Lessons Engraved

See, young niggas trying to get old And old niggas trying to get young I ask Christ to be real to me and reveal himself to me so I can learn more about Him My deepest fear isn't that I'm inadequate Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure Just because you deserve this doesn't mean they're gonna give it to you Sometimes you gotta take what's yours, Coach Carter I get on my knees and pray cus' I been blessed to breathe today Now promise that I be the truest stuck inside this game All these lessons been engraved and I'm just ducking incarceration Cus this system got it planted make it hard for us to breathe Long live my brother Blake, he ain't deserve to meet his grave To see his momma cry, it brought us all so much pain I remember elementary peewee handing off them plays And all these lessons been engraved up in this game we play Yeah, yeah See I then learned a couple things and all these lessons been engraved See I then learned a couple things and now I take it to the brain I then learned a couple things along this path it come with pain Dishonesty, deceit, I hate this shit is in our veins Praying up above I'm hoping for to see a change Praying up above I hope for see these better days Some days I let it get away it's stunting on my growth Reflections be the best, we always getting through the most And all this time is taken by some urges and it's ghost Where my conscious going promote To medicate and ease the pain Let my comfort be in vein And now I wonder where I be Sit back and then we fade, wishing for a rainy day And watch for what you wishing, cus' you get it then we plea, I gotta hustle And not for me I got a family counting on me I don't even get to meet, I gotta hustle And not for me I got family counting on me I don't even get to see (that's how it be) You wanna take me out the game, but imma leave for what I came Here to let my soul speak I don't fear that we inadequate, not measured up to be But a chance is what I take and failure creeping closer, peep And a chance is all it take to be the next up biggest thing And a change is all it take for you to lose them finer things Dirty game, dirty game, boy you better not say no name Couple bullets to the brain for some grams and some change, dirty game Dirty game who referee, whistle blow that talk is cheap I been trying find a different path of what this life portrays Shout out the OG's, that went and paved the way for me They showed me how this thing could be, I'm blessed eternally But these demons try to take my joy, and leave me worsening I don't fear to be inadequate not measured up to be Sometimes it's getting scary, my potential getting steep And they told me sign the dotted line, this ownership I pride I told em I'll be fine, and now we repping SVE I never sign the dotted line cus' in this ownership I pride Taught to never fall in line and now we repping SVE Cus' I'm hoping for hope, seem like life is a joke Playgrounds for our soul, or where I'm hoping for hope Now we breathe a dirty game, and all these lessons been engraved And now we fight like MMA Now we breathe a dirty game, and all these lessons been engraved And now we fight like MMA You wanna take me out the game, but imma leave for what I came Imma let my soul teach You wanna take me out the game, but imma leave for what I came Imma let my soul speak And now I let my soul speak And now I let my soul speak (spoke)