#nogozone - Esham

Hard times is spreadin' just like the flu

Watch out, don’t let it catch you, they wanna wet you I bet you

Stretch you out on the stretcher break you down from the pressure

I still got twenty-five lighters on my dresser, yessir

Let the bodies hit the flo', I gotta even the sco'

When they ask about your murder my name come up in the convo

Hard rhymes, hard lines, came up off hard times

Heavy mental rockin' instrumental still blowin' minds

I gotta cook it 'fore you cop it, gotta plug it in the socket

Got a key to this game, I can open it or lock it

Always did it for the love, never did it for the profit

But these scavengers and jackals always pullin' out my pockets

Hard times, cattle trippin', dippin', sippin' on the lean

I was servin' all the fiends, screamin' «God save the queen»

Infrared beams, cameras watchin' got me on the screen

You’ll do anything for that dopamine, puppet on the string

Livin' in a nightmare chasin' up the dream

Snitches plottin' scheme over cream, singin' on they whole team

Hard times got 'em blind, got 'em goin' out they mind

Got 'em jumpin' out the fryin' pan into fire, fryin'

Hard times got 'em dyin', going back to Columbine

Hard times got 'em sprayin' bullets over dollar signs

Hard times keep 'em broke, keep 'em strong, got no dope

Hard times what you feelin' if you almost outta hope

Hard times is our times in this motherfucker

Hard times is our times in this motherfucker

Hard times is our times in this motherfucker

Hard times is our times in this motherfucker