Trenches

Yeah

Trenches, trenches, trenches

Yeah

(Big Shorty)

You never had no war in the trenches

You never had no beef in the trenches

Man's out, wanna kill you, disappear in the dark like ninjas

Yeah, fall like paper, stages and stages, turning pages

Life is a battlefield, keep it real, keep it real

You never had no war in the trenches

You never had no beef in the trenches

Man's out, wanna kill you, disappear in the dark like ninjas

Yeah, fall like paper, stages and stages, turning pages

Life is a battlefield, keep it real, keep it real

You never had no war in the trenches

You never had no beef in the trenches

Man's out, wanna kill you, disappear in the dark like ninjas

Yeah, fall like paper, stages and stages, turning pages

Life is a battlefield, keep it real, keep it real

Revolution, wait for the rapture

Execution, enemies captured

I'm a fighter, I'm a warrior, I'm a lighter

Igniter, lyrical writer, justice seeker

Black people delegation, liberation situation

Nem straight to the point, no long ting, sniper

And I come from the dark, and it's spotless, I get hyper

Kill the reaper, I'm realer than a gangster, badman killer

Deep conversations with my bredrin Congo Jigga

My soul is black like a 9 millimeter

Sell paper like a drug dealer

Breather and dealer, wrapped up weed behind a Dimplex heater

Life gets harder, I get darker

Pray to my ancestors just to bless my father

Better watch my karma, bulletproof armor

Andre my brother, to his kids, I'm the godfather

What do you rather?

No snakes in the system, kill 'em and bill 'em

Heal and torch 'em, they're little kids that tell little fibs

Devil's in my mind, put a shank in her ribs

I got Hennessy's back like ad-libs

Sometimes I feel my game is dried up like chapped lips

No Vaseline, but for my jumping between, no steam

Turn man green, infrared beam

Join my team, ain't lean

Brand new Nikes and I keep them clean

Keep myself locked in then I keep working

No fiction, no dreaming

Put my mind and pain and shoulders to the grind

I can make it, yes, I can

I'm the man with the big hand, easy peasy lemon squeezy

You never had no war in the trenches

You never had no beef in the trenches

Man's out, wanna kill you, disappear in the dark like ninjas

Yeah, fall like paper, stages and stages, turning pages

Life is a battlefield, keep it real, keep it real

You never had no war in the trenches

You never had no beef in the trenches

Man's out, wanna kill you, disappear in the dark like ninjas

Yeah, fall like paper, stages and stages, turning pages

Life is a battlefield, keep it real, keep it real

You never had no war in the trenches

You never had no beef in the trenches

Man's out, wanna kill you, disappear in the dark like ninjas

Yeah, fall like paper, stages and stages, turning pages

Life is a battlefield, keep it real, keep it real

Poverty turned me evil

Black hoodie with a mask on, trials and tribulations of the trenches

Grown from the hood where the mandem are dangerous

Selling drugs on the streets and you might go missing

Murder with a weapon, you can spend your life in prison

No rhyme or reason, lyrical meaning

Paint the engraving, life is a teaching

On the battlefield, soldiers dead on the floor

When the gunshot sound, don't lose yourself in the trenches

Life is hard, people die every day and a child is born every day

Tell my demons to face me, never misplace me

Red eyes in the dark, and it's hellfire, spotless

Poverty made me the hardest, made me the darkest

Made me the rawest, made me the purest, terrorist lyricist

Street soldier, selling drugs on the corner

Maintain composure, stay focused

Ancestors elevate us

Live your life to the fullest

'Cause when you're dead, you might just regret this

Face facts and you better just build this, take this

When I spit this venom in the track

Better watch for the wolves in the hills and the enemies at your back

I need to focus, solitary confinement

Chase your dreams on the regular, pour my pain on paper

I'm a street soldier, and I keep this culture

I ain't in a chain, you can't beat me

And I'm ready for war like a shank in the hand

You never will see me run

Problems on my shoulders, big like boulders, weighing a ton

When a man gets spun

Lyrical artillery, got plenty

And I spit 'til my clip is empty

You never had no war in the trenches

You never had no beef in the trenches

Man's out, wanna kill you, disappear in the dark like ninjas

Yeah, fall like paper, stages and stages, turning pages

Life is a battlefield, keep it real, keep it real

You never had no war in the trenches

You never had no beef in the trenches

Man's out, wanna kill you, disappear in the dark like ninjas

Yeah, fall like paper, stages and stages, turning pages

Life is a battlefield, keep it real, keep it real

You never had no war in the trenches

You never had no beef in the trenches

Man's out, wanna kill you, disappear in the dark like ninjas

Yeah, fall like paper, stages and stages, turning pages

Life is a battlefield, keep it real, keep it real