Alchemy - 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Intro-verted was living withdrawn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