Blueprint, Illogic, Slug - Who Do You Love? (Adventures In Counter Culture ) lyrics

They used to look down on him
Just cause he was short
But despite his height he could still
Throw it down with force
So if he had a first
Love it was probably sports
Before divorced his old man would
Take him to the courts
It made him smile just to
Spend time with his dad
But after a little while the
Basketball was all he had
They use do call him fag
They neighborhood drama bad
He'd be out hooping late
Shooting j's till his mama mad
He made it look easy
Seemed like every shot was hit
But he can't enjoy cause he'd
Wonder where his papa's at
A lot of tears five years
Since he saw him last
But even then he's still picturing
Him smiling from the stands
Can't concentrate, grades start dropping fast
Can't pass his whole attitude is fuck a class
It's obvious he's got too much
Time on his hands
Fighting in the schoolyard going
Hard throwing hands
The other guy didn't have a chance
One big blow took him out and
Put him on his ass
He walked home not surprised
That he won again
Didn't know the paramedics came
With the ambulance so when the cops rolled
Up he didn't understand
Why a little scrap had 'em
Putting cuffs on his hands
The reason he was treated like a wanted man
Is 'cause the kid he knocked
Out never woke up again
Offered scholarships, every college hollering
They all wanted him but all he
Wanted was his father back
Now he's locked up and he
Never gonna ball again
Lost everything over something he
Would never have

Who do you love? Just let me know
Tell me how much how far you would go

And there he goes again
Yelling at the front door
"It's four o'clock in the morning
What you want boy?"
Grown kid locked out of his own crib
Cause the life he chose to live
Is making mom so sick
He crushed her, just a youngster
When she first discovered he sold drugs
To make the bucks work
Years of tears, fear of the police
It was relief when the kid became a tweak
She ran through the standard phases
The guilt, the anger
All the cracks in the pavement
She didn't have any time to raise him
And the boy just turned
Twenty-nine - a basehead
On the porch, sleeping on the floor
Sometimes you forget why you carrying a torch
Already stretched past what she can afford
That ain't your baby boy anymore
It's just a corpse

Hold on for your life and don't let go
Even though it's going nowhere
You won't let go it's suffocating
Trying to breathe but you won't let go
'Cause you know how much you love
It this is how you show
It's begging and pleading, please, let go
'Cause if you keep me trapped in
A box then I can't grow
You understand the necessity cause
You been there befo'
And that's exactly why deep in your
Heart you can't let go
You'd rather live for today
Then die for tomorrow
C'mon, loosen your grip and just let go
Your reality is paper thin so if you let go
You'll realize no escaping when
The machine gets broke just let go
Swan dive off the cliff and just let go
If you want what you're holding to
Live you gotta let go
A freedom only you can give
But you won't let go
How can someone that talks so
Fast walk so slow
Gave up your rib now emotion you borrow
Scared to live but not to inflict sorrow
You think you'd be alone again
If you just let go
'Cause that's what happened the last
Time you just let go
You watch it crumble before your eyes
This finds you depressed
But not surprised cause in your
Mind you can't let go
And as it slowly dies you realize
That each tear you cry
Wouldn't be a lie if you'd had just let go