I’m still there smashing away
I work hard for a chance to escape
I’m in the running for the cash that it pays
but when I get my money I’ll dash on that day
you’ll see a different act up on stage
you’ll never get me back in that cage
I’ll chew through bone to break free
chewing you out, won’t phase me
I’m alive six under the dirt
living cannibal hunting my words
I’m a saint when I fuck and I curse cause I
do both things out of love for the work
I’m a regular man on fire
to let it pass no plan of mine
I’m not here for some random fight
I’m here for the belt and you can stand in line
and just watch, when it comes to the buck
we swing to hook up, it’s nothing but luck
you might just find, the one that you love
or you could be another one that get’s fucked
I’ll pre-empt without a reason to strike
already left the scene in my mind
you’ll see I’m free like a slave in a grave
and this is the name of the game that I play
one foot in a week from now
and one more foot in the peace I’ve found
I’ve no love for what I see right now
I’ll ride that bitch til teeth bite ground
no fault to the class of today
I’m really all for your art to relate
but you lot haven’t yet got a mark to your name
so how the fuck can you spark on stage
you need a little dirt to win
these people really haven’t ever heard something
telling them what you’ve found is out
you gotta give em something from the down and proud
underdogs do get up and can
rise to the truth, bite that hand
you are worth more than some applause
find that tune, and run that score

have I said too much at one time?
better hold my tongue while I bite
if I talk from the gut then run
not a bullet will I leave to rot in this gun
I am too much a bully to move on
and what would you do with the problems I’ve got
it’s nothing to do with the option to wrong
and everything to do with the way that I play god
if pop is the picture of perfect
then rap is a scripture of burden
clever doesn’t buy shit for the workers
you have to have actually lived to have earned it
real life transmitted to purpose
real people living their verses
real pain revealing the worst is
real gain for killing with words so
the real game is delivering murder
I’m still saying you’ll win if you turn all your
tricks and gimmicks and wish to be worshipped
into shit the people can feel is for certain
nothing better than lifting the curtain
taking off the mask revealing the inner workings
of a person aiming at perfect
only to realize they’ve no idea
what the meaning of worth is

you need a little dirt to win
yeah the people really wanna hear something
underdogs do get up and can
rise to the truth and bite that hand
don't think that love is enough
to fill your belly right up to the top
hold some tight and let some go
don't lose yourself to another damn joke
you are worth more than some applause
find that tune and run that score
it was never between you and them
you're the only one that cares my friend