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Hold Your Peace

Album: If Not Now Then When Durasi: 6:06

When you're weary, feelin small

And tears are in your eyes

I will dry them all

I am by your side

When times get tough

And friends just can't be found

Like a bridge over troubled water

I will lay me down

Like a bridge

Yeah

Since ain't nobody rappin, I had to buss out the pen

Who needs passion, they happily follow trends

While they take it easy, I'm battlin thoughts within

God give me strength to tackle the odds and ends

Did the work to get on track, then ya fall again

Devil want ya soul and ya back to the wall again

Plottin my escape, if not now, then when

I took my faith to heart, and it cost me friends

Do they really love you, the fact is it all depends

Rather play it safe and assume that they all pretend

Rather not set myself up for them to disappoint

You ont wanna hear me talk that talk, you better skip the joint

Claim to do it for God, but wanna be pretty boys

Debatin who the hottest in the city boys

I ont have any bars, but let me hop in this car

And hit the town to try and show em how I'm litty boys

That's not gon get it done

Don't get it twisted, we on two different missions son

More than a few from out ya crew that went missin son

Did the damage, keep it movin like a hit and run, yuh

I always keep fightin

You need the moral support, look at ya team hypin

Talkin slick, but don't ever forget

Oil and water don't mix, yall the definition of grease lightnin

Out here causin a scene

Every song ya drop, another marketing scheme

Another campaign, another album to roll out

Ya thought it was a game, but looked up and it's a blowout

Took the high road when so many took the low route

Guess them tours and merch ain't the only thing that sold out

I got people that owe me splits and still ain't pay me

Signed a lease with the homies, both of em did me crazy

And then fell off the grid, maybe it was somethin that I did

But I ain't livin rich, I ain't cop me no big chain

Never knew you'd have such disdain for the kid, yuh

Suddenly you avoidin friends

Disappear till they makin noise again

Guess it's the way it goes, we met the end of the road

Even that ain't turnin you boys to men

Caught up in a circle full of opportunists

Tried to play it cool, but they was not the smoothest

I ran outta room for yall on my to do list

Seen a lil bit of Jesus, seen a lotta Judas

Still made it through every kind of season

Without any rhyme or reason, had to find a reason

Even now I'm lookin for another line to squeeze in

And yall thought that I was givin yall the silent treatment

Not at all brother, gotta be careful wit who you call brother

I know that pride come before the fall brother

So Ima keep it mellow even when I ball brother

Speak now or forever hold ya peace

I've been known to preach over the coldest beats

But I never needed you to notice me

I'm just here to give you what was owed to me

Every test, every trial

Never flex for the crowd, they invested in now

But I bet they couldn't even make it stretch for a mile

Promise I would never keep it nothin less than a thou

Dear Lord

I was stressed, I was down

I was pressed, nearly crushed, see the sweat from the brow

I got lost in the maze, in the flesh, runnin wild

Swallowed by the waves, outta breath, in denial

Now I honor every promise I confessed wit my vows

I got blessed wit a wife, blessed wit a child

I got blessed wit His life, cleansed by His stripes

What was mine from the start, I accepted it now

Every step that I took, one for the books

All sixty six, ask God how I look

Not a pawn, not a rook, but a king wit a crown

Any giant tryna run up on the team hit the ground, that's that

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah