50 Ways

DJ Quik
 Why you keep givin me cards I can't keep?
 I throw these two back, you throw me two more, they're so cheap
 I couldn't get the winning hand that I wanted in my sleep
 Cause when the dream get good, I get trampled by sheep
 Nightmares, even when I'm walkin in day
 I'm havin dreams that I'm runnin but there's smoke in the way
 And there's this man in a suit, he take a toke and he say,
 "You have a promise that you made and you broke it today."
 Now which part of this movie here did I just miss?
 Did I really sell my soul to this big red bitch?
 I don't think what you got to offer is really enough
 For cars sex and houses, money and stuff
 I'd rather be broke and own nothin but piece of mind
 and a Benz, and a house, and a nine-deuce-nine
 on top, help me out before I sink the boat
 There's gotta be more than 50 ways to keep afloat
 Cause I feel like I'm suffocatin, I can't breathe
 I wanna go, but I'm too afraid to leave
 Take me with you Mausie, I know you're seein somethin grand
 as you fade away, and you gently release my hand
 And it shook my balance, cause you ain't no more alive
 You think I'd see you, if I chewed this 45?
 Oh I'd be the first person poppin three, droppin me
 to the abyss, but I miss, what's stoppin me?
 I got the pressures of the WORLD on my little back
 My nerves are turnin into jelly and I'm bout to crack
 You think I'm cheatin on my homies, by holdin back?
 No I really protect them all because the truth is wack
 Forever bars and forever scars
 Bein trapped and dyin young makes forever stars
 Tell me why am I so hesitant?
 And the way life's goin, looks like when hell comes, I'ma be a resident
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 DJ Quik
 They tell me Quik, suck it up, I'm supposed to
 But me and Mausberg was closer than most knew
 It ain't dramatized, and it ain't a fuckin act
 when you're traumatized, and it ain't no turnin back
 When you're so connected, and it's hard to keep your focus
 When you're so affected, and it's hard to love again
 When you're so neglected - suck it up, I'm 'posed to
 That ain't easy for somebody you're close to, shit
 See your homey in a coffin is so wicked and vivid
 It's gon' be harder on all of us, cause we gon' relive it
 Over and over, drunk or sober, from October to October
 I steadily feel like I'm gettin knocked over
 And all the money in the world, don't make it better
 And a whole bottle of alcohol, don't make it wetter
 With a blur and a slur I'm still callin ya name
 And on top of this drama you add fame? Wild
 But when you start to bubble then your friends they spite you
 And if you go to church, then hip-hop won't like you
 I feel like a giant on a worldwide stage
 but at the same time trapped in a real tight cage
 With no way out, I play out, then I come back
 Cause there's an unwritten law that says I can't be wack
 So I put on my game face, go back to the same place
 Only to realize that y'all ain't got the same taste
 Even with somethin new, they look at you cold
 And without a hot face, consider you old
 And leavin me stressed and broken-hearted
 How could I be finished with West coast rap? I helped start it!
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