Cypress Hill, Mike Shinoda - Carry Me Away lyrics

I was an outcast, outsider, trouble maker
A lost soul, outta control, in danger
Didn't have a care in the world
My feelings were numb
Never showing emotion, it's easy for some

I don't know how it happened
How I got to this point
But, I needed a way out
I was stuck in a ploy
I needed another path or I'd self destruct
I was down on my luck, my head was so

A menace runnin' the streets is what I was
Holdin' my heat and rollin'
With the serious thugs
You couldn't tell me a thing
I was like my brother
Words went in one ear and out the other

Slangin' and bangin' with a
Chip on my shoulder an insane in the brain
Certified street soldier
So close to the grave, you at an early age
Can't tell you the price I've paid

Oh, the sky overhead
It's like a canvas of grey
I don't know how much time
I'll be given to stay
From the first spring to light till
The end of the day
I'm just livin' my life till
They come carry me away

I've been there in LA nights in
The block where I came up
My pops used to hate when
We hanged with them bangers
Guess he knew one day that we'll become us
That's just how it is when you
Live where we come from

"Fight, don't run!" is the motto we live by
Get 'em on the ground and stomp
A mind about ten times
Sure we was just kids back then
I had no remorse for what we did back then

Six of us, one call, we'd all pack in
Hit the strip and go and
Get the shit crackin'
Gun wars and drug deals, I seen 'em happen
When I started losin' homeboys
I wasn't laughin'

I looked all around and seen
None of 'em there
That's when I figured out that nobody cared
If we lived or die
We'll just get high and ride
And I wasn't gonna let this
Happen one more time

Oh, the sky overhead
It's like a canvas of grey
I don't know how much time
I'll be given to stay
From the first spring to light till
The end of the day
I'm just livin' my life till
They come carry me away

My mother would stand for me
Every step of the way she didn't judge me
She told me I'd win some day
When I was at my lowest, when I had no focus
She pulled me out the gutter
Said I wasn't hopeless

Every night she prayed for me I
Was out on the street
Chillin' on the corner with the
Hand on my heat
Eyes open wide for the pigs and foes
It's an every day hazard when
You hustle for dough

So many nights I didn't come home
She thought the worst
Maybe somebody shot me down
Without any remorse
Maybe I hurt somebody and I
Was stuck in a cell
Well, I regret all those times that
I put her through hell

When I reflect back on those days
My heart aches
And everybody I lost or let down
I wish I could take it
All back and make it better but I can't
So I try to make amends and be there
Through thick and thin

Oh, the sky overhead
It's like a canvas of grey
I don't know how much time
I'll be given to stay
From the first spring to light till
The end of the day
I'm just livin' my life till
They come carry me away

Come carry me away come carry me away
Come carry me away come carry me away