They Lied

It ain't how you die, it's how you breathe

It ain't what you take, it's what you leave and conceive

What you got is nothing if your soul don't represent it

Present it, it ain't where you're from, it's where you been, kid

Eh yo Slug, I used to know this girl named Dawn

Back in the day she had love and everybody was fond

See Dawn was the bomb, her attitude it was calm

Her heart was warm though with the wrong peeps she tagged along

Now she's gone, long passed away

She kicked it with this kid named Andre who lived life the wrong way

I know that kid, seemed as if he had no insecurities

Acted like he was the mac mixed with Hercules

Disturbingly flow just to hold the title "Fly cool"

The first one to tow the tool freshman year in high school

Now mind you, this was back a decade

We was thinking girls, music, shoes, Andre was thinking get paid

But let's say my man just had a knack for acting ill

To the level of immaculate as if it was a practiced skill

He'd have to fill your head with tales

Keep a rep from getting stale

Fourteen, said he spent his winter break in jail

As time goes by, the lines that try to differentiate

The fake from truth get loose so what's the use?

Kid was living on the rails cause he chooses to

Goes to jail, comes back with juice, cruising?

Who knew the bruise would heal so quick?

Who knew the passion would become fashion

And get you fastened onto his dick?

You might as well have let him penetrate

The situation shook me, looking at rookies that try to emulate

One sets the standard, the weak randomly follow

Space ain't shit, some kid'll take your place tomorrow

The cycle never stops cause you can't recycle styrofoam

I still see Andre nowadays, he fucks with microphones

Man, they lied, it ain't how you die, it's how you breathe

It ain't what you take, it's what you leave and conceive

What you got is nothing if your soul don't represent it

Present it, it ain't where you're from, it's where you been, kid

They lied, it ain't how you die, it's how you breathe

It ain't what you take, it's what you leave and conceive

What you got is nothing if your soul don't represent it

Present it, it ain't where you're from, it's where you been, kid

What you got ain't nothing if your soul don't represent it

Present it, it ain't where you're from, it's where you been, kid

What you got is nothing if your soul don't represent it

Present it, it ain't where you're from, it's where you been, kid

They lied, it ain't how you die, it's how you breathe

It ain't what you take, it's what you leave and conceive

What you got is nothing if your soul don't represent it

Present it, it ain't where you're from, it's where you been, kid

But the sun will come out tomorrow

And you can bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow

There'll be someone that's harder than me and smarter than me

And stronger than me and lasts longer than me

So check my fate, wide awake but feels like I'm sleeping

Trife life can't catch a wife that's really worthy my keeping

It's deeper, I peep it, I seem to need to understand

How am I gonna explain to my seed I was the man?

Suicide in crystal court buildings

Young villains holding guns without feelings

Dealing crumbs of demons to those fiending

Lost in dreams when the pressure hit

I mean the fan hit the shit but when the shit hit the fan that was it

Flipped out, you tripped out, you couldn't handle it

Addicted to life dismantlement

? From distortion to brain abortion forcing to perish

Life's to cherish, the moments too little

The path is brittle for those who chose to walk hard

In regards to those who front, stunts get elderly

Propelling me to disappointment, could've been avoided

By egos posing lethal with weapons

Deceptions are ill, revolve around intentions to kill

Gots to chill on that level or end up with the Devil

Digging your grave somewhere in the middle

It's no riddle, they lied

It ain't how you die, it's how you breathe

It ain't what you take, it's what you leave and conceive

What you got is nothing if your soul don't represent it

Present it, it ain't where you're from, it's where you been, kid

They lie, it ain't how you die, it's how you breathe

It ain't what you take, it's what you leave and conceive

What you got is nothing if your soul don't represent it

Present it, it ain't where you're from, it's where you been, kid

What you got is nothing if your soul don't represent it

Present it, it ain't where you're from, it's where you been, kid

What you got is nothing if your soul don't represent it

Present it