Fear - CunninLynguists

Fear is nothing more than a feeling

You feel hot

You feel hungry

You feel angry

You feel afraid

Fear can never kill you

Now who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?

That’s if you can admit it if you get that shook

Cause everyone’s been in a bit of a pinch that looked a bit bad

Couldn’t predict that you would live past where you stood

I’m scared of God coming back, asking if I’ve read his big black book

While I’m mid-splash up in a bitch' ass in a bath room

Nothing gets stashed if you live crass under a glass roof

I’m afraid, but I act natural.

On tours I can’t sleep

Hoping there’s nothing we crash through, while on board in the back seat

Since I nearly lost my life and my wife in a taxi

The echos of the impact retroactively attack me

I’m afraid of having a baby that lacks feet

Afraid of rugged terrain and plunging a plane head first in a vast sea

I’m afraid of any school-aged child that packs heat

Or the feeling of not being able to wake up from a bad dream

I’m afraid of wasting years of my life on this rap scene

Or Seeing my mother pass without grasping the brass ring

So many tragedies happen in mass on the flat screen

But it’s never as real as hearin' your family’s last screams

Cause god didn’t make us to die!

(so what?)

So fear is an interim instinct given to keep us alive

So when you feel the chills reel up your spine

And the adrenaline fills you, don’t stress

Cause fear can still kill you

I’m known as a brave guy

But to say I’m fearless is to say lies

Some I might have until my days die

My fears are few, but powerful

When the days done and your demons come to devour you and kill if you allow

them to

Feelings I’m familiar with known as a grown man

Heart pounding will make your spine shudder like a cold hand

Nothing logical about it, wild, irrational, makin' your mind clouded

Can you explain yours?

I doubt it

Why do thoughts of failure make me uptight

I don’t swim

Cause the fear drowning wakes me up nights

I don’t win

Stare the nightmare in the eye when I stood at my pop’s grave

Was not afraid of death, but with his I was not brave

He was proud but didn’t live to see me a make hot stage

I cry to see his pride when I rock and got praised

That’s why I spot days, it’s more than a clock’s hours

Refusal let the fear block power

Ay yo, ay yo, ay yo I’m 23 started writing in my late-teens

Got with PMD’s Hitsquad when I was 18

Thinkin' I’m the nicest

My first song of great means

Naive, thinkin' I’m one step away from this great dream

Had plans for the top even had fans on my jock

Listenin' to my old shit, I know why my manager stopped callin'

Gotta take advantages, not often niggas want to put you on

I need a hand just to stop fallin'

Fall away from my dreams

And I didn’t go to college cause your boy was supposed to go all the way to the

green

All the way to the scene of Biggie’s performance on ‘The Show'

Imagine I saw my face on the screen, damn

I try to tell myself «I won’t fail»

But if I do ain’t no «Oh well»

What the fuck do I do if I don’t sell?

I’m scared that I’m wasting my life being Joe Schmoe with no dough

I’mma take a .44 and I’m wasting my life, fuck that

You may think I’m frontin', but let me tell you I ain’t scared of nothin'

And nowadays you always gotta be prepared for somethin'

Cause life is a game that we play

The chips fall where they may but most times you don’t land where you want to

There were days when I would have said I was afraid of heights

When I was younger I couldn’t go to sleep without the lights

But when I got over it I really started noticin'

We only fear a situation when we ain’t controllin' it

I would have seen more scary movies if somebody woulda told a kid

That when you turn the TV off the monsters go away

You know they say there’s nothing to fear, but being afraid

And I’m afraid I never seen the difference being scared made

Except for opportunities to advance going to waste

I never ran so you ain’t got to worry about me giving a chase

I don’t give a fuck

If I’m cornered with a barrel to my face

And niggas claiming that they really ain’t afraid to catch a case

That’s bullshit

Cause a nigga that was ‘bout it would’ve pulled it

And the fear in his eyes say he ain’t go not bullets

Then, once I realize that he ain’t gonna do shit

Be afraid, I got one too dog, and I ain’t afraid to use it