Dirt - Shahmen

I was born by the beach

Water 'round my bones

First heartbeat became the 808 tone

Speech came later, gets greater as I grow

Peace to the haters and a prayer for my foes

Love to my family and my family keeps grow’n'

Death to the vanity cause damn it, we gold

Turn into rust and then into dust

Carved in ebony with an elephant tusk

All the world’s a stage, see the rows of names

Everyone’s a child playing out the game

I know I’m just the same

Desire is the flame

High on fire and I’m tired of my ways

Open up the blinds, hangin' in my eyes

Windows are closed, open up to life

See a tree grow, tree grows in size

See a body rot, I’m reminded of my time

Stories I ain’t told still hidden in my mind

Watch it unfold like treasure that I find

See a tree grow, tree grows in size

See a body rot, I’m reminded of my time

Now I live in these beats

No matter where I roam

Wander down the streets 'till I make it back home

Sand from the beach still stuck between my toes

My hands and my feet buildin' buildings of stone

Face to the sky with a breeze through my hair

Friends that are gone, I’ll find you right here

I don’t look to dirt when I know you’re in the air

Not another fool who thinks life should be fair

God’s a referee with a whistle in his mouth

He blows every time there’s a foul or time-out

Stuck in the trap well it’s time we climbed out

Bustin' off my gat towards the diamonds in my mouth

Found hip-hop in the temple of my room

Every day I build while the symbol turn to runes

Standin' on the brick that used to be your tomb

Pourin' out a drop from the bottle of my booze

Used to be dirt, grew into a plant

Once was an animal, now I’m just a man

Dreams still intangible, heart up in my hands

This will be the light for the darkness in my head

Used to be dirt, grew into a plant

Once was an animal, now I’m just a man

Dreams still intangible, heart up in my hands

This will be the life for the darkness in my head