(+) Waking Life - A Greater Mind
C'est La VieHello GoodbyeC'est La VieHello GoodbyeC'est La VieHello Goodbye Hello Goodbye Hello Goodbye C'est La VieHello Goodbye We come, we leave We born, we die No them no weJust you and I We come, we leave We born, we dieC'est La VieHello Goodbye We come we leave We born we die No them no weJust you and I We come we leave We born we dieI always said I'd never do it for the girls or fame For the glitz or the glamor nor the pearls or chains My homie stayed the homie through the swirls of flames She said, "Boydon't you stopyou got a world to change"that statement got me like hold upThe belief in them eyes though it lit my whole soul up This is more than a quota this is more than the rhetoric Measured with better etiquette let it get fed the predicate Eating up all the action looking for lost attractions Looking to pause the passion And pushing it off to that one This one Found myself and lost religion Said my peace to the Muslim Hindu and ChristiansBut it hurts most because I'm hurting my moms If we converse then you find that's what lurks in my mindBut I know deep down she ain't raise me like that And when I go homeshe thinks I'm crazy I bet C'mon C'est La Vie Hello, Goodbye We come, we leave We born, we die No them no weJust you and I We come, we leave We born, we dieC'est La Vie Hello, Goodbye We come, we leave We born, we die No them no weJust you and I We come, we leave We born, we dieWho would have thought that mad kids were attracted To the awkward fat kid with the glasses I lost a lot of weight & I changed the image But I'm still the same person with the tainted blemish Doing the same shitthat got me out my depression Back then it was a hobbynow it's my profession It was hard at first because I hated haters But hip hop saved my lifeI'm 'gon repay the favor And I was raised in the state of mind of chasing paper Lacing favors take ya time when the stakes are greater In the home studio slaving and waking neighbors A lifestyle of constant work minimum wage & labor Keep thinking the reason to stopBut all you you got is yourself it's hard to believe in a lot Can't believe in a liefighting to even the odds Splicing the peas in the pod Deciphering reasons to try C'est La Vie Hello, Goodbye We come, we leave We born, we die No them no weJust you and I We come, we leave We born, we dieC'est La Vie Hello, Goodbye We come, we leave We born, we die No them no weJust you and I We come, we leave We born, we dieThese days it's just harder to focusGot a lot on my mindand it's hard to expose it They keep saying it's all apart of the opus But I've already noticed That's why I've already wrote it It's hard to come home after all the people you touch But it's also hard to stay away from people you love But To give 100 percent you gotta take it first That's when you start to envy the people that make it workOne man's hell is another man's heaven One man's demons is another man's reverendThe way I see ityou got a couple of optionsYou can lie you can cheat, stealor hustle your noggin I chose the latter Climbing higher with quotes that matter Abracadabra! they rather call me a social rapper Are we on the same page? I want to know the chapter Don't matter if we flip the scriptcuz we know the actorsC'est La Vie Hello, Goodbye We come, we leave We born, we die No them no weJust you and I We come, we leave We born, we dieC'est La Vie Hello, Goodbye We come, we leave We born, we die No them no weJust you and I We come, we leave We born, we die