AZ, Nature, Nas - Time lyrics

At the ripe age of 24, I done seen it all
Done it all
Some dreams stay fresh and some are spoiled
Dealin' with time, winter, spring, summer
Fall it's crazy changes
Is this that made me famous?
I come a long way from Timbs, minimum wages
Stockin' caps, summer jobs, pockets flat
It's funny how my childhood idols
Now be coppin' crack
I ain't knockin' that, unfortunately
Life's too short to see
It's only right we move
Accordingly at every second
I use to carry heavy weapons
Previously cocked
Tucked in my shirt for every session
But hold up, a 2-6 bid made me grow up
Came home to the same damn
Dreams with no luck
And half the clique's strong
The other half moved on
Some with new lives and new wives
Niggas live long
The foulest thing about time - it
Still ticks when you gone

For those who live the way I live
We came a long way
From wipin' cold outta eyelids
To rap's hottest
Smokin' lye, let track guide us
Remember back then before MAC-10's
Expensive bottles? Had a sick mind
Niggas taught me how to get mine
We'd often sip quarts
They get tossed at the spit line
To all niggas that the Lord seemed
To gip for their time
While we plan to live forev'
He had a different design is it safe to say
We all perish on the sacred day?
With my luck, soon as I reach the gate
They make me pay
Pray, minutes go by, Indigo high
The specialist, decked out dark specs
Finessin' it used to play catch-a-kiss
Same girls back then
Now, leave us messages, a whole lot
Travel to my old spot where we sold rock
Although it's trifle
Ain't nothin' changed, just like time
It's all a cycle

Yo, wake up to the world
Stay in charge of your dreams
Keep your vision, focus, get wise
Enlargen your cream marketin' schemes
So many in the dark is unseen
Caught in between
Perhaps rap was a fortunate thing
Forced to be king from hustlin'
Supportin' them fiends
Bustin' guns, I had no remorse as a teen
Rockin' birth stones, my first skid bid
Nurse the dome
It hurts to zone, now I've realized
I'm on this Earth alone
Time ticks, devilish mind design tricks
Leave you blind quick and cause
You to die behind shit
Mathematics, master 120, I'm Asiatic
Amazed with magic 'cause it's illusions
That made me savage
Life change once you establish the right game
Love the night rain
Found a new way to fight pain
Clocks never stop, it's all a race to the top
Tryin' to freeze time
That's why I iced the face of my watch