Pain

No man is safe from (pain)

Broken arm, broken heart, shattered dreams

Tongue piercings lost at rates

Punched in the face by the local thug

Bent over, caught the stomach flu bug

While hitting it from the back burnt your knee on the rug

Last hug from the homie

Before he flies out to Pelican for the long stretch

Tattooed sketch takes two days to complete

Father never was around, deadbeat nigga

Tossed in the Hudson with concrete feet

Yoga master hypnotized known to defeat

And remain calm, blisters on the palm

Then only bring home half pay

Need a fix, locked up in the halfway

S&M freaks add a little when they do the nasty

When I die, pray that it's done in a fast way

Don't want no long stroll down pain's pathway

All life long playing the game in order to gain

Taking in the pain

Chorus

Well I guess you want to place your rays

Or have wild escapades, let your tongue

Cut the truth down like sling blades

Hard to rest your head on the mess that we made

Better let it go now while there's lessons to save

Every day's a close shave, cause I'm on

Somebody might take you to the grave

Cutting off your light of life, picture me a slave

Shit, shelters always cave and eventually

The inner trap's set me free from pain

To most pain is unappealing

But pain is what we're feeling

Needing healing, so much pressure is building

In the presence of pressure

We keep building until the ending

The love child runs wild

Through the concrete jungle

Trying to stay true to self and humble

Trying to make the money pile

Cats used to walk over me like a tile

But now it's them that's going down in a spiral

Cause they're trapped in denial

We keep ours as swift as the feet of Mercury

Or the arms of Hercules, yours is weak as an Achilles

The people feel these like a summer breeze

From city to city, international

Multiracial faces in all places

The sun shines brightest on smiling faces

Today is that day when the pain erases

To most pain is unappealing

But pain is what we're feeling

Needing healing, so much pressure is building

In the presence of pressure

We keep building until the ending

I bet you got get-up-and-go power

It's time to grow, flower

Let the rain wash the pain from plains of indigo

Hard to tender when defending your name off pinnacles

Reclaim in intervals until you're strong again

Strong and sane with the stronger aim

My eyes dilate to see all the gain

And it's all the same, we're all to blame

For giving and receiving hate

You best believe in pain