[Bridge: Maverick Sabre] Father, see this life we're living in where so much people cry Tell me on the TV to be rich so I don't sleep at night I know there's a change and we can work to see a different life Give me a sign, a sign, a sign They think they know me very well Left here with no one but myself Watch time pass by Oh my
[Hook: Maverick Sabre] Oh, if I don't see nothing positive How am I supposed to be more than this? Yeah, I don't need to be safe I just need to be paid And oh, if I don't see nothing positive How am I supposed to be more than this? I don't need to be safe I just need to be paid, and oh
[Verse 1: Chip] Yeah, people dying where I'm from, mothers crying where I'm from I know people think I'm hiding where I'm from Paranoid thoughts all the time I see mothers bury sons, I imagine that was mine I'm looking at this life like \"blud, what has it come to?\" Banging for your manor but fam, what if your mum moved Somewhere that you didn't know? Maybe to my ends Then maybe you would have my vision, maybe we'd be friends Or maybe you won't trust the vision Take a different path and be the kind of person That will make me sit here with this pen You ain't gotta ask me if I'm really from the ends Diamond from the dirt but now I'm giving you the gems, but it's stress So I light this last one that I've got Positive thinking inside a negative box Due to end up a political nuisance This is words from an A-grade student, yeah
[Hook: Maverick Sabre] Oh, if I don't see nothing positive How am I supposed to be more than this? Yeah, I don't need to be safe I just need to be paid And oh, if I don't see nothing positive How am I supposed to be more than this? I don't need to be safe I just need to be paid, and oh
[Verse 2: Chip] Yo, most people don't have a pot to piss, yo Gotta be the shit to make it out the shithole Remember why you're flipping when you're flipping it though As fast as it comes, as fast as it goes I got stuck up for a chain, learnt my lesson for real I wanted to be Scarface until the end of the film I guess the money's what they're all having visions about Things we do to the Queen's head, wish I could — in her mouth In these times today, take my mind away As I light my grade, I will find a way I hope and I pray my soul stays the same As I pass through the hood where they take lives away The hating ain't new to me, it's usual And if I die young, man, they'll bang this at my funeral Good vs evil times, pick a side And when you do, my brudda, don't be shook to die, yeah
[Hook: Maverick Sabre] Oh, if I don't see nothing positive How am I supposed to be more than this? Yeah, I don't need to be safe I just need to be paid And oh, if I don't see nothing positive How am I supposed to be more than this? I don't need to be safe I just need to be paid, and oh
[Bridge: Maverick Sabre] Father, see this life we're living in where so much people cry Tell me on the TV to be rich so I don't sleep at night I know there's a change and we can work to see a different life Give me a sign, a sign, a sign They think they know me very well Left here with no one but myself Watch time pass by Oh my