Love and Manipulation
Charlie Yama
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Sometime I gotta wonder If my mama ever loved me If at moments that I ever loved her If the things I suffered kept me closer To the life I started different From those summers I remember A degenerate seeking refuge In the refuse of his childhood Blue, black, beaten By the drugs inside the system Veins stained red By the love for his brethren It's hard to tell the time Nowadays he just writes a rhyme To keep it straight along his spine He got his problems neatly lined Try and take it one a day The way he only knows it He's free to stay and play like poets Singing for their names, their souls sold it Sold suffering to the grave, raw minds composed it Told it by trade, on the streets stray drifting Like a burn out, got his hand out Flat out splayed on cold ground Feel the seconds closing down Like red ribbons rolling out On fingertips folding round His voice choking out Made to feel the guilt In the stillness of his will As her words are gilded And his shadows are stilted And his visions start tilting As her reasons start wilting And everyday he set off Hoping he'd be met with appreciation And everyday he came home Knowing he'd be met with deprecation Setting hooks inside his dome Working like experimentation Prying away his cold stone Got his back up on indignation And all he could do was roam Across the rain looking for gratification Hoping he'd be left home alone Everyday fastened and tight-gripped Waiting for a day when he might trip On knuckles and words, lines slipped Between love and hypocrisy Silent curses, his wings clipped Rejection and refusal met with heresy The rest of his days burnt at the stake What's left of his pages turned into a charade But the mud and the blood don't kill him No, it's the rosebuds and rain floods that fill him With joy and despair Away from that love and toxicity That love and toxicity Sometime I gotta wonder If my mama ever loved me If at moments that I ever loved her If the things I suffered kept me closer To the life I started different From those summers I remember A degenerate seeking refuge In the refuse of his childhood Blue, black, beaten By the drugs inside the system Veins stained red By the love for his brethren When you see the time, call me from below When your senses go fading slow Flowing like a river, rocking rolling No boats gliding wide across shores Golden falling from the eyes Roses dying like a prayer And he's lost again He got his eyesight rolling back In the twilight twisted strapped To the highlights in his past And her strikes are flying hard Like a liar styling mad To make his mind's quiet last Til his vision takes off On criminal flight Lines rolling waves Upon the doorsteps making trace Visuals taking place Of his shadow and his face In a blissful way Like he's forgetting about his pain Like he's stepping out his way Like he's walking round in chains Like he's slipping down the drain But ablutions don't come by absolutions When you're looking for solutions To the traffic contraptions Got him stuck in traffic depression Feeling like this crossroads Won't take him home His words swallowed Don't make him whole Suicidal thoughts are loaded Stoned blank to his bones Choking twisted on lies fighting Like distrust of politics trying Too hard to hide the crime Rolling with public and courting the grime His world view fades to vapor and mist Like pearly gates laid upon his eyelids to rest Thinking where can I turn Face to face with his own transgression Thinking where can I run Chase the race to the end of creation Thinking where can I go wrong When there's no doing right along her companion Knowing this is where I stand Between her love and manipulation Knowing this is where I stand Between her love and manipulation Sometime I gotta wonder If my mama ever loved me If at moments that I ever loved her If the things I suffered kept me closer To the life I started different From those summers I remember A degenerate seeking refuge In the refuse of his childhood Blue, black, beaten By the drugs inside the system Veins stained red By the love for his brethren
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