Lyrics I Refuse Limitation (feat. Backbone).lrc Goodie Mob
[id: pshjdaea]
[ar: Goodie Mob]
[al: Still Standing]
[ti: I Refuse Limitation (feat. Backbone)]
[length: 06:01]
[00:02.78]One time
[00:11.75]Uh for these freaky hoes I lust
[00:13.54]But I’m still flickin’ ashes a lot of other motherfuckers snort dust
[00:17.19]But that’s they thang a lot of us fall victim somehow
[00:20.74]But that’s that game won’t try to explain from books to bricks
[00:25.21]Now I look, seen crooks and tricks caught up in the mix
[00:28.89]Of everyday in every way but the right
[00:31.55]I control the substance my people fiend for at night
[00:35.12]Lord knows I do wrong, sound like the same old song
[00:38.72]A lot of niggas singing homeboys conceal your weapons
[00:42.44]’Cause ain’t gonna be no smokin’ section in heaven
[00:46.08]No more be buckin’ yo luck seven eleven on the first roll
[00:49.64]Don’t let the streets rock and roll yo soul
[00:52.38]Swats GA by way of cascade heights
[00:55.94]Gunshots, roadblocks, sidewalks and ice
[00:58.64]Sold me out for 3.5 grams of neighborhood clout
[01:01.39]Now what the fucks we bout I’m back home from the bullshit
[01:04.09]Puttin’ in work, meanwhile others dug ditches and covered
[01:08.55]Themselves in dirt, one squirt and you locked down forever
[01:12.14]Can’t run from reality luring you closer and closer away
[01:15.71]To the same old traps, now you never learn from your mistakes
[01:20.23]So now you wear this ass whoopin’ wit’ pride, what side you on?
[01:23.96]It wasn’t no I in team, only in your dreams, saturated with schemes
[01:27.55]Yeah you right, God gonna deal wit’ ya fallin’ from his grace
[01:31.15]Rookie moves cops shift the game and 30 days
[01:36.50]I’m blessed in the hole but that’s till I go to the state federal
[01:41.06]Penitentiary, yeah I could a did my time standin’ on one feet
[01:45.50]But see I fucked up royally thought I was slick
[01:48.29]Them herpes-havin’ ass crackers changed my big check to six
[01:50.96]Times wit’ Dean Whitaker’s sermon of the day
[01:54.58]But when I go to sleep I don’t dream no more I just lay
[01:59.07]A wise man knows his limitations concrete, concrete like Greg Street
[02:08.12]Sufferin’ from a severe case of inner city blues
[02:11.72]I ain’t got no clues to which directions I need to choose
[02:14.47]This opportunity to gain is all I got to lose
[02:17.17]’Cause I just can’t settle for these streets shawty I refuse
[02:19.84]That’s the shit I like Lord got the door shot down to the pavement
[02:23.47]Remove yo hat under the ceiling of this building
[02:26.11]A rebuff from the usher of sorts because [Incomprehensible]
[02:29.76]Most strive for the diamonds and overlook the gems
[02:33.38]Got skimp wit yo bags boulders become shoulders to depend on
[02:36.97]Which way to explore reform, refrain, we can’t inflame
[02:41.45]Every thought you walk through the trails is hell
[02:44.23]Airborne for what clone me replace me wit’ me
[02:46.94]Another nation inside a nation out the land of Scots
[02:50.50]Suction cups to test tube layer of skin
[02:53.28]Supply the crust and we’ll mix the fruit
[02:55.04]Gun shows supplied me in the hour of need
[02:57.79]Watch ’em bleed Aryan nation be the dealer
[03:00.43]Now who’s the killer? Yeah, yeah, yup yup that’s the shit I like
[03:06.78]That’s the shit I like
[03:07.61]Uh puttin’ forth the effort to make a change
[03:10.36]Not doin’ a lot of talkin’ bout it, what’s yo game?
[03:13.95]You slippin’ you can’t never do that
[03:16.66]That’s when you get jacked for yo life over emotions runnin’ wild
[03:20.22]Like salamanders swimmin’ in southwest creeks
[03:22.95]Feelin’ incomplete, another story livin’ [Incomprehensible]
[03:26.63]You had it, now you lost it wasn’t worth it look what it costed
[03:32.02]Yo life young nigga
[03:32.94]Didn’t go out without a fight behind the gun trigger
[03:35.60]You better think fast or get swept off yo feet
[03:38.30]Nigga it hurts to see these drugs deteriorate
[03:41.91]The minds of knuckleheads that want to be base heads
[03:44.62]Don’t say I didn’t tell you ’cause you gonna see in the future
[03:48.23]I hope I don’t have to shoot you if you switch
[03:50.99]Went from hardcore to beggin’ like a bitch
[03:53.68]Revolutions good to bad hoods to rags, real niggas to fags
[03:56.37]What’s the news? But I refuse to lose
[03:59.95]Sufferin’ from a severe case of inner city blues
[04:02.60]I ain’t got no clues to which directions I need to choose
[04:05.33]This opportunity to gain is all I got to lose
[04:09.04]Now I just can’t settle for these streets shawty I refuse
[04:11.76]Well I woke up this mornin’ with the same frustration
[04:13.59]From situations like these got a call about some work
[04:16.28]From one of them temporary agencies
[04:18.00]No high school diploma or any college degrees
[04:20.79]I can’t enlist but they’ll draft me if there’s a war overseas
[04:23.46]Oh please, of course I can slice some Oz’s
[04:27.04]But see I’m one of those aspirin MC’s
[04:28.89]And uh bills are due so at times I’m doubtful and everyone disagrees
[04:32.50]But I’d rather struggle on my feet than to live on my knees
[04:35.13]So my uniform tight, workin’ all night at Mickey D’s
[04:37.80]Got about 90 dollars and some change after the government
[04:41.56]Get they fees, these minimum wages ain’t enough to feed my babies
[04:44.29]Purposely these limitations on black folks’ opportunities
[04:47.87]So I quit ’cause I’m tired of being one of those overworked
[04:50.59]Underpaid employees stop carin’ at all went on
[04:51.44]And did a few small burglaries
[04:53.20]It seems like my faith done turned into forgotten memories
[04:55.91]And I ain’t gettin’ away with nothing because I know He always sees
[04:58.69]But see right now I need to see how I can get this here dope sold
[05:01.32]I done stuffed in my pocket as many rocks as it can hold
[05:04.92]They gonna get high so I’m a get my money even though it’s freezin’ cold
[05:07.61]Now how many times you done heard this story told?
[05:10.33]Believe it or not, it’s some very intelligent junkies
[05:13.95]But dependencies is eatin’ away at they souls like disease
[05:16.60]Anyone can turn into somebody who covets and envies
[05:19.32]Unequal economics can easily make you some enemies
[05:22.02]And the crime rate never drops so the cops ride around in threes
[05:25.65]I knew he would have killed me if I did anything but freeze
[05:28.42]They found the rest of the dope in some nearby shrubberies
[05:31.16]In a dim lit room being questioned by these authorities
[05:33.80]And they gave me some time in correctional facilities
[05:37.49]And now my woman’s gotta take on a man’s responsibilities
[05:41.95]Year of Release: 1998