Ashes To Ashes Lyrics

If I don't make it then bury me with a pen

So I can ghostwrite for the rappers playing pretend

If I'm standing at the gates and the angels don't let me in

Burn all of my raps and then scatter em in the wind

No head start

Just in case I get to run it back

Spit crack

Not the type that made rounds in the black

Neighborhoods, had em feeling good

Stuck under the spell, wish em well

But I know that it's a special place in hell

For the killers that target the young, target the grown

Parents dead, daughters and sons all on they own

Granny tells all of em chill, just stay at home

Bullets don't have no names, but headstones do

And I'm not trying to bury my kids

Wanna be present so I ain't bout serving a bid

My mindset is something that I had to defeat

I take pride in the fact that I ain't running the streets

Ashes to ashes

Dust to dust

We all gotta go someday

Ashes to ashes

Dust to dust

It's all gonna change someday

Ashes to ashes

Dust to dust

We all gotta go someday

Ashes to ashes

Dust to dust

It's all gonna change someday

Streets desensitized to homicide

Hearing mamas cry

As they listen to the street gospel

Preacher tried

To speak like he was qualified

He too occupied

So I'm speaking in his place

Knowing that I prophesied

In detail

But could never quell my rage

The rap bible

I pray I never litter a page

Cause man can tell lies and the lies can bring death

I'm a man of my word till I'm taking my last breath

Knowledge is pain

Knowledge is power to change

Knowledge is character growth

But it's moments that I'd exchange

For some ignorance

Cause ignorance is bliss sometimes

Take subliminals, but now I never miss no lines

Take me, as I am, or don't take me at all

God hit me on the line, I had to answer the call

Tried to open up my heart and they misused my trust

So it's ashes to ashes, dust to dust

Ashes to ashes

Dust to dust

We all gotta go someday

Ashes to ashes

Dust to dust

It's all gonna change someday

Ashes to ashes

Dust to dust

We all gotta go someday

Ashes to ashes

Dust to dust

It's all gonna change someday

Ashes to ashes

Dust to dust

We all gotta go someday

Ashes to ashes

Dust to dust

It's all gonna change someday

Ashes to ashes

Dust to dust

We all gotta go someday

Ashes to ashes

Dust to dust

It's all gonna change someday