Rain Water-Brother Ali

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[00:00.00]Brother Ali: Rain Water - Atmosphere
[00:25.83]Uh into motherf**kin' thin air
[00:28.70]Like it's never even been there
[00:30.84]My joy done left me y'all
[00:40.40]Sh*t I never hang my head man
[00:42.36]CHORUS
[00:44.16]And God's rain water flow through the same gutter
[00:46.32]That we walk today gotta stay brave brotha
[00:49.25]Keep you your lip stiff keep your fist clenched
[00:51.74]At times you gotta kick your way through this b**ch
[00:54.32]And I can't stop feelin' guilty smilin'
[00:56.80]A wise man once told me that every cloud has a silver linin'
[01:00.18]I wanted to believe him but its a trick to find em'
[01:03.29]When the people around me continue dyin'
[01:05.54]Grandad was in the twilight of his life
[01:08.34]When he closed his eyes tight and opened his wrists wide
[01:10.90]What make a tenth round fighter with a winning score
[01:13.77]Decide he need to throw the towel before the whistle blow
[01:16.46]Maybe I'll never know but I inherited his poetic soul
[01:20.06]So the sybolism's yet to show
[01:21.99]Is life so obscene that death's more serine
[01:24.55]Or was an old auther trying to write his own closing scene
[01:27.35]Nothin stings like knowin that the woman who gave me this life is being eaten from the inside
[01:32.13]I thought we'd never make sh*t right
[01:34.48]I wish I'd have viewed it once clear
[01:36.20]Before you were done here
[01:37.64]That's two in one year that I let leave here
[01:40.38]Lovin' me without shedding one single tear
[01:43.19]Either I'm one of the strongest people left
[01:45.50]Or ya'll should stone me for even trying to steal breath
[01:48.39]And God's rain water flow through the same gutter
[01:51.07]That we walk today gotta stay brave brotha
[01:53.93]Keep you your lip stiff keep your fist clenched
[01:56.22]At times you gotta kick your way through this b**ch
[01:59.03]And God's rain water flow through the same gutter
[02:01.89]That we walk today gotta stay brave brotha
[02:04.14]Keep you your lip stiff keep your fist clenched
[02:06.89]At times you gotta kick your way through this b**ch
[02:09.84]They say"Sh*t scrapper you all by yourself ain't ya"
[02:13.40]Damn straight I got a jail cell nature
[02:15.60]Been boxed up but I've never been settled in
[02:18.29]Then got tough started developing leather skin
[02:21.12]I learned to make that face that tells predators
[02:23.28]It's better to reassess just who you bout to wrestle with
[02:26.32]I'm on one like the first kick drum of the beat
[02:29.45]Clear my lungs spit blood on the street
[02:31.83]They tellin me we got nothing to fear but fear itself
[02:34.83]But I fear I have no human fear left
[02:37.08]Someday I'm gonna wanna peel back these calluses
[02:40.14]And really feel life again and that where my challenge is
[02:42.82]I've been kickin and bitin for so long
[02:45.02]That when they throw me a rescue rope I'll be too weary to hold on
[02:48.79]And see the light So I sing through the tears
[02:51.11]In the key of life the way a wounded ego might
[02:53.38]And God's rain water flow through the same gutter
[02:55.64]That we walk today gotta stay brave brotha
[02:58.39]Keep you your lip stiff keep your fist clenched
[03:01.07]At times you gotta kick your way through this b**ch
[03:04.06]And God's rain water flow through the same gutter
[03:06.49]That we walk today gotta stay brave brotha
[03:09.05]Keep you your lip stiff keep your fist clenched
[03:11.88]At times you gotta kick your way through this b**ch
[03:14.75]BRIDGE
[03:16.24]My joy done left me ya'll
[03:17.99]She don't show her face around these parts
[03:20.42]Every time she come she gets chased off
[03:23.42]So she stays distant
[03:25.55]Verse 3
[03:25.42]If it weren't for me squintin he wouldn't know the sun was out
[03:28.57]I hate every word that come out of his f**kin mouth
[03:31.24]Ladies treat him special don't know nothin bout him
[03:34.10]If they saw what his wife see they wouldn't fuss about him
[03:36.54]He can't do sh*t right but rap and make babies
[03:39.03]And babies need daddy at home consistent
[03:41.47]But rap keep daddy on the road religious
[03:44.34]So even in my two loves my soul is so conflicted
[03:47.65]My son came into this world innocent
[03:49.94]And he deserves everything that needs to live in it
[03:52.87]And this home I made for him is broken
[03:55.06]I'm hopin his love for me will never grow thin
[03:57.85]It hurts daddy to know and to know when
[04:00.49]You were cryin at the hospital I'm out tryin to rock a show
[04:03.68]I made a vow that we'd never be broke again
[04:06.17]And I'd never be a burden on another friend
[04:08.73]So when I've sweated on my farewell stage
[04:11.48]When I've wrote my last hook in my last rhyme book
[04:14.10]When I get the last nod of approval from my family
[04:16.84]This is the man I have to be
[04:19.64]And God's rain water flow through the same gutter
[04:21.58]That we walk today gotta stay brave brotha
[04:24.32]Keep you your lip stiff keep your fist clenched
[04:27.20]At times you gotta kick your way through this b**ch
[04:30.31]And God's rain water flow through the same gutter
[04:32.50]That we walk today gotta stay brave brotha
[04:35.12]Keep you your lip stiff keep your fist clenched
[04:38.10]At times you gotta kick your way through this b**ch
[04:40.84]And God's rain water flow through the same gutter
[04:43.36]That we walk today gotta stay brave brotha
[04:45.91]Keep you your lip stiff keep your fist clenched
[04:48.88]At times you gotta kick your way through this b**ch
[04:52.49]And God's rain water flow through the same gutter
[04:54.55]That we walk today gotta stay brave brotha
[04:56.80]Keep you your lip stiff keep your fist clenched
[04:59.65]At times you gotta kick your way through this b**ch
[05:14.37]Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone You ever felt that way