the price we pay

[underground hip hop] -ohhh -no, naw no... don't you -go. and try an learn from me... choices i made -closed all the doors, so i took the only way i could see. -when you are young, its -so -easy, before you life stretches so endlessly. but our mistakes dont erase, instead they become the bars of a cage, and we have only ourselves to blame. so, just take what i know -make it your own. but promise you'll not try to be the same. no me, i am unfit to be, a sensei. senselessly led by my rage, can't even act my own age. and at the end of the book you can't turn the page. all the forgiveness and love from above could not unmake, the hearts that you break, the ones you forsake. and so i am cursed to this bardo state. and with you i would never share such a fate. when you see the good that people create, never forget, there's a price they must pay. [underground hip hop verse] it's easy to idolize salty old guys cause when ya stop givin fukks -ya stop tellin lies, so few that are true it comes as a surprise, refreshing -i know, -but that road is a path through a fire. mo lives than you'll know are lost on that pyre, everyone from when i was young, they have already died. demons will chase you till the day you die, and i always wonder why i never crossed that divide. my only hope is fate has a reason why, and i try to leave seeds for a season to come after i fly... but ohhh -my oh -my. . just take what i know -make it your own. but promise you'll not try to be the same. no me, i am unfit to be, a sensei. senselessly led by my rage, can't even act my own age. and at the end of the book you can't turn the page. all the forgiveness and love from above could not unmake, the hearts that you break, the ones you forsake. and so i am cursed to this bardo state. and with you i would never share such a fate. when you see the good that people create, never forget, there's a price they must pay.