Family Business from The Growth by Treeoflyfe

[Verse]

Look at you
Living proof we in a new age
In life there's only two ways
I'ma need some new sage

When I was young I had a crush on Lauryn Hill
Bumping the score wondering how it would feel
To have a strong black woman with a voice that gave us chills
Fighting with Babylon without the fear of being killed
Now I rock Kufi's, a true life Fugee
No group, just groupies these hoes so choosey
I rarely complain, I laugh at my pain
Put my interest in love
Just to see what i'd gain
Zion all on my brain
I am stuck in my ways
Triumph all in my name
Different habitual lane switching
Red light
I got my vision and my soul with me
No longer feel the need for ya'll to roll wit me
Nobody feel how I feel
Ain't no consoling me
Swear to the death ain't no controlling me
One love
Family should be our strength
Somehow hate crept in our skin
So na na na I just wonder how it ends
Cuz I, I done noticed that my best friend
Could be my worst enemy and my enemy my best friend
Wait until the sex ends
We all lose connection wit the same soul
That you once have shared reflections with
Yea it's all the same story
The serpent in the grass
Man and Woman in the orgy

[Hook]
Just walking the streets
Death can take you away
There's not a guarantee that you'll see the next day
At night
The evil army of Satan don't play
So defend the family
That's the code to obey
Well If I wake up fully and life takes me away
Don't be surprised son
I wasn't put here to stay
At night
The evil army of Satan don't play
So put the family back together
No don't ever betray

Aye, to ensure the mass insanity
Teach the people vanity
Reduce em to depravity
While worshipping your majesty
Pollute em like a cavity
Let music move em backwardly
Narcotics change reality, poison our humanity
Tell em that they're free in a land made off slavery
To corrupt a world you must first destroy the family see
The other night I feel asleep watching the Truman show
Woke up and realized it's the human show
Ain't it unusual how something once beautiful
Can turn into the opposite
Depending on the purpose that you use it for?
She could be wifey
Or just a new stupid hoe
And make you wonder what you do it foe
A friend of mine lost a lover to shots
He ain't recover now he visits in the dark of the night
She's in her covers
She think she talking to her dead love one
To hard to explain
That it's just a dead love hun
Cherish the moment cuz when it's gone
You ain't got one
The evil army of Satan don't play
The early bird get the worm
Check the instant replay
Wouldn't be surprised
If you could sell ya soul away on ebay

[Hook]
Just walking the streets
Death can take you away
There's not a guarantee that you'll see the next day
At night
The evil army of Satan don't play
So defend the family
That's the code to obey
Well If I wake up fully and life takes me away
Don't be surprised son
I wasn't put here to stay
At night
The evil army of Satan don't play
So put the family back together
No don't ever betray aye

[Outro]
They killing us softly
uhn
They killing us now
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They killing us softly
Uhn
They killing us now
They killing us softly
uhn
They killing us now
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They killing us softly
Uhn
They killing us now

They killing us now

• Hip-Hop/Rap
• detroit hip hop
• independent hip-hop
• mainstream hip hop
• soul
• underground
• Los Angeles