Ted Roe - 20/20 lyrics

With a, gun in my face
I flashback on the lives
That I managed to encounter
How we traded our vibes
Split second, saw the score
This can't be how I die?
I saw it clear in the back of my mind
No lie and
These are the things that I remembered
Calvary: How to be in
Private school and ghetto
Class of 99, we had our eyes on the medal
Had my mom married Geppetto
I'd still hold the control
Elementary: programming our minds into a hole
But learned to seek out the soul of a man
And expose it
Mixed race clan, in photos, I've posed with
White kids, Mexicans, Arabs, Africans
Both light skins and brothers
Who were blacker


Then, 9th grade I waxed into
The mind of mobster
Fed from the strains on the
Love from my father
So I learned to be silent in
My suffering like a martyr
Niggas bout the pie
Til they realize you can bake
But if we slicing up the Sqrilla
I don't care which slice you take
Without vision
Saw my fate was a maze I won't escape
And all was fine in my mind, until I seen it
That the fruit of creation is
The attraction to Venus
So lean in to contemplate and find
The meaning in between it
Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers
Starburst, Skittles, Now & Laters
Party Favors
Save the gold coins from Chuck E cheese
Now grown, and run to Vegas
Cuz we on a chase for paper
But this Caesar's, not the playground
They will rape you out your sleeves
Break you to your knees
For those G's like Pesci
They say the world's not cold if
You keep a colder Pepsi
But we're messy and selfish
For steak and shellfish
Most will metaphorically
Eat your face for breakfast
Snatch you out that necklace
Lexus and Presidents
A new order coming to the world
It's getting evident
All the while, we never quit
In-spite of what we're dealing with
But if we all stopped today, we kill it
Right?
As I proceed with these dreams of being Diddy
Seems like such a waste when
Our economy is shitty
When I'm low and look for pity
Not an hour from my city
Mr gordy did the same thing
With Motown over 50 years ago
And here's a flow ahead of it's development
SWAMP Up! Natural growth is what I represent
Pop recommended that I watch
The Earth revolve
Because the answers stay the same for
How our problems should be solved
So as I'm steady on the job
The world keeps turning
Bopps are still bopping and the
Blunts are still burning
A man like me can only
Be concerned with bigger pictures
Meanwhile, everyday another
Obstacles delivered
I struggle to remember all the
Things that he said, like
"Life is like a Y
The left road will leave you dead" and
"When you meet a lady
Choose her brain over her bed"
"You will know what they mean
Pay attention how it's said"
We're eye to eye: he's so serious
I'm curious what could make a father look
And sound so furious
He grew delirious, I grew to understand
That he'd given me the tools that
I need to be a man
I've tried to recover all that
Slipped out of my hands but sometimes
It's best to drop it and reanalyze your plan
In the quest for grands
You will lose and gain plenty
Enemies and friends
You shall match and meet many
Keep your eyes on HIM and
HE won't lead you astray hindsight is 20
20, learn a lesson everyday
And when you fall
You pray for the strength to try again
And the wisdom to know better
So the next time, you will win
Lots of fun in sin
Until they send you the bill
The charges that you must accept
And some still go on your will
Generational: and hate is so, prevalent
Ignore it choose your path, don't look
Back, just cruise, never floor it
And if you can't explore it
Then it wasn't for you
Just define what it is that you do
And stay true