Ain't No Happy Endings - Substantial

There ain’t no happy endings, 'cause nothing really ends

When your life is over, another begins

And that’s the way it works in the circle of life

Balancing those good days with the times of strife

There ain’t no happy endings, 'cause nothing really ends

When this life is over, another begins

And that’s the way it works in the circle of life

Balancing these good days in these times of strife

I’m just trying to make it

Life’s precious for granted I’ll never take it

Every breath I breathe to me is sacred

Back when I was young, my only love was football and my mama

Learn to use curse words before I ever used a comma

Little bad ass

All I liked in school was gym and art class

Life’s changin', I was age ten when my pop passed

His love for cancer sticks and alcohol prove to be tragic

My fam’s seen it all we became immune to havoc

My lyrics is satisfaction to those who use to be addicts

Soothin' the beast within all those who use to be savage

I advocate the acronym F.U.B.U.

speak to

As if my tongue was tattooed with the word uhuru

Using my freestyle to emancipate mind states

Fuck 21, I’d like to live to see 9−8

But this world’s got me going bananas like a primate

People you thought you knew full of surprises like a blind date

And I hate

Cash flashing niggas with a passion

More to life than dollars and rockin' the latest fashion

Seems like we either wanna play ball or be assassins

While children go to bed to lullabies of guns blastin'

No matter the weather

I’m striving to make it better

But my motto is a contradiction «Never say never!»

I will not

I remain poetic like Gil Scott

So stand up, get up

My people keep your head up!

And live everyday like it’s your last

'Cause life only get harder as time goes past

And yo, the sun might not come out tomorrow

Don’t let your life end in sorrow

That’s why you live everyday like it’s your last

'Cause life only get harder as time go past

And yo, the sun might not come out tomorrow

Don’t let your life end in sorrow

-HOOK-

I try to live day by day without a fear or a worry

It’s no time to waste I make moves in a hurry

Used to be so clear now my vision’s getting blurry

Streets is hotter than Tabasco sauce on chicken curry

Bullets fly from guns with no target in particular

Fatally hittin' ya

Leavin' bodies perpendicular

To those still existin'

Silencers hissin'

Piercin' the darkness

Bringin' forth another carcass

Total bedlam, swear these streets is infested

Filled with the many horrors that the devil manifested

Children molested

Nuclear weapons being tested

Somehow I avoided being shot or arrested

Brothers tried to bring it to me

Send slugs through me

Almost was bodied thrice back when I was just a juvy

Hard to deal thought about putting one in my own temple

Permanent scars on my physical and my mental

Sometimes I’m glad my niece is no longer around to see this

Not a trace of unity society’s in pieces

Liquor spattered on concrete to mourn those that we miss

Watch day and night, controlled by unseen leashes

Watch day and night, controlled by unseen leashes

Watch day and night, controlled by unseen leashes

Yo, but no matter what…

You know something?

This is what you gotta do…

-BRIDGE-

-HOOK-