Bend Don't Break - Xavy Rusan

Look

From the place the pain is

Find my heart where the stain is

Find my hope in the hip hop

Keep my dope in a ziplock

All I need is a life I can love

Fuck a bitch and a wrist watch

I ain’t fuck wit the classroom

I’mma touch plenty cash soon

I been running through the middle of the mud

Puttin' pennies in a plug

I’mma probably need a bath soon

Tried to tell niggas last June

That I need my cake really ain’t no talk to it

Make that heat you can take that seat

'Cause I spit that flame and I walk through it

I live the love I wanna feel

I know you hurt, I came to heal

I keep the faith, I know it’s real

I never change, I know the deal

And you ain’t even really gotta tell me shit

Heard the voice divine and I got to work

Mixin' all I got into one big pot

Thinkin' 'bout this shit like it’s got to work

Somethin' got to give a nigga got to live

Even though these people don’t want me to

Feeling like everything that I been through

Is something like everything y’all been through

I know you ain’t always hard

Know you ain’t always tough

Know you ain’t all that rich

Probably can’t always stunt

Feel like it’s always somethin'

Feel like you always stuck

But if it don’t break you down

It’s only gon' build you up

Bitch I’m back and I’m buildin'

Only black in the buildin'

At a job that I can’t quit

Tryna face what I’m faced with

So I burn hella trees when I leave I’mma face it

Like I’m stuck in the matrix

Old soul with a new feel

One man but I’m too real

I be sayin' how you feel

And I came from your boot heel

Now I’m headed up tip top

My time on the wrist watch

Ain’t luck about it

Give 'em yo C.D.

'til it’s on TV

Niggas don’t really give a fuck about it

I really put my heart in that

I left the crib and brought it back

I gave 'em game, I taught 'em that

I finish where I started that (dead)

And people these days ain’t built like that

Can’t coach that shit I was born with

When it get rough that’s when I get tough

That’s when a fuck boy gon' forfeit

But there’s more to mine

And I’m more than fly

And I’m borderline on my greatness

And it’s your design but even more divine

Than your mortal mind is your patience I-

I know you ain’t always hard

Know you ain’t always tough

Know you ain’t all that rich

Probably can’t always stunt

Feel like it’s always somethin'

Feel like you always stuck

But if it don’t break you down

It’s only gon' build you up