Struggle
Lyrics by Cavalier
Verse One:
There's plenty of dreams in the city, so count your lucky starsduck a charge, fuck a drama, pull ups on the monkey barsIn the A.M., prayers, amens, hard days begin playing oddsor playin ya part waitin.From the start, we live chasin anything that'll stopour hearts from achin, plus you either cake or you starvewe war wit Satan cause we gods, its eitherback-breakin labor, crack slingin, or rats caged in a boxWith no tools we move, "just do it", get through itIt's cold fusion, gun shots to soul musicFor us whateva we choose, there's no excusesno matter whats been provin, there's no solutionsI noticed dude, my father's age, moving for loose changewe shared food, contemplated a few thangsHe said he maxed out in Cayuga. Didn't ask whythought if I was goinna spaz out in the futurecause its a struggle

All we do struggle all day, day STRUGGLE STRUGGLE X3
all we do struggle all day, day...

Verse Two:
They marvel at what we build cause we're resiliant Same killers puttin dinner for their children Trynna cocoa leave-io our way up out the system Rap on a third grade level, but still brilliant We ill but we shining Riding it tough in the roughest, we're the diamond cut cant scuff off-the-cuffles, we be fighting Suspects in handcuffs, Caged bird with his feathers ruffled Still flying The curse and the blessing, the worst and unpleasant serve for you to measure your nerve to get tested There's plenty ways on this learning curve to get "F's" Street credit or school cred both collect debt Ni**a flex through it, the Hester brothers do it Staff Ace carries the weight where the wing's tatooed in Them the shoes only real men could cruise in Even when you're snoozing, you're paying your dues Check dude caught two in his arm for snoring On the Island's dormitorium, that was just the warning sign Peep the time our struggle is all day, so I hug it My struggle my cuz-o, it's all gravy, I love it Something from nothing, that be our way Try to crumble on our hustle, we embrace it; thorough Smoke drifts over my borough, it's set ablaze Took the shitty end of the sticks and fire's what we made In the Struggle

Chorus

Verse Three:
All in all, what could I really say to a mother Who put her baby to rest cause of ways we was brought up And her daddy worked a grave shift to pave a way for her and now the cold world left my homegirl murdered These moments challenge your talk of trynna be a soldier I'm watching my highschool love cry, but we're grown-ups Just when you have it on coast to get closer We pull each other up and we get pulled over She tried to hold hands with her man through the struggle He got lost in the shuffle and it caused him to fumble But I can't judge, a man doesn't Can't doubt faith, won't aboutface when the hand's ugly For this to go down the night I first recorded this For me it proved a sign of this life, there's more to it If its from the heart, do I let it bleed? Or let it stop the beat? Tiesha, we hope to see you in a dream Didn't mean to put ya name in a song, It's just my way to keep your memory strong It's like the struggle follow us wherever we're going Let it be known, heaven is home it's the evidence we're chosen, in the struggle... Keep going...