StrayDog LoveSong - Shahmen

There’s gray clouds out but the day’s still sunny

And the land made of blood and milk and honey

Four walls and a floor and a roof and a door

And a window where I sit and watch the cold world war

Its the mad dash to get cash here while the shit lasts

Say it ends soon so we live fast

Got me buying flowers every other day

Just to pick em all apart and try and smoke em in your face

Want a taste from the river that cleans the sinner

Was in love at breakfast but hate by dinner

Still trying really to balance out the center

But you never get the sweet without the bitter

I pull my hood on when I head out in the city at night

Put my headphones on to a song I can write

Start to freestyle to every little thing I see

Street lights change and the car-horns beep

An old woman sleeps next to a trash heap

Crowd of pigeons gathered up right at her feet

I see comedy, drama and tragedy

Still alive, not a casualty

I walked a long cold road and wrote this heat

Just to warm my soul if soul could speak

Watching life turned whole from broken lengths

I want the love and the money and the time to think

I walked a long cold road and wrote this heat

Just to warm my soul if soul could speak

Watching life turned whole from broken lengths

I want the love and the money and the time to think

When you broke everyday is just a dollar to chase

When you rich everyday is just dollars to make

Don’t window shop but I walk in the bank

Thinking I ought to get all that I can

I know my music ain’t all that’s planned

But this is all that I have

As far as blood sweat and tears I put it all in the pad

And put faith in my strength when I started to rap

Say the strongest survive but its the ones who adapt

So any place on the map I’ve laid my hat

From LA to the dawn to cape town and back

I found my dogs and made my pacts

I made these songs and found my path

I hold the wheel while my soul will steer

As we rode through the globe and flow through ears

See the road’s made of gold it’s grown right here

See the pedals got the force the close comes near

But I’m only beginning to get it clear

Spent years, only writing about the man in the mirror

Been hungry in the concrete jungle full of fear

Now I’m feeling like the hunter on the day he met the bear

Cause the fear of the body bones and heart

A little bit of fear kept the soldier sharp

I sold everything I own to buy this poem

Hoping if I could just own it my money tree would grow

Maybe it will or maybe it won’t

Got a voice with the meaning but I’m still broke

But its all about the change, about the song I wrote

From the day I started hunting with the wolves and crows

I walked a long cold road and wrote this heat

Just to warm my soul if soul could speak

Watching life turned whole from broken lengths

I want the love and the money and the time to think

I walked a long cold road and wrote this heat

Just to warm my soul if soul could speak

Watching life turned whole from broken lengths

I want the love and the money and the time to think