Trife Diesel - Blind Man lyrics

Blind man standing on the corner
Blind man standing on the corner

Yo, the blind man on the corner
That was begging for change
He passed away to cancer and his
Lungs spread to his brain
He saw the world through his dark optics
Studied Allah's knowledge
Even though he got high off his narcotics
Canteen full of booze
Stay drunk off the cheap Vodka
In his hey day I heard he
Was a live heat popper
Valentine's meat chopper
Created a street opera
Back in 1983, he had the police popped up
His rep was legendary
Old school like bread and jelly
In the course of an hour
He robbed like seven deli's
It's a lift, but some people said he was rich
And in one of these dirt fields
Is where he buried his chicks
Nobody knew he was sick
We just thought he was a schiz'
Especially, we he stripped and
Showed shorty his dick
To the old heads who stood on the block
The hood'll miss you
Only til the next blind man take over ya spot

Blind man standing on the corner
(Standing on the corner
Joking with the shorties
Telling 'em hood stories, now he's a goner)
Blind man standing on the corner
(Standing on the corner
Joking with the shorties
Telling 'em hood stories, now he's a goner)

Some of the greatest entertainers were
Blind in our times
Plus they had to grind harder in
Order for them to shine look at Ray Charles
He was one of the illest musicians
He taught himself how to play the piano
With his condition
Even though he had millions
He also had an addiction
When he was high, he wrote his best music
In my opinion numerous awards
Number one hit's on the billboard
Now hip hop artists
Sample his music when they record
There was others like Willie
McTell and Stevie Wonder eddie Lang
The first blind white man to do his numbers
Willie Johnson
The great Art Tatum and Sonny Terry
Were the first pioneers
Who influenced the blues heavy
Just imagine, plucking them strings
Beating with your hands touring the land
Without never seeing ya fans
That's a gift from God
That we may never just understand
How a blind man became a composer
And lead the band

Blind man standing on the corner
(Standing on the corner
Joking with the shorties
Telling 'em hood stories, now he's a goner)
Blind man standing on the corner
(Standing on the corner, whoever knew
That one day
That you would blow up and be a performer)