Cousin of Death

(Everlast)
 Glory fades and glory days ain't always what they seem
 Give all I got and make my salaat and dream my broken dreams
 I crawl inside, ball up and hide, tuck my pain away
 And hope to God I fall into a sleep where I can stay
 We all got bills to settle, we all got a price to pay
 And if I make it through the night I can fight another day
 They say it's better to burn out than it is to fade away
 I just hope to God I can fall into a sleep where I can stay
 (Slaine)
 It was a couple of years ago that I started becoming numb
 No one could understand where all my words were coming from
 Having visions of a nine-to-five, a wife, a blunt, a son
 Of a life of hustle getting by with some of the running gun
 Is it best to be a crumb? My ex says he's a bum
 Lashing out in violence whenever my destiny it hung
 In the balance, rum, I'm drinking gallons, some think that my flows
 Are more poetic than the poems of Edgar Allen Poe
 But I know that I'm at a challenge though
 I can hold an old Calico to my dome and let my talents go
 Shit, I spent my whole life around the violence so
 I planted seeds of hate oh I let my habits grow
 I slept with the homeless, I copped with the fiends
 Lost the love inside my heart, I even forgot what it means
 Seen the ripest nights turn into the rottenest schemes
 But through it all I have never forgotten my dreams
 When the gutters fill with blood that's spilled from friends that pass away
 And memories of eulogies while standing by their graves
 Just trying to survive we wind up living lives like slaves
 I hope to God I can fall into a sleep where I can stay
 We all got beef to settle, we all got demons to slay
 And if I pray all through the night I can fight another day
 They say it's better to burn out than it is to fade away
 I just hope to God I can fall into a sleep where I can stay
 (Ill Bill)
 Rest in peace to my homie Sob
 I stand before an altar of open sepultures and coffins
 I heard Javier got killed, it didn't seem real
 With an army of goons drinking straight vodka to deal
 We live and die by the gun, wear our hearts on our sleeves
 Even though our compassion's destined to die on the streets
 What's left over a cold hollow murder machine
 With an appetite for malevolence, perversion, and greed
 When one of us dies we don't really learn anything
 Outside the funeral doing bumps, burning trees
 Plotting revenge, crying over fallen angels
 Sometimes your friends die the most awkward strangers
 I can't lie, sometimes this life makes me a stranger to myself
 But I'm pulling myself together, it's bigger than just me
 As I spit this bear witness to truth
 My unborn seed listens while I spit in the booth
 Glory fades and glory days ain't always what they seem
 Give all I got and make my salaat and dream my broken dream
 I crawl inside, ball up and hide, tuck my pain away
 And hope to God I fall into a sleep where I can stay
 We all got bills to settle, we all got a price to pay
 And if I make it through the night I can fight another day
 They say it's better to burn out than it is to fade away
 I just hope to God I can fall into a sleep where I can stay