Non Phixion, Cenophia Mitchell - Say Goodbye to Yesterday lyrics

Yo, 365 days a year
We preoccupy self to find life's true meaning
We indulge irrelevant contradiction
Contradiction which steps up growth
Live life each day like it
Could be your last, yo

I'm from a place where some mothers
Sell they babies for crack
Where young cats buy gats, shoot
And never look back
Where the whites sit with the whites and
The blacks sit with the blacks
But somehow we unite through
The culture of rap
I'm from Brooklyn, word to the Dodgers
Russian massages
Where thugs bust guns and sons
Are raised without they fathers
We do away with has-beens
Rock the latest fashion
The rule's never rat
What you want to know or who's asking?
Just some habit's of highly effective MCs
Y'all is pussy rap
My speech made you weak in the knees
But talk's cheap
I'm straight from the streets
I'm action-oriented when I'm screamin'
"Kill corrupt police!" i read books
Reap intelligence to compromise my bad looks
I roam with godbodies and crooks
But when I rest my head at night
I'm just happy that I made it
'Cause someone could take your life
Be it my friends or my neighbors

Whether you police or a thug on the streets
Whether you look for beef or
You livin in peace whether you back down or
You stand strong bold
Yo, we never know what tomorrow gon' hold

We can live today
But we're not promised tomorrow
We can pass away, say goodbye to yesterday
We can live today
But we're not promised tomorrow
We can pass away, say goodbye to yesterday

It's either me or you in this world
'cause I be tryin' to cope
I'm lookin' for answers, but still
I'm comin' up broke
They supply the fed tops, smack
The guns and the coke
Who shot Lennon and Malcolm X
One in his throat
I'm an old soul at home but
Probably young as the Pope
Reincarnated as a prophet through
A symbol of hope
I move through the projects, lights, rhythm
And smoke
Idiom quotes, somebody said religion's a joke
Buried my man at 18
The cancer took him in months
He died before he lived
But once gone I felt touched
My old earth followed in '91, 6 months apart
Project stress, blackouts
And walks in the park
People change 'cause when I look
Back I feel strange
Goin' through old flicks, our days numbered
Turning the page i can't go back
We learn to live with hate and respect
A tale from the heart prevail
Through the pain and regret

Whether you police or a thug on the streets
Whether you look for beef or
You livin' in peace whether you back down or
You stand strong bold
Yo we never know what tomorrow gon' hold

We can live today
But we're not promised tomorrow
We can pass away, say goodbye to yesterday
We can live today
But we're not promised tomorrow
We can pass away, say goodbye to yesterday