Carry Me Away

Carry Me Away - Cypress Hill/Mike Shinoda

I was an outcast outsider trouble maker

A lost soul outta control in danger

Didn't have a care in the world

My feeling were numb

Never showing emotion it's easy for some

I don't know how it happened

How I got to this point

But I needed a way out I was stuck in a ploy

I needed another path or I'd self destruct

I was down on my luck my head was so f**ked

A menace rolling the streets is what I was

Holding my heat and rolling with the serious thugs

You couldn't tell me a thing I was like my brother

Words went in one ear and out the other

Slanging and banging with a chip on my shoulder

An insane hit the brain

Certified street soldier

So close to the grave

You at an early age

Can't tell you the price I've paid

Oh the sky overhead it's like a canvas of grey

I don't know how much time I'll be given to stay

From the first spring of light

Till the end of the day

I'm just living my life til they come carry me away

I've been there in the LA nights

In the block where I came up

My pops used to hate

When we hanged with them bangers

Guess he knew one day that we'll become us

That's just how it is when you live

Where we come from

Fight don't run is the motto we live by

Get them on the ground and stomp

A mind about ten times

Sure we was just kids back then

I had no remorse for what we did back then

Six of us one call we'd all pack in

Hit the strip and go and get the sh*t crack in

Gun wars and drug deals I seen them happen

When I started losing homeboys

I wasn't laughing

I looked all around and seen none of them there

That's when I figured out that nobody cared

If we lived or die we'll just get high and ride

And I wasn't gonna let this happen one more time

Oh the sky overhead it's like a canvas of grey

I don't know how much time I'll be given to stay

From the first spring of light

Til the end of the day

I'm just living my life til they come carry me away

My mother would stand for me every step of the way

She did not judge me she told me I'd win some day

When I was at my lowest when I had no focus

She pulled me out the gutter

Said I wasn't hopeless

Every night she prayed for me

I was out on the street

Chilling on the corner with the hand on my heat

Eyes open wide for the pigs and foes

It's an every day hazard when you hustle for dough

So many nights I didn't come home

She thought the worst

Maybe somebody shot me down without any remorse

Maybe I hurt somebody and I was stuck in a cell

Well I regret all those time

That I put her through hell

When I reflect back on those days my heart aches

And everybody I lost or let down

I wish I could take it

All back and make it better but I can't

So I try to make amends

And be there through thick and thin

Oh the sky overhead it's like a canvas of grey

I don't know how much time I'll be given to stay

From the first spring of light

Till the end of the day

I'm just living my life

Till they come carry me away

Come carry me away

Come carry me away

Come carry me away

Come carry me away