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Dead Man Walking

from CITY HIGH by Motown Priest

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(1st Verse)
See the hood is a graveyard
the projects are the tombstones
with names engraved in the mailboxes
In a size a cellblock is
call it home in a cemetery that's twelve blocks thick
The corner spot a quarter block down is the favorite haunt
where niggas toasting to life
or they're easing the effects of it
If it's any difference
So, niggas ride or die until the engine smoke to represent the life
...Or death

(Hook)
Cause it's a living hell in the block, a dead man walking it
a dead man walking, it's life or something like it
And pour it up, pour it out
Reminisce the last one
When you put the glass up, the life
The life, niggas living for the night
Life or something like it, a dead man walking to the light
The light
A dead man walking to the light
The light
A dead man walking to the light...

(2nd Verse)
They say it's evil lurking,
that pass through the human spirit
So niggas escape through crack, booze or through syringes
The evil is spoke with half-truths and superstition
And camouflaging it with tattoos of crucifixes
Praying to god, with a complex
just a nigga from the projects with a gun
Fear none, cause your last moment here could be the next
You're giving life, but only if you're promised it with death....

(Hook)
Cause it's a living hell in the block, a dead man walking it
a dead man walking, it's life or something like it
And pour it up, pour it out
Reminisce the last one
When you put the glass up, the life
The life, niggas living for the night
Life or something like it, a dead man walking to the light
The light
A dead man walking to the light
The light
A dead man walking to the light...

(3rd Verse)
Yeah, it's a war going out, niggas hurt or be scarred
Stab wounds, gun shot victims, surgery marks
Frantic, with the panic spreading with emergency calls
The ghetto, niggas feel it when it touch home
Spending months gone, and back
The dead are resurrected as niggas standing on the corner
their fathers and their uncles stood proudly
A life ago, busting they guns
casting a shadow of death in the night
Said his heaven is the moonlight
Overhead, smoking to the clouds
with the older heads living their life through younger niggas
Other pictures of the past, still-frames in their minds
lived through the wars
but still feel pains in their spines
Reminiscing all the realest nigga's names in their time
who they exist through
the pain in their eyes, is for the dead men....

(Hook)
Cause it's a living hell in the block, a dead man walking it
a dead man walking, it's life or something like it
And pour it up, pour it out
Reminisce the last one
When you put the glass up, the life
The life, niggas living for the night
Life or something like it, a dead man walking to the light
The light
A dead man walking to the light
The light
A dead man walking to the light...

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from CITY HIGH, released October 22, 2013
Produced by DJ Mentos

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Motown Priest New York

Born and raised in Detroit, and as a New York City and international Underground artist, Motown Priest paints the real and unfortunate narratives of inner-city violence complimented by satire and social dialogue. He has done shows with such legendary acts such as Jay Electronica, Conway the Machine, Che Nóir, Rome Streetz, Fredwreck of Aftermath Records, Cormega, REKS, and R.A. the Rugged Man. ... more

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