Cousin Of Death-La Cosa Nostra

[ti:Cousin Of Death] [ar:La Cosa Nostra] [al:A Brand You Can Trust] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Cousin Of Death - La Cosa Nostra [00:11.47]Glory fades and glory days ain't [00:14.18]Always what they seem [00:16.42]Give all I got and make my salaat [00:19.26]And dream my broken dreams [00:21.87]I crawl inside ball up and hide tuck [00:25.09]My pain away [00:27.18]And hope to God I fall into a sleep where [00:30.99]I can stay [00:32.76]We all got bills to settle [00:35.08]We all got a price to pay [00:37.48] [00:38.25]And if I make it through the night [00:40.57]I can fight another day [00:43.52]They say it's better to burn out than [00:46.49]It is to fade away [00:48.19] [00:48.77]I just hope to God [00:50.24]I can fall into a sleep where I can stay [00:54.18]It was a couple of years ago that [00:55.72]I started becoming numb [00:57.21]No one could understand where all [00:58.64]My words were coming from [00:59.77]Having visions of a nine to five [01:01.29]A wife a blunt a son [01:02.53]Of a life of hustle getting by [01:03.99]With some of the running gun [01:04.96]Is it best to be a crumb [01:06.46]My ex says he's a bum [01:07.89]Lashing out in violence whenever [01:09.24]My destiny it hung [01:10.50]In the balance rum I'm drinking gallons some think that my flows [01:13.84]Are more poetic than the poems of [01:15.22]Edgar Allen Poe [01:17.11]But I know that I'm at a challenge though [01:18.71]I can hold an old Calico to [01:20.32]My dome and let my talents go [01:22.14]Sh*t I spent my whole life around [01:23.54]The violence so [01:24.70]I planted seeds of hate oh [01:26.02]I let my habits grow [01:27.34]I slept with the homeless [01:28.33]I copped with the fiends [01:29.42]Lost the love inside my heart [01:30.67]I even forgot what it means [01:32.13]Seen the ripest nights turn into [01:33.64]The rottenest schemes [01:34.88]But through it all [01:35.82]I have never forgotten my dreams [01:37.62]When the gutters fill with blood [01:39.66]That's spilled from friends that pass away [01:42.69] [01:43.22]And memories of eulogies while standing [01:46.62]By their graves [01:48.43]Just trying to survive [01:50.34]We wind up living lives like slaves [01:54.00]I hope to God [01:55.14]I can fall into a sleep where [01:57.48]I can stay [01:59.17]We all got beef to settle we all got [02:02.76]Demons to slay [02:04.70]And if I pray all through the night [02:07.35]I can fight another day [02:09.99]They say it's better to burn out than [02:12.96]It is to fade away [02:15.05]I just hope to God [02:16.91]I can fall into a sleep where [02:19.28]I can stay [02:20.59] [02:21.14]Rest in peace to my homie Sob [02:23.11]I stand before an altar of open [02:24.99]Sepultures and coffins [02:26.30]I heard Javier got killed it didn't seem real [02:28.91]With an army of goons drinking straight vodka to deal [02:31.66]We live and die by the gun wear [02:33.50]Our hearts on our sleeves [02:34.75]Even though our compassion's destined to die on the streets [02:37.28]What's left over a cold hollow murder machine [02:39.86]With an appetite for malevolence perversion [02:41.97]And greed [02:42.52]When one of us dies we don't really [02:44.41]Learn anything [02:45.35]Outside the funeral doing bumps burning trees [02:48.19]Plotting revenge crying over fallen angels [02:50.92]Sometimes your friends die the most [02:52.39]Awkward strangers [02:53.37]I can't lie sometimes [02:54.35]This life makes me a stranger to myself [02:56.68]But I'm pulling myself together [02:58.06]It's bigger than just me [02:59.51]As I spit this bear witness to truth [03:01.40]My unborn seed listens while [03:03.11]I spit in the booth [03:04.26]Glory fades and glory days ain't always [03:07.85]What they seem [03:09.64]Give all I got and make my salaat [03:12.55]And dream my broken dream [03:15.01]I crawl inside ball up and hide tuck [03:18.56]My pain away [03:20.61]And hope to God I fall into a sleep where [03:24.41]I can stay [03:25.56] [03:26.11]We all got bills to settle [03:28.40]We all got a price to pay [03:31.01] [03:31.77]And if I make it through the night [03:34.00]I can fight another day [03:36.31] [03:36.91]They say it's better to burn out than [03:39.83]It is to fade away [03:42.12]I just hope to God [03:43.56]I can fall into a sleep where I can stay