[00:26.82]It's a war on your TV screen every morning
[00:29.77]Not the war with the bombs and the helicopters swarming
[00:32.73]But the war for your soul, that's what everyone's ignoring
[00:35.80]It's a war going on
[00:38.67]Yeah, it's a war going on
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[00:43.39](I was just talking to the homie the other day man)
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[00:47.72][Verse 1: King Los]
[00:47.94]He said I'mma pump this ******' caine, pump this ******' caine
[00:50.84]Hug this block, tuck this ******' Glock, all you suckas lame
[00:53.83]This my spot, this my ******' spot, you know what I rep
[00:56.81]I go Deebo make my way up from a kilo on that step
[00:59.75]Thug to death, yeah I mean the death, let that pistol talk
[01:02.80]You say truce, me speaking no english, ******* go get some heart
[01:05.83]******* the law, ******* ******* the law, they can see me too
[01:08.76]******* a school, and the teacher too, they no teach the truth
[01:11.74]What's a pops, never had a pop, let that ratchet pop
[01:14.75]I'm too real, gave a fiend a pill for a Magnavox
[01:17.65]Man ******* we got, ******* we really got, but this gutter *******t
[01:20.64]All my *******s hug the strip and all my ******* love to strip
[01:23.68]So suck a *******, I got kids, and a baby mama too
[01:26.62]Yeah she work my ******g nerves like a baby mama do
[01:29.68]I be stressed, I be hella stressed, smoke a bunch of ******
[01:32.65]High for real, pop the pill and drop the Xanny in my lean
[01:35.64]I can scream, cause you just smile like everything is fine
[01:38.58]Hope is fun, when I grab my gun, come take your life or mine
[01:41.59]Suicide, yeah it's suicide, life is suicide
[01:44.55]******* your right or wrong, the *******t that I been on is do or die
[01:47.59]If I do I die, if I don't I die that's suicide
[01:50.55]Got the devil with a gun against my brain like choose a side
[01:53.55]Cause it's a war going on...
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[01:56.02][Hook]
[01:59.67]Cause it's a war going on outside on the corner
[02:02.50]It's a war on your TV screen every morning
[02:05.43]Not the war with the bombs and the helicopters swarming
[02:08.43]But the war for your soul, that's what everyone's ignoring
[02:11.48]It's a war going on
[02:14.44]Yeah, it's a war going on
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[02:17.28][Post-Hook]
[02:18.46]God told me this movie will write itself
[02:20.67]Spread love, be wise and let foolery fight itself
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[02:23.57](Cause it's a... it's a... it's a war going on)
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[02:32.68][Verse 2: King Los]
[02:37.65]I love the hood with my whole heart
[02:39.30]It whole heartedly been a part of me in my own thought process
[02:43.36]So I digest through my own art
[02:45.34]That I'm blessed though I digress due to slow starts
[02:49.71]But who else could bring the hood out
[02:51.38]And tell 'em when they let God in, it brings the good out
[02:55.52]Learn a lesson and listen
[02:57.20]My current composition concerns your present condition
[02:59.98]And turn direction envision of givin' blessings and wi*******n' you well
[03:03.99]Well wi*******ng and tales fi*******ng
[03:05.55]Siftin' through hell's kitchen to find good
[03:08.38]Have a God-like mind as the divine should
[03:11.06]Define good within yourself I think the time's good
[03:14.12]And may these lines live forever like a line should
[03:19.01]It's a war going on and your soul fighting
[03:21.36]So frightening within you I see thunder and both lightening
[03:24.72]Boat striking, snow ice and hail
[03:26.99]Your whole life unfold like, cold nights in Hell
[03:30.08]In a mode like, you're feeling low like, like you don't like yourself
[03:33.01]You got no sight, no insight
[03:34.46]No foresight, that's the *******t that your foes like
[03:35.96]Run up on a ******* get 'em froze like
[03:37.36]Put the 4-4 to his foes like
[03:38.55]*******s 'bout to take a pic, trying to get the pose right
[03:40.37]Red dot, headshot, hit 'em close like
[03:41.57]Like, like all theses *******s I've got to shoot one
[03:43.81]******* one pistol I'm *******ing two guns
[03:45.13]******* shoe money, I'm coppin' coupes son
[03:46.52]No y'all *******s not 'bout to do none
[03:48.13]Guns, that's a way of life, get money not God
[03:50.82]You got guns, we got bigger guns, go get one and I ride
[03:53.77]If I die, they say I went hard, I go super hard
[03:56.86]******* you with this *******ts or not? We gon' get this loot or starve?
[03:59.84]******* you doing? Writin' in a pad, ******* you making songs
[04:02.79]What you rappin', boy you know what's happ'nin', that *******t take too long
[04:05.78]******* you mean? Get this ******g cream, get this ******g cream
[04:08.76]Hug this block, tote this ******g Glock, can't let these suckers scheme
[04:11.44]*******t too real, *******t too ******g real, I'm too real to dream
[04:14.73]So when it's -- gunshots --this cold world won't feel a thing
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[04:18.13][Outro: Marhsa Ambrosius]
[04:18.14]Lonely days are gone
[04:21.50]All them nights to come
[04:24.40]Waited to be yours
[04:26.92]So let's make love not war
[04:31.16]So let the choir sing and let 'em know
[04:34.09]So let the choir sing and let 'em know
[04:37.09]So let the choir sing and let 'em know
[04:40.41]Whoa...