History Lesson

Ay yo check it I spit rhymes from the sublime nearly all the time And that's fine right but don't go think I ain't pay my price Let me take you back the beginning Back when I was sitting within me Lost in my guilt Buried under All the regrets I done built Very first song was To Try, To Lie That was just the very start Of the dark night Try to move Lie to me, lie to you Self unglued and hued Black by exhaust fumes Of burn coal Shoveled on top of my head yo Yeah you ain't know Cause I ain't got that win yet (lame joke) How bout we go straight to the center Of this me as a sinner In that cold as winter Trapped inside my mind I didn't know it back then But there was light in every line All on me as it done fall on me Accepted hell cause I kept hearin The devil callin me Devil and I back when I could barely ask why 3 years older than 5 Trapped inside a basement For 2 or 3 nights With almost no food No window view Nothin to do Knew every inch Cement pinched to the bone dude Happened to be in zone zoom When he came from his throne room Told me to kill For all I'd been goin through I couldn't see it through My eyes were too teary dude I couldn't be like that Even in that little cold room Entombed and screwed But I wouldn't betray my heart loom And I stitched it like fabric in the static Inmy song to the man that Brought me to this planet King of every excuse I let off I done had it Ain't no fuckin takin it back when The fuckin track still be trackin All these years later he blind Still be laughin and he done lost About everything cept that iron casket I'm tellin you You don't know the shit that I seen Shit I felt pierce into me Don't know what it was like To be born into this dark night Right out the fucking gate Fighting for life And you wonder how I get so dark Yet I prop up the light