapons

Album: I Ain't Perfect (2013)
Charted: 18
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  • Lay down your weapons, weapons for me
    Lay down your weapons, weapons for me
    If that means anything
    Can we avoid war, search and destroy war
    Learn what to live for if that means anything
    Lay down your weapons
    Weapons for me if that means anything

    Listen little man I done told
    You fuck the hype ting
    I done told you road life
    Ain’t what it might seem
    Where I’m from we do wrong
    For the right green
    But at a price could loose your
    Life for some nice things
    No nice dreams just fiends and sirens
    No lie you don’t wanna hear the nine scream
    These cold nights got us slipping
    Like an ice rink
    My bro died he got hit up like lightening
    My road darg kill him
    He’s in prison with the lifers
    Youngin’ listen can you vision
    Where my mind is
    This life’s sick the ends sort
    Of like the wire friends turn snitch I know
    You heard about spider
    I recommend you take a telling from me
    Cause I been in it from the start darg
    It's hell in these streets
    Once you’re in it then you’re in
    It ain’t no settling beef
    Lay down your weapons, fuck repping
    Get your money and leave

    Lay down your weapons, weapons for me
    Lay down your weapons, weapons for me
    If that means anything
    Can we avoid war, search and destroy war
    Learn what to live for if that means anything
    Lay down your weapons
    Weapons for me if that means anything

    You think this life looks fun?
    Well look a little closer
    You just might find this life
    Isn’t what you hoped for
    Road sides a lie and the
    Proof is in the culture
    The truth is you die or sit down no sofa
    Prison living is an image you don’t know darg
    Picture living in this prison
    And it’s so dark
    And when you listen you hear
    Whispers from the cold draft
    Looking in the mirror at a
    Sinner with a broke heart
    I know it’s so hard, I hope it won’t last
    I know you’re scarred and you just
    Wanna get your doe fast
    But you don’t wanna end up
    Dead or stuck behind bars
    Time is of the essence and
    The present flies past
    When the nine sparks mothers
    Lose their baby boys
    The die hard kids wanna play with toys
    Listen to my voice can you hear my pain?
    Before there isn’t choice Writer/s: BRYAN GARZA, JAMES BUDI KRIMMEL, PETER KRIMMEL, ROBERT GARZA
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Royalty Network, Songtrust Ave, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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