OUTLAWZ - Soldier to a General lyrics
[napolean - verse 1]
Yoit's gettin colder with timethug rollers with rhymes
Gotta look out for the spinelessmarchin with mines
Outlawz on the grindin the back of my mind
Gotta watch out for the one-time all the time
Lot of fights on the blockso I walk with my glock
First head get hotgettin shot on the spot
It's a sticky sitch-e-ationtryin to duck to hatin
Fuckin with my familyI get worse than satan
Turnin niggaz outat a young age
It's what my life story's aboutI ain't afraid
Turnin in the watergaspin' for air
But I'm in the air at the same timesearchin for land
It's the life of a manwithout no parents to call
Had to learn right and wrong when it's onfuck all y'all
Walkin through the cemetery talkin to the dead
Conversation we gonna keep between usheard what he said
Think about the niggaz that can't make it to see tomorrow
Left his family all alone cause he got hit by the lead
Drama on the streets is what the outlawz fed
And if your ass get out of lineyou got a price on your head
[chorus - young noble]
I was born all alonei'mma die all alone (yeah)
So I ride all alonefrom a soldier to a general
I taught myselfwent to court myself (uh-huh)
Made a choicefrom a soldier to a general
A boy to a manain't nobody give a damn (fuck that!)
Live the streets without nobodyfrom a soldier to a general
We was raised around criminalsand played around criminals
The game of a criminalfrom a soldier to a general
[kastro - verse 2]
I walk around with the weight of the world
Faith in my shotty since I made it my girl (love you)
Oh! somebody save me pleaseI've been
Brought up amongst these scram blest thieves and
All they can show me is I fight with my muscle and (uh-huh)
I'd do anything for these stripes in the struggle and
Happiness is hennesseymixesand bitches and I'm all about my riches
From a small time grinder to a timer am i
Scandalous mind is a constant reminder of the
Evil these men dostruggle contend you
Lordwhat you got your boy all into
I must be mentalI must by psycho
Crazy deranged and my brains with a rifle
That's the price we pay to have life today
Will I have it any other way? no way (oh)
[e.d.i. mean - verse 3]
Seems like my addiction to the streets been a life long one
I chose to wrong damn crease
See momma work her fingers to the bone to make me a happy home
But I chose the wrongsteppin out on my own
Intrigued by them big-league niggaz with the blow
See my first dead man as a kid in eighty-four
Seen crack come and turn bums to millionaires
Turn and die a bitch outohand now she don't care
Something bought the ghetto in the summermake niggaz tougher
Niggaz die to be freshso we all turn to hustlas
Some stuck with itsome really couldn't fuck with it
Some trust the wrongand now they gone
Them flowers for the deadall the powers in my head
I give a fuck what them cowards saidI'm all about my bread
Struggle love tohuhhustle ball to
From a soldier to a generalnigga you better let em through
Chorus
[young noble - verse 4]
I grew uplike every other kid in the ghetto
Up the hill on my mountain bikestruggle to peddle
I was a freshman with no medals
But I earned my stripes
Wrong turns made me burn my life
Got a comment 'fore you walk soldierfollow the rules
Be a leader when I see youdon't follow the crew
There's only one way to live and one way to die
One way to fail and one way to try
My eyes bloodshot from the drugs on the block
And my thugs on the block got slugs for the cops
My moms loves my pops but she hurtin herself
Laid offso she brokenot workin herself
On my own at fifteenlearnin the ropes quick
Had to eat so I hustledturnin my coat quick
I ain't no shitonly how to be a criminal
But plan to expand from a soldier to a general
