[ti:Ballad Of A Dead Soulja - Album Version (Explicit)]
[ar:Tupac]
[al:Until The End Of Time]
[00:02.87]Yeah ballad of a dead soldier
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[00:07.64]This is the ballad of a dead soldier
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[00:13.10]This is the ballad of a dead soldier
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[00:17.66]Come play the ballad of a dead soldier
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[00:20.12]The plan, to take command of the whole family
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[00:22.78]Though underhanded, to be the man it was planned
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[00:24.48]All my road dawgs, official mob figures love to act up
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[00:27.18]The first to bomb we rob niggaz
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[00:28.87]I can be, lost in my own mind
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[00:30.53]To be the boss only thought's grip on chrome nines
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[00:32.76]Niggaz get tossed up, war scars, battlefield memories
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[00:35.46]Swore I saw the devil in my empty glass of Hennessey
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[00:38.59]Talkin' to a nigga on a tight leash
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[00:40.34]Screamin' **** the police, as I ride through the night streets
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[00:43.08]Little child runnin' wild, toward his danger
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[00:45.64]What's the cause don't be alarmed death to all strangers
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[00:48.01]Maybe I'm a madman
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[00:49.79]A pistol grabbin' nigga unleash the sandman
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[00:51.88]Promisin' merciless retaliation, nothin' is colder
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[00:54.43]Close your eyes, hear the ballad of a dead soldier
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[00:57.49]Thug for life I will be
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[01:00.55](This is the ballad of a dead soldier)
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[01:02.16]A life of crime I will lead
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[01:04.53](Close your eyes, hear the ballad of a dead soldier)
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[01:06.72]If you play the game, you play to win
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[01:09.83](This is the ballad of a dead soldier)
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[01:12.48]It's a crazy world full of sin
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[01:14.06](Close your eyes)
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[01:15.65]Completely lost, revenge at all costs
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[01:17.42]Pay back's a bitch, switch now the trick's crossed
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[01:20.45]Tossed up and never to be heard of
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[01:22.00]A single witness screamin' bloody murder, murder
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[01:24.41]Blast tell me homey what you see now?
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[01:27.02]A blind man and a dead body, I'm read' to leave town
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[01:29.65]And get my cash though, hook up with Castro
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[01:32.01]Homey had to blast on the task force
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[01:33.97]Stupid coppers tried to play us out, never that
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[01:36.32]They took my money and my stash
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[01:37.73]Time to get 'em back uh uh, upon my secret arrival
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[01:40.45]Two glock four fives, time for survival
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[01:42.84]Death to my rivals, tell me what you want Lord?
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[01:45.37]Nobody left after the death of a drug lord uh uh
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[01:48.09]The situation's critical
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[01:50.39]Nothin' is colder than hear the ballad of a dead soldier
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[01:52.91]Thug for life I will be
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[01:55.77](This is the ballad of a dead soldier)
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[01:57.83]A life of crime I will lead
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[02:00.18](Close your eyes, hear the ballad of a dead soldier)
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[02:02.49]If you play the game, you play to win
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[02:05.19](This is the ballad of a dead soldier)
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[02:07.76]It's a crazy world full of sin
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[02:09.78](Close your eyes and hear the ballad of a dead soldier)
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[02:12.40]Be a coward, put yo' hands to the moon
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[02:13.87]When my glocks rang out, the niggaz came out boom
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[02:16.26]Who wanna see me in the challenge?
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[02:17.90]So merciless I'm terrifyin' niggaz in my ballads, do you feel me?
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[02:20.56]Capo or Capitan, one day I'll be the Don
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[02:22.37]Until then, remain strong
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[02:24.66]My only fear of death is reincarnation
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[02:26.87]Bustin' at my adversaries like a mental patient
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[02:29.55]To all my niggaz facin' sixty years, sheddin' tattooed tears
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[02:32.96]Another suicidal on the peer
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[02:35.71]Takin' private planes, tryin' to survive the game
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[02:37.66]For all my homies that'll never be alive again
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[02:39.02]All he promised us is death nigga
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[02:40.77]Take a breath come be the last one left nigga, it's real now
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[02:43.81]Villain to fantasize, ain't nothin' colder
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[02:46.87]Listen you can hear it the ballad of a dead soldier
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[02:48.57]Thug for life I will be
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[02:51.45](This is the ballad of a dead soldier)
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[02:53.65]A life of crime I will lead
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[02:56.05](Close your eyes, hear the ballad of a dead soldier)
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[02:57.76]If you play the game, you play to win
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[03:00.66](This is the ballad of a dead soldier)
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[03:02.94]It's a crazy world full of sin
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[03:05.23](Close your eyes and hear the ballad of a dead soldier)
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[03:07.14]This go out to Cato, mental, all the niggaz that passed away
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[03:12.56]Mutulu, Geronimo all the down ass riders
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[03:17.99]All the niggaz that put it down, all the soldiers
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[03:21.97]All the niggaz that go through that day to day struggle
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[03:24.54]This is the ballad of a dead soldier
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[03:27.01]All the niggaz that passed on
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[03:28.85]All the niggaz with ambition and money in they heart
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[03:30.88]All the niggaz that want some and that don't take none
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[03:33.15]Ha ha ha this is the ballad of a dead soldier
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[03:36.44]The police are so scared of us
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[03:38.49]All the feds they aware of us, they wanna see us dead
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[03:41.69]They got pictures of a nigga head
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[03:43.70]Ballad of a dead soldier
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[03:45.92]Tryin' to see me in chains, shit
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[03:48.54]Them niggaz'll never breathe again
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[03:50.58]Before they put me in a cell they'll see me in hell
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[03:52.41]'Cause it's the ballad of a dead soldier
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[03:54.97]Got my pistols cocked
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[03:56.30]Run the whole mother****in' block, **** the cops
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[03:58.36]The police we run these streets nigga
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[04:00.90]Ain't heard the ballad of a dead soldier
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[04:04.36]These niggaz can't see me, half the world wanna be me
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[04:07.45]Multi millionaire, shit it ain't fair
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[04:09.74]But nigga, you know
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[04:11.40]It's the ballad of a dead soldier