[00:00.00]The Roots - Tip the Scale(feat. Dice Raw)
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[00:14.73]Homicide or suicide
[00:16.58]Heads or tails
[00:18.34]Some think life is a living hell
[00:21.45]Some live life just living well
[00:24.43]I live life tryna tip the scale
[00:27.52]My way, my way
[00:34.09]My way, my way
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[00:40.03]Yo, I’m always early
[00:41.75]I never take off cause I got a job
[00:44.83]Rob Peter to pay Paul
[00:46.55]Now I realize it’s the winner that takes all
[00:49.65]Do what I gotta do because I can’t take loss
[00:53.00]Picture me living life as if I’m some animal
[00:56.11]That consumes its own dreams like I’m a cannibal
[00:59.35]I won’t accept failure unless it’s mechanical
[01:02.62]But still the alcohol mixed with the botanical
[01:05.79]I guess I be referred to the owners manual full of loaners
[01:10.31]Full of all the homeless throwaways and the stoners
[01:13.29]Soldiers of the streets with 8th grade diplomas
[01:16.69]And the world awaiting their shoulders as a bonus
[01:19.62]Look, let he without sin live without sin
[01:21.82]Until then, I’ll be doing dirty jobs like swamp men
[01:27.04]Counting the faces of those that might have been
[01:30.37]It’s like living that life but I won’t live that life again
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[01:33.21]Homicide or suicide
[01:34.58]Heads or tails
[01:36.31]Some think life is a living hell
[01:39.05]Some live life just living well
[01:42.08]I live life tryna tip the scale
[01:45.30]My way, my way
[01:51.67]My way, my way
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[01:58.16]Lot of n*ggas go to prison
[02:00.05]How many come out Malcolm X?
[02:01.74]I know I'm not
[02:03.25]Sh*t, can't even talk about the rest
[02:05.07]Famous last words: "You under arrest"
[02:08.18]Will I get popped tonight? It's anybody's guess
[02:11.99]I guess a n*gga need to stay cunning
[02:14.37]I guess when the cops comin' need to start runnin'
[02:17.48]I won't make the same mistakes from my last run in
[02:21.21]You either done doing crime now or you done in
[02:24.87]I got a brother on the run and one in
[02:28.31]Wrote me a letter, he said when you comin'
[02:31.19]Sh*t man, I thought the goal's to stay out
[02:34.23]Back against the wall, then shoot your way out
[02:37.48]Gettin' money's a style that never plays out
[02:40.50]'Til you end up boxin' your stash, money's paid out
[02:43.83]The scales of justice ain't equally weighed out
[02:46.81]Only two ways out, digging tunnels or digging graves out
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[02:50.98]Homicide or suicide
[02:52.38]Heads or tails
[02:53.73]Some think life is a living hell
[02:56.89]Some live life just living well
[03:00.08]I live life tryna tip the scale
[03:03.31]My way, my way
[03:09.73]My way, my way
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