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04. Afterlife
Album: backbreakanomics
Artist: Mars Ill
         
 

(Verse #1)
I live the high life with lowlifes who want life to go/
Down the middle of the marketplace where souls are bought and sold/
In Rap Olympics, forfeit when the starting pistol sounds/
Make my words like safety nets so I can catch heads on the way down/
Found limits the breath that I breathe in this life that I lead/
It’s where the city’s smog infested skyline infects my lifetime/
Bring sentences to life like, “See spot run across the freeway”/
You can catch it on the Fox News instant replay/
I start the finished product minus the first sign of a blemish/
Trek towards the infinite if I can break this line of scrimmage/
Skywalk through clones attacking me, myself and Samuel Jackson/
To live life firsthand ‘til the second hand is reversed/
Blurt words written down, world wishing I’d curse them out/
So they can call me a hypocrite and disrespect what I’m about/
Flirt with disastrous methods, lessons pressed on earthquakes/
Make soundtracks for your life with every move that I make…

(Hook)
My life moves and it changes and it grows/
My life, I fight for life throughout the highs and lows/
My life is sacrifice, open wounds and broken habits/
My life, come here, take a second look at it/
My life moves and it changes and it grows/
My life, I fight for life throughout the highs and lows/
My life is just a token, a tool for you to see with/
It’s my life, but here, you can take it if you need it…

(Verse #2)
I got my mind on money that I buried inside the backyard/
Slaves to the industry push the plow, get their backs scarred/
I’m thinking how to snatch your shotgun before you shoot it/
The mountains are all snowcapped but the beaches are all polluted/
I still walk the narrow path tightrope style, eyes open to the trials/
While most of ya’ll stay in denial/
Hold on like a child to what’s real, the rest falls by the wayside/
Trace the hands of time to touch the face of El Shaddai/
But some of ya’ll don’t play right, you bite backs and attack life/
My back to the wall, eyes glued to the eyes of Christ/
That’s right, fan base is where open ears can listen/
Bump big business, my fast ball shatters the competition/
Win at least the division for the vision and still insisting/
That we can gain the power, run the labels and make the decisions/
My life, write songs for you and the people on your block/
It’ll blast on 88 whether the majors want it or not/
Just breathe. Breathe in the pain that comes with the growing/
Kiss the ground I walk upon and thank my God for the whole thing/
Take the bull by the horns because I gotta do something/
A nation of manchildren is now under construction…

(Hook)

(Verse #3)
I’ve slap-boxed with my brother and broken bread with whose buying/
Crouching tiger to hidden gratitude, impossible for me to see/
The divine schematics or divide the triune through mathematics/
Stand with a mic in my right hand with the left clutching a crucifix/
I haven’t felt this worn down since I last listened to Ludacris/
But I’m born new every morning, look in the mirror asking “Who is this?”/
See the battle scars I’ve earned, oh yeah, I remember now/
I’m the one who builds ‘til walls are torn down, so what now?/
The crowd disperses, dry wit falls off my person/
Manifest destiny, show my faith through action in remixed versions/
Dress the wounded with compassion no matter who’s the victor/
Expose the world to the Son’s light and I hope they all get blistered/
A mystery of life lived and you can’t know until you live this/
‘Til you fall on your face everyday and ask Him for forgiveness/
Hide my rage where I can’t find it ‘cause it always keeps me blinded/
I’m still living my life and this here is just a reminder…

(Hook)


 

More Lyrics from backbreakanomics

  1. 01. Eighty Eight
  2. 02. Breathe Slow
  3. 03. Planes and Trains
  4. 04. Afterlife
  5. 05. Black Box Artist (Boom-Bap)
  6. 06. Inside Out
  7. 07. Enterchange
  8. 08. Let Me Be
  9. 09. Alpha Male
  10. 10. PSA #428
  11. 11. Freeze Framework
  12. 12. Sideline Speech
  13. 13. Next Door
  14. 14. Piecemeal
  15. 15. Stepson
  16. 16. Sunstep
  17. 17. Lump Sum
  18. 18. The Calm Before
  19. 19. He
                 
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This Thursday, August 13
ALBUMS
Various Artists Songs We've Been Trying To Tell You About (And Others We Haven't), Volume Fifteen [JFH Music]

This Friday, August 14
ALBUMS
2819 Worship For Christ Alone - EP [Reach]
The Arcadian Wild Make It Out Alive [Rip Stitch]
JusRzd, Cyrus Sonata, Mic Wise The State of the Art - EP [Syntax]
Keyodis Enemy Skulls [Charon Collective]
Poor Old Lu Straight Six (Deluxe) Limited Edition (independent)
Jenna Raine Jeans, Boys & Jesus [Warner]

SINGLES
A Tribe Apart, Malcolm Rue, Nicole Muwanguzi Speak Lord - Single [Syntax]
Atlaslight More - Single (independent)
AustinThaNoble Not My Own - Single [Syntax]
DOE You Will Have It All - Single [Provident/Sony]
Exline True Love Stays - Single (independent)
GLADDEN Free Fall - Single (independent)
KXC X Brenton Brown, Megan Cockram Hallelujah Jesus Saves - Single (independent)
Brandon Lake How Good God Is - Single [Provident]
Myles Maestro SHOUT TO THE MOON - Single [Syntax]
Presence Music, SAPHIRE Mess of Mine - Single (independent)
Josiah Queen sundays - Single [Capitol CMG]
Jon Reddick King of Heaven - Single [Gotee]
The Rogers Family When Jesus Comes In The Clouds - Single [Horizon]
Saints in Exile Wolf That Raised Me - Single [Syntax]
SIGNUM REGIS Back to Zero - Single [Fireflash]
Skillet Lift Me Up - Single [Hear It Loud]
TRU-SERVA Always Look to God (feat. Mike Teezy) - Single [Trans4mation]
V1 Worship You Alone, Jesus - Single [Dream]
Mark Wills The Baptism of Jesse Taylor - Single [Gaither]

This Saturday, August 15
VINYL
Mat Kearney Nothing Left to Lose (Deluxe) Vinyl

Next Friday, August 21
ALBUMS
Band Reeves How To Forgive [Centricity]
CalledOut Music The Room [Integrity]
MotionPlus, Braille Still Dreamin' - EP [Gospel Banquet]
Lauren Talley Walls (Part One) - EP [Horizon]
Terrian Mad Big World [Gotee]

SINGLES
Bleach Once Again Here We Are - Single [Residence]
ELEOS Anchor For My Soul - Single (independent)
Grace Frances Waiting For Me - Single (independent)
WallerCo, John Waller Daddy's Here (Journee's Dream) - Single (independent)


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