ALCHEMY

Verse [Napoleon Da Legend]

Never thought I’d get a second chance
These lessons never made me less of a man
And some of these lessons were second hand
Instead of dead became a better man
With Doogie and T we was wilding out
Long Island ice and women were out
Drunken nights at the embassy Gin and the Hennessy
Throwing up right in the mezzanine
Did it for thrill of it girls they were feeling it moving
They hips to rhythm like a ventriloquist
Player certificate never reciprocate
Betting on tables amounts were significant
Bottle would pop models would drop in followed
By cops we would play by the margin
Play by the margin like Soldiers we marching
Life ain't a choice if you don't know options
Skeletons up in the closet we lock in
Lawyers and documents nobody talking
Life ain't always a walk a park peaches and cream
We was deep in a dreams
Peeping the scene as scenery darkens
Taking some sleeping pills mix it vodka
Breathing in the oxygen with OxyContin
IV in my veins the doctors is watching
It's like a debacle life is a novel
When you see light like they write in the gospel
That glimpse of nirvana the calm and the quiet
Now you believe in karma u saw the messiah
Ya body sucks ya back in to itself
That's the epiphany free from the spell
We tricking ourselves
Live in a prison we built for ourselves chasing
This dream and we killing ourselves
Are we living in heaven or living in hell
That's Raekwon and ghost
You can hate on my drive you can hate on my growth
You hate on my image can't hate on my flow
Had to grind to put my name on a show
You hating yourself like you Raven Simon
Went thru fraudulent manager bruises and
Bandages Cougars and amateurs groupies with laminates
Rumors is damaging I move in manner the jewels
That I drop either Ruby or amethyst
Orbit the sun Comoros islands my origin sun
Trade a fist for a sword and a sword for a gun as a
Youth all I was looking for was a lung
Youngin with asthma my brain in a cast
Fought it myself I was able to last
Too short to play ball I was able to snap
Couldn't speak English was able to rap
Parents is gone still my spirit was strong
Intro-verted was living withdrawn
Sky's the limit my eyes on the prize
Polly with vixens my eyes on the thighs
Nobody knew me now I'm on the rise
Kept my convictions was honest with mine
We dropping bombs on anonymous lives
New babies is born and then somebody dies
The cycle of life we recycle the vice
We surviving we rightfully fight for our rights
Harbor the pain in the heart there's a flame
All too often seems we caught in the rain
Gave u part of my soul is it offered in vain
So many making checks off of my name
All for the fame and the dough and the women
Offered my pain all too often I couldn't
Stomach the fact I was my stuck in the past
Still after years miss the fuck out my dad
And never really talked about that
And nah don't wanna talk about that
Haters and commentators asking for favors
Patrolman at customs is asking for papers
Travel to places, bookers and agents
Doing it major around Pretty faces
Took a while to see the fruit of my labor
Now put my name in a group with greatest
Who can debates? who can debase us?
Remember I recorded tunes in the basement
My momma was yelling I kept her awake
I'm a buy that woman a crib by the lake
Live what I make every mistake
All of the good every evil I face
Made me a man from the worst made the best
Until the day that they lay me to rest