Pain - Diamond D/A.G..mp3

[00:00.000][Intro: Louis Farrakhan sample]
[00:05.501]Brothers, brothers, we all in pain
[00:12.809]The man of God, he got his Bible but he's in pain
[00:16.163]The Muslim, he got his Qu'ran, he's in pain
[00:24.312][Verse 1: A.G.]
[00:24.600]I was born in the middle of the darkness
[00:27.285]Where the hopeless turn to heartless
[00:29.717]So I wrote this, consider this God's gift
[00:32.016]A shining light, overcome the hardships
[00:34.679]Lucky for the chance to do my dance
[00:37.301]Big L in Amsterdam, fell in love in France
[00:39.989]Lovers in Japan, catch me if you can
[00:42.518]A world tour with Diamond my man
[00:45.402]See me on the Berri Can
[00:46.902]Spread hope to every man related to the struggle
[00:51.234]It's a jungle, sometimes it make me wonder
[00:53.935]About the violence and the hunger
[00:55.696]So I speak about the blunders, try to teach the younger
[00:58.768]Dancing in the rain, motivated by the thunder
[01:01.417]I'm designed to hear tear drops
[01:04.403]And repeat it when the snare's chopped
[01:05.886][Break: Louis Farrakhan]
[01:07.605]All of us are in pain
[01:12.754]And do you know, brothers
[01:15.710]When you're in pain
[01:18.702]Your brain releases hormones
[01:24.286]That actually can deaden pain
[01:27.262][Verse 2: Chino XL]
[01:29.326]I'm feeling sentimental over this monumental instrumental
[01:31.605]Hoping that I don't offend you with my murder menu
[01:34.037]I'm spitting afflicted non-fiction in the venue
[01:36.174]Any likeness to persons living or dead are coincidental (Nah)
[01:39.105]You ain't gotta be a higher scholared psychologist
[01:41.937]To realise they've replaced good journalists with gossip columnist
[01:44.173]Young men in colleges wearing their pants androgynous
[01:47.120]I stay high surrounded by more greenery than botanists
[01:49.569]I ain't after fame, tell a friend to tell a friend
[01:52.229]I'm after words like the end of the end
[01:54.862]They try to stop me every way that they can
[01:57.077]But lyric fans try to tell 'em Chino's pen will live to kill again
[02:00.446]For years, hated myself, duct taped my mouth
[02:03.223]It's weird, cried so much, my tear ducts dried out
[02:05.998]Aristotle be startled to find out which part of my heart is gone
[02:08.774]So many sacrificed a lot so we can ride on this art form
[02:09.966][Break: Louis Farrakhan]
[02:12.726]But as long as you, as a man, lay down at night and dream about your greatness
[02:21.890]But you are never able to manifest how great you are
[02:27.110][Verse 3: Chino XL]
[02:33.598]Hip-hop saved my life from a childhood that was violent
[02:35.543]Chianardo DiCaprio escaping out of Shutter Island
[02:38.281]My writings Poseidon that landed me in an insane asylum
[02:40.661]Deciding what I should rhyme about it or to keep it private
[02:43.657]Sometimes I find it hard to breath like Colorado's climate
[02:46.209]Mind so fluid that it could rival B-Real's hydroponic
[02:48.661]Lyric Jesus, lungs are bionic, sicker than violent vomit
[02:51.798]Wordsmith on the front line while y'all just stand behind it
[02:54.566]Rewind it compared to churches' conscious controversies
[02:56.808]My words clutch your heart like old white racist women clutching their purses
[02:59.718]When I retire, will rap forget me, kinda like a '60s hippie
[03:03.086]Or beg me to come back like Prince on Darling Nikki
[03:04.918]I remember seeing A.G. and Finesse freestyle
[03:07.397]Wishing that could be me up there, but I was just a juvenile
[03:10.177]In time I'd become what I'd die for
[03:12.229]Even the Pope can give up his religion but I can't let hip-hop go
[03:15.310][Outro: Louis Farrakhan sample]
[03:16.034]The pain of being non-productive
[03:20.485]Makes you seek pleasure that keeps you non-productive
[03:26.310]Look at it, look at it, brothers
[03:30.286]Each one of you is in pain
[03:36.363]We in pain, brothers
[03:41.518]We live with constant pain
[03:45.765]Nobody knows our pain but God and us
[03:52.792]And you know deep down inside, you are as great
[03:58.238]As any man of greatness that you've heard about, read about or seen in real life
[04:05.333]You know you are as great as any one of them, possibly greater