Heart Shaped Box - The Crest

With the cards in my heart you can’t call the bluff

I’m workin' hard on my part, still starvin', what

Can you say about a person when that’s all he does?

I’m OJ with the verse and leave a wall of blood

You can’t say I’m not determined, you can call it love

Music’s like churches to all of us

Problems will surface in all of us

So come out with your purpose and a start a fuss

And I might not know the people you do

Or hang in crowds you might expect me to

So please excuse this, my need to do this

Trumps all else so I pump the music

And I’m not just here to blow my own horn

And I’m not just here to make my money

I’m just here cuz a heart don’t fit in a box

And that’s what you can’t take from me

Take a turn like your blinker’s on

From the burn and learn to forget the storm

Whether you’re kurds or serbs, rooks, kings or pawns

You deserve to get hurt for the things you fought

Yup, yup, for the things you sought

You deserve to be certain in the things there are

You can serve to a sermon to pimp your car

Long as you determine the things too far

I can make like a raven and watch

All the fakes as I prey on the flock

I’m in a place I can say what I want

All within this heart shaped box

All within this heart shaped box

This is livin' the right verse, writin' to live.

Where

Fittin' in the finish is the name of the bus'-ness

Heart’s the reason I don’t give up and quit

It’s all to stop me from not givin' a shit, so

I play the hand that’s been handed to me, got

To hold it down or I can’t set it free, not

Gonna sound like the next MC

Rest in peace, you see the crest within me, yeah

Tim McGraw is who I’m thinkin' I are

Singin' songs 'bout my life and my girl in the bar

In the middle of a song I got the world in my palm

And I eat it bit by bit, 'til I hurl on my lawn, yeah

More spit than the mouth of a dog

On the couch with a ball, chillin' after the haul

Yo, an anthill to most is a mountain to crawl

'Cause us Americans will never get outta our cars

Here’s proof of a pulse, a movement a cause

A room with a view for you to view all

Got troops in the gulf while we cruise in our cars

Little loops like a belt, there we go, here we are

This is grass roots for fast food

And I just can’t think at the take of a spot

So whether I make it or not

I’ma take up space in this heart shaped box

I can make like a raven and watch

All the fakes as I prey on the flock

I’m in a place I can say what I want

All within this heart shaped box

Not afraid to play the hand that I got

When I’m facin' a straight on the flop

Go against the grain, claim your spot

All within this heart shaped box

All within this heart shaped box

Never did I once think

That life amounts to one thing

But when you die, it’s one thing

That turns your life into nothing

And lookin' back on the past through the rear defrost

Never thought I would last so I peered across

And knowin' that’s in the clear, now the fear is lost

'Cause what’s happenin' here is the beat of hearts

So, until somethings proven I’m losing

Faith in whatever they’re doing

Won’t take two steps in the movement

If my two cents is useless

What’s bent can’t pent up my juices

Not content with the trends of my music

Got my pen that’s my friend and I move it

To make sense outta all the confusion

Yeah, we need to start a revolution

Dedicated to makin' major improvements

Dedicated to flaggin' fakers as foolish

Dedicated to takin' down the rulers

Dedicated to seein' through illusions

Dedicated to beein' who you is

Dedicated to makin' the new blueprints

That are forever depicted as trueness

I can make like a raven and watch

All the fakes as I prey on the flock

I’m in a place I can say what I want

All within this heart shaped box

Not afraid to play the hand that I got

When I’m facin' a straight on the flop

Go against the grain, claim your spot

All within this heart shaped box

All within this heart shaped box