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Drowning
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Hip-Hop/Rap
Drowning was released on May 2, 2006 by Native Guns as a part of the album Barrel Men
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Release DateMay 2, 2006
LabelNative Guns
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM95

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Music Video

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Lyrics

Christine, young queen from around the block
Walking through the neighborhood to the sounds of Pac
If you seen her off the top, you would say she looks so lovely
But every day she tell herself she was so ugly
Say her butt was too big, nose too flat
Skin too dark and lips too fat
All that blush and eye shadow just to cover the fact
What was hiding under that was her stuck in a trap
Wanted to look like a model in a magazine
Didn't care if Martin Luther King had a dream
All she wanted was a reason for some self-esteem
And to think Christine was only seventeen
Started seeing white dudes to make her feel special
Started to take the self-hate to another level
Alcohol to weed, weed to cocaine
Whatever it would take so she could feel no pain
It was a cold game, her freedom never came
Pipe to her fat lips, needle to her vein
And when emotion silently she said, "Ready, aim"
Looked at the mirror and she put the heater to her brain
I'm drowning, but I just can't get up
Gasp before I let a quick breath, before my body gives up
I'm living like prepared to die, tell my momma, "Don't wait up"
'Cause I'm battling the beast tonight and the men they made of
I'm drowning, but I just can't get up
Gasp before I let a quick breath, before my body gives up
I'm living like prepared to die, tell my momma, "Don't wait up"
'Cause I'm battling the beast tonight and the men they made of
Fifteen, just a boy and he tattooed up
Bald head, brown skin, had an old man gut
He had an old man struck for many years in the hood
His presence by itself had the police shook
'Cause he was young, he was brown, he was down with the set
Uh, but that ain't really what had the police upset
See at sixteen he was so far up ahead of his grade
He's the hope of the ghetto, he's gon' get us all saved
Straight A student, he was graduating early
Full scholarship to any Cali university
So early Thursday, January thirty, knocks came
"Lone gunmen on the loose" and he kinda got the same frame
He went to trial at the age of sixteen
And the judge even fit his doing adult things
So as they raped him in prison, little boy doing life
Could only escape by wondering what college was like
I'm drowning, but I just can't get up
Gasp before I let a quick breath, before my body gives up
I'm living like prepared to die, tell my momma, "Don't wait up"
'Cause I'm battling the beast tonight and the men they made of
I'm drowning, but I just can't get up
Gasp before I let a quick breath, before my body gives up
I'm living like prepared to die, tell my momma, "Don't wait up"
'Cause I'm battling the beast tonight and the men they made of
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