[00:26.21]If this the last song I ever wrote
[00:28.09]If it were to be the night that these mother****ers murdered me
[00:30.58]If it were to be a car crash swerving into a Mercury
[00:33.50]Burgundy splash through the glass when sirens circle me
[00:36.18]I will be viewed as violent certainly
[00:38.10]Drug-addled so maybe I’ve only written the worst of me
[00:41.32]Maybe by me even writing these words I’m tempting the fates
[00:43.95]They come from the heart sent from a place
[00:45.98]I couldn’t find in my mind, I was blind, I was lost
[00:48.56]In a time warp when a mind walked from a sick scene on a sidewalk
[00:51.54]Full of suicide thoughts, full of false dreams and hopes that you and I bought
[00:55.74]Like dope so we had to find things to cope
[00:58.06]Ended up covered in dirt not washed with soap
[01:00.53]We ended up learning all about the cost of coke
[01:03.08]By the rope and seen some good folks lost from dope
[01:05.51]I can’t begin to begin, I’m just horrified
[01:08.58]You’re ? me ? this thing, you think it’s glorified
[01:11.39]I just hear the pendulum swing again and again
[01:13.20]The same song, broken dreams and dead friends
[01:15.51]I been where I been now I stand where I am
[01:18.01]As a man with a mic in his hand now goddamn
[01:20.45]Back holding the crack planet that’s covered with monkeys
[01:23.01]As I walk through the halls of recovering junkies
[01:25.33]If this was the last song I ever wrote
[01:31.26]I’d tell you to grab it by the throat
[01:36.52]If this is the last song I ever write
[01:41.20]I’ll tell you to stand back up and fight
[01:46.30]Live your life, give your life
[01:51.31]Stand up and fight, young man
[01:54.67]Live your life, give your life
[02:01.45]Stand up and fight, young man
[02:05.26]If these the last words I ever spoke
[02:06.82]Would you listen closer?
[02:07.69]Would you close your eyes, envision what I’m supposed to be?
[02:10.61]Just a ghost of my boys that overdosed
[02:12.29]On crushed-up poison, crushed with the noise of the ocean
[02:15.67]Way before Affleck or Coka Nostra
[02:17.48]Before I had a cashed cheque or a poster
[02:19.98]Rode sofa to sofa clutching on the old toaster
[02:22.61]Writing on spray paper, grey days of cold culture
[02:24.99]Devil got an ulcer with a habit to match it
[02:27.37]In a bad temper so I’m grabbing a ratchet
[02:29.80]Just to go along with it my stakes are high
[02:32.24]To the people this is the way that I say goodbye
[02:34.31]To my baby boy Terrance, parents so opposite
[02:37.37]Just as smart as momma is, fiery as poppa gets
[02:39.99]Just one thing little man you cannot forget
[02:42.40]If your will is real nobody else can stop the shit
[02:45.35]Shit I’m living proof, take a look and figure it
[02:47.63]I grew up in a paradox and rather not forgive the shit
[02:49.94]But I had to box out this box and I live with it
[02:52.36]Boxed out of detox, they said I’m on some wigger shit
[02:54.79]Hated, they were racist so I was facing bigger shit
[02:57.11]Seen too many homies die just trying to dig a ditch
[02:59.77]I philosophize all my life burning cigarettes
[03:02.04]I became smarter but y’all returned to ignorant
[03:04.44]If this was the last song I ever wrote
[03:10.05]I’d tell you to grab it by the throat
[03:15.03]If this is the last song I ever write
[03:20.03]I’ll tell you to stand back up and fight
[03:25.53]Live your life, give your life
[03:30.28]Stand up and fight, young man
[03:35.34]Live your life, give your life
[03:40.47]Stand up and fight, young man