Get Up - Tayyib Ali

Uh… It’s Eighteen

Life in the Keystone State.

Doors opening…

And they just close right in your face…

You just gotta break in

Damn…

A voice unheard, don’t you hear me calling?

I really got nothing but somehow I put it all in

I worry everyday, do I deserve this hard shit?

Flying to the top but God tell me will I fall quick?

When I make it there, just life below the heavens

Above the blue sky, but I ain’t got no exile

Like God, why am I from a dirty place where lead fly?

But I knew that I could change it if I tried, I’m down to ride

Hardest days of my life were no mother and father

On stage in the lights but look, none of them saw it

Stuck in rap roulette, the game is the revolver

Pulling the trigger on my future, just take a chance

You won’t believe it, I’m kindergarten dreaming

A prophet how I show them the light, but they ain’t see it

And you was in the streets while I was packing up leaving

And everybody told me take it easy, oh jesus…

I don’t wanna cry no more

I don’t wanna try no more

They tell me give up, give up, give up

But I can’t it’s time to get up, get up, get up

Cause I can

I don’t wanna cry no more

I dont wanna try no more

They tell me give up, give up, give up

But I can’t it’s time to get up, get up, get up

Cause I can

Tayyib Ali

Keystone State of Mind

Now listen.

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