Family Tree

sometimes because of jealousy and the intent to demise

certain factions have to be fobidden or destroyed

fire has to be sent to the poisoned forest

with the root of fresh trees planted elsewhere

only then will you obtain a wilderness

that cannot be penetrated

petrified

family tree

(Chorus)

see what started as a family forest

got cut to a family tree

with the limbs and the leaves

lookin at the world for answers

the world points to the sun

and the sun says the answers in me

so i search through the darkness

can't find the key

so we locked in the land of the lost

lord please

tomorrow ain't promised to you nor me

so now we choose the roots

so we can plant new trees

many minds always meet with pens and sheets

close my eyes think what next on my rhymes

see this face in ink

i'm havin visions of wisdom

dreamin bout my own ending

am i seein death as freedom

and livin as prison

my son didn't have a daddy to shape him

so god bless him with a daddy to save him

yeah i raise him

and pay some attention

he talked and he listened

to reach him and teach him before i'm gone from existence

teach him bout the foes the hos and all opponents

those that always talk bout love

but never showed it

those who had the chances to stand

and always blowed it

those that set you up by the hour to steal your moment

pac

the word is you ain't there so fuck the rumor

i'll get a pound of that shit from bermuda and meet you in cuba

fucked up on larusa no doubt

i know the locale if they gotta born you

i'm gonna mourne you til i join you

(Chorus)

see what started as a family forest

got cut to a family tree

with the limbs and the leaves

lookin at the world for answers

the world points to the sun

and the sun says the answers in me

so i search through the darkness

can't find the key

so we locked in the land of the lost

lord please

tomorrow ain't promised to you nor me

so now we choose the roots

so we can plant new trees

uhhhh...and now i know i got some family

who missed me from the heart

forever we're apart

just because i'm nothin and you abuse me and use me

now you wanna try to come bruise me

and even though maybe were in there farther than it once was

i know family don't always mean that they blood 'cause

some people just don't give a nigga what

some people tried to use my name

so all the fat we had to cut

and i'm still walking with my six amp strut

urban eyes see through camouflage

and now i know who's butt

so when i sent you tried to play me

all of a sudden now i'm shady

maybe deep down in my heart

never trust you from the start

never hoped you'd be my homie

don't come 'round my way

and if we never speak again

it's got to be that way

this millenium we'll be spankin your heiny

remind thee naughty invented family of the 90's

(Chorus)

see what started as a family forest

got cut to a family tree

with the limbs and the leaves

lookin at the world for answers

the world points to the sun

and the sun says the answers in me

so i search through the darkness

can't find the key

so we locked in the land of the lost

lord please

tomorrow ain't promised to you nor me

so now we choose the roots

so we can plant new trees

life doesn't end when the sweat dries

a time when a nickle cost a dollar

when you rise your chest dies

my dynasty

many fear it cos' i'm near it

ancient egyptian scriptures fitted in through hyroglyphics

motherfuckers try to touch my mental state

niggas smile up in your face and then they infiltrate

so it seems nowadays that the only plan

to get my people help my people get a load of land

and imma see it if i have to kill some shit

to make my family tree a motherfucking wilderness

see a black man standin on the promised land

since they broke every promise i devised a plan

this black this and black that crap is gettin touchy

any black hat that cross my path

i call him lucky

those who turn they back with they fears

and try to

before they can see us they gonna need us

sweet jesus

(Chorus x2)

see what started as a family forest

got cut to a family tree

with the limbs and the leaves

lookin at the world for answers

the world points to the sun

and the sun says the answers in me

so i search through the darkness

can't find the key

so we locked in the land of the lost

lord please

tomorrow ain't promised to you nor me

so now we choose the roots

so we can plant new trees