lyrics: fort minor - back home lyrics album: the rising tied watch music video hot! back home lyrics by fort minor. back home everybody's searching for somethin' but all they can find is a whole lot of nothin' back home ain't nobody hoping and praying 'cause they feel like nothing can save 'em and they try to hold out but they can't fight the fact that life goes black when those lights go out but i guess you gotta just watch out for your own 'cause ain't a damn thing free back home back home they holler "disciple" and "blackstone" same block they freebase yo we trapped on where our grandmothers marched the guns clap on there's liquor stores, beauty supplies, and rap songs i travel the world just to come back to it the crib got a lot of soul like black music i'm attached to it in many ways the city raised me and gave me the drama, honor, and bravery the streets seem hollow when i go to chicago it's cheap wine and sorrow times is hard to swallow in search of god's tomorrow i borrow words from the bible and use them for survival gangs rival signs painted on walls like hieroglyphics i tell 'em that this is all tribal used to do dirt shorty's goin' through the same cycle and trials like michael tryin' not to stay idle back home it's not compton but close the same problems exist and the pain throbbin' and folks are so common it don't really bother us much we just swallow it uh crack the bottle and smoke hope tomorrow something magical happens that'll put me back in the biz but the chances of it actually happening's kinda slim back home we get the good life at a glimpse in the form of a rap star, drug dealers, and pimps i'm back home back home i try my best to keep it together it's cold like the windy city streets of december i pace back and forth looking for the courage to shine but can't tap the source need something to nourish my mind i know we all lose quite a bit in life only to gain some life of the dark winding roads we came from but i move with the night so i'm used to the shade and never lose sight bringing truth back to the game back home we've got a lot of shit on our minds we're always behind on something cause there's not enough time and we're non-stop bottom line doing what we gotta do to get some food in the fridge and stay out of the hosptial back home there's people calling us hopeless people trying to tell us all we need is some focus but focus focus is overrated cause you see every blemish and mistake and can't change it back home is alvarado k-town and j-town or little tokyo for those that don't know where figures shiver living right inside the la river on the concrete a symbol of our everyday way its that color and concentration over the heavy and grey and by the time the ink dries on this page i'll be half a day away from the place where i stay ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- lyrics: fort minor - battle lyrics album: the rising tied watch music video hot! battle lyrics by fort minor. battle - fort minor these hungry rappers battle for a buck and some change there really be kids starving give a fuck if it change shock rap not that you get signed you might blow up release party in iraq. you might blow up i see you trying to think a few lines you might get at me with slap happy with babies who're born with crack in they cribs too much to cram under you oversized titled and the public system failed you either you ignore it or... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- lyrics: fort minor - believe me lyrics album: the rising tied watch music video hot! believe me lyrics by fort minor. believe me - fort minor yeah! i guess that this is where we've come to if you don't want to then you don't have to believe me but i won't be there when you go down just so you know now you're on your own now believe me do what i have to do you're on your own now believe me what ever happens to you you're on your own now believe me what do i have to say you're on your own now believe me it's not gonna happen to me you're on your own now believe me ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- lyrics: fort minor - cigarettes lyrics album: the rising tied watch music video hot! cigarettes lyrics by fort minor. man i love this rap game mainly cuz its cool to add a little spice to the life you've been through everyone exaggerates a tiny little bit to make that shit sound more gangster than it really is you cant appear weak man we wanna hear street wanna hear you spit your thug over this here beat dont take it as sarcastic i can't get enough im telling you you can call my bluff if it's not rough, then i really don't need it i'm not even ashamed i got too much reality thats filling up my brain so sell me on that chronic, i'm addicted to the game suck it up like a cigarette, light it up its just like a cigarette, its something that i do once in awhile but between me and you its just like a cigarette nobody's really fooled i dont want the truth, i wanna feel fucking cool let me tell you something that i realized tonight my hip hop radio is like marlboro lights they're both selling stories and they sound about the same cigarettes say their safe, wrappers claim they really bang we dont care if it's true when we lay the money down we don't believe the words, we just love the way they sound they're acting like we're idiots, they're lying to our face maybe we are idiots, we buy it anyway i'm runnin out to get the next rapper's cd just suckin up the guns, drugs, and misogyny the same way that i suck up all the stories when i breathe that little bit of death supposedly cancer-free and everything they say's got the truth twisted up but twisted up's what i want man, i can't get enough cuz even though we know it's all just a big bluff we just light another up, what we don't give a fuck its just like a cigarette, its something that i do once in awhile but between me and you its just like a cigarette nobody's really fooled i dont want the truth, i wanna feel fucking cool its just like a cigarette, its something that i do over and over but between me and you its just like a cigarette nobody's really fooled i dont want the truth, i wanna feel fucking cool listen to the words, listen for awhile lip service radio, dont touch the dial if you're in the car turn up the track man give the whole neighborhood some second hand rap matter of fact listen to the words, listen for awhile lip service radio, dont touch the dial if you're in the car turn up the track man give the whole neighborhood some second hand rap its just like a cigarette, its something that i do once in awhile but between me and you its just like a cigarette nobody's really fooled i dont want the truth, i wanna feel fucking cool its just like a cigarette, its something that i do over and over but between me and you its just like a cigarette nobody's really fooled i dont want the truth, i wanna feel fucking cool ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- lyrics: fort minor - feel like home lyrics album: the rising tied watch music video hot! feel like home lyrics by fort minor. these days are dark and the nights are cold people acting like they lost their soul and everywhere i go i see another person like me trying to make it all feel like home standing on the bridge in teh dark and i'm seeing my breath trying to make it home without freezing to death and my grandfather's face is stuck in my mind mind and how seeing him tonight's gonna be the last time i should've brought a jacket blowing in my hands like it's really gonna stop the chill i buy a cup of coffee with a five dollar bill thinking laying in that box people look so still at times like these you start thinking your first breath in and the clock starts ticking i'm not trying to bum anyone out not trying to be dramatic just thinking out loud i'm just trying to make some sense in my mind some defense from the cold that i'm feeling outside and for a minute escape with some rhythm and rhyme and get away from the grey just a bit at a time kinda funny how this world can treat you like a freak in a sideshow a carnival creature climbing outta cans i'm a diamond in the sand but you cant tell the difference on a beach full of rhinestones my life's like trying to swallow a pinecone it's tough when you live fast just to die slow talk to dial tones my dreams are far-fetched it seems so i sleep underneath this park bench i know it don't make sense and i don't expect you to know what it's like smoke drink piss sniffing everything in my sight push rocks in a pipe liftoff i keep puffin 'til my lips turn white and my chest gets tight but who the fuck really cares when you're so far left behind that even death looks right all i can do is hope for teh best and pray that it gets a little better than yesterday pardon me i think i'm nect to url too many problems going on that's why i left my girl packed my bags and traveled with a pen and a notepad pissed that i was broke and all the things that i dont have but still i try toi find a way to escape from all teh hate planted in my head which lead to mistakes but now i'm breaking the mold see i was patient and calm many sleep in