[00:00.00]artist: nas
[00:03.56]album:  god's son
[00:07.13]song:   the cross
[00:10.70]typed by: ohhla W*******r dj flash
[00:17.84]i carry the cross, if virgin mary had an abortion
[00:20.65]i'd still be carried in the chariot by stampeding horses
[00:23.68]had to bring it back to new york
[00:25.33]i'm happy that the streets is back in new york
[00:27.52]for you rappers, i carry the cross
[00:29.48]i carry the cross, if virgin mary had an abortion
[00:32.24]i'd still be carried in the chariot by stampeding horses
[00:35.23]had to bring it back to new york
[00:37.12]i'm happy that the streets is back in new york
[00:39.20]for you rappers, i carry the cross
[00:41.36]y'all can keep y'all weak beats, from your corny producers
[00:43.96]there's a new king of the streets, you're gonna get used to
[00:46.95]i was the old king of the streets, that y'all once hated
[00:49.94]but now i reinvented myself, and y'all all waited
[00:52.82]nas, n.a.s. mean niggaz against society
[00:55.98]noisy i aim not silently, noose all surroundin me
[00:58.74]i hang 'em i string 'em up ain't no thing i just drop 'em
[01:01.73]to which doctor you copped and you locked and it ain't what it was
[01:04.03]i changed it up from that pop s**t it's hard to see r&b
[01:07.41]rappers arguably, started f**kin up the game horribly
[01:10.61]cause, i parted the sea, then these novices targetted me
[01:13.80]bitches infatuated say they love me lyin to me
[01:16.78]what i've discovered is my brother's tryin to be
[01:19.40]the next me, yeah i support him but he's blinded i see
[01:22.24]jealousy he love me to death am i buggin i love him for life
[01:26.06]we both still mournin on our mother's, life
[01:28.20]and i don't need much but a dutch, a B***h to f**k
[01:31.17]a six, a truck, some guns to bust
[01:33.31]i wish it was that simple, the last emperor, hit yo' ass
[01:36.09]with the nasty nas, diary, get out my path
[01:40.06]i carry the cross, if virgin mary had an abortion
[01:42.39]i'd still be carried in the chariot by stampeding horses
[01:45.43]had to bring it back to new york
[01:47.19]i'm happy that the streets is back in new york
[01:49.38]for you rappers, i carry the cross
[01:51.41]i carry the cross, if virgin mary had an abortion
[01:54.19]i'd still be carried in the chariot by stampeding horses
[01:57.07]had to bring it back to new york
[01:58.97]i'm happy that the streets is back in new york
[02:01.31]for you rappers, i carry the cross
[02:03.45]i can't keep a B***h cause none of them come up for a little less
[02:06.02]i can't be too rich, too many hoes, lined up for sex
[02:08.76]i can't rest until my niggaz in houses with pretty maids
[02:11.58]water and flowers in 'em
[02:13.39]while my niggaz walk around in they trousers grinnin
[02:15.71]gotta keep a lot of heat; 30 cals 10 millimeters
[02:19.02]40 cals plus the heckler, to set y'all straight
[02:21.75]you too light?  i shoot your freckles out
[02:23.77]you too dark?  the infrared show you what the tec about
[02:26.62]huh?  i'm stressin out, need more offices for bosses
[02:29.25]secretaries and meetings with big sharks, who mad greedy
[02:32.38]we can sell mo', boats on the coast
[02:34.47]give, coats to the po' and give, hope to the broke then live low
[02:37.88]but that ain't reality, i look happy but under the sky
[02:40.94]you see a n***a who know, out of three women 2 out of 3
[02:44.07]will love you but lead you to they own, hidden evil
[02:46.99]bitch!  you the reason niggaz be beefin, hoe get on
[02:50.05]'posed to be earth, ain't worth the P***y that you sit on
[02:52.61]from here on, it's a new day
[02:54.59]million dollars ain't, what it was yesterday
[02:57.24]many problems, many niggaz, most involved but they fake
[02:59.33]hope y'all relate
[03:01.75]i carry the cross, if virgin mary had an abortion
[03:06.59]i'd still be carried in the chariot by stampeding horses
[03:07.81]had to bring it back to new york
[03:10.56]i'm happy that the streets is back in new york
[03:11.36]for you rappers, i carry the cross
[03:13.15]i carry the cross, if virgin mary had an abortion
[03:15.99]i'd still be carried in the chariot by stampeding horses
[03:18.99]had to bring it back to new york
[03:20.90]i'm happy that the streets is back in new york
[03:22.88]for you rappers, i carry the cross
[03:24.81]i carry the cross