Like Toy Soldiers

Like Toy Soldiers - Straight Up

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We all fall down

Step by step heart to heart left right left

We all fall down like toy soldiers

Bit by bit torn apart

We never win but the battle

Wages on for toy soldiers

I'm suppose to be the soldier

Who never blows his composure

Even though I hold the weight of

The whole world on my shoulders

I ain't never suppose to show it

My crew ain't suppose to know it

Even if it means going toe to toe

With the benzino it don't matter

I never drag 'em in battles that

I can handle less I absolutely have to

I'm suppose to set an example

I need to be the leader

My crew looks for me to guide 'em

If some sh*t ever just pop off

I'm suppose to be beside 'em

That ja sh*t I tried to squashed it

It was too late to stop it

There's a certain line you just don't cross

It Crossed it

I heard him say hailie's name

On a song and I just lost it

It was crazy this sh*t went way beyond

Some jay and nas sh*t

And even though the battle was won

I feel like we lost it

I spent so much energy on it

Honestly I'm exhausted

I'm so caught it I almost feel like

I'm the one who caused it

This ain't what I'm in hip hop for

It's not why I got in it

That was never my object

For someone to get killed

Why would I want to destroy

Something I helped build

It wasn't my intentions

My intentions were good

I went through my whole career

With out ever mentioning

And that's just outta respect

For not running my mouth

And talking about something

That I knew nothing about

Plus dre told me stay out

Just wasn't my beef so I did

I just fell back watched and gritted

My teeth while he's all over tv

Now I'm talking a man who literally

Saved my life like f**k it

I understand this is business and this sh*t

Just isn't none of my business

But still knowing this sh*t could pop off

At any minute cause

Step by step heart to heart left right left

We all fall down like toy soldiers

Bit by bit torn apart

We never win but the battle

Wages on for toy soldiers

It used to be a time when

You could just say a rhyme

And wouldn't have to worry

About one of your people dying

But now it's elevated cause once you

Put someone's kids in it

Sh*t gets escalated

It ain't just words no more is it

It's a different ball game

Call names and you ain't just rapping

We actually tried to stop the 50

And ja beef from happening

Me and dre had sat with him

Kicked it and had a chat with him

And asked him not to start it

He wasn't gonna go after him

Until ja' start yappin' in

Magazines how he stabbed him

F**k 'em 50 smash him mash him

And let him have it

Meanwhile my intentions pulled

Me in other directions

Some receptionist said the source

Who answers phones at his desk

Has an erection for me and thinks

That I'll be his resurrection

Tries to blow the dust of his mic

And make a new record

But now he's f**ked the game up

Cause one of the ways I came up

Was through that publication

The same one that made me famous

Now the owner of it got a grudge

Against me for nothing but f**k it

That motherf**ker can get it too f**k 'em then

But I'm so busy being pissed off

I don't stop to think

That we just inherited 50's beef with murder inc

And he's inherited mine which is fine

Ain't like either of us mind

We still have soldiers that's on

The front line that's willing to die for us

As soon as we give the orders never to extort us

Strictly to show they support us

Maybe shout 'em out in a rap or up in a chorus

To show we love 'em back

And to let 'em know how important it is to have

Runyon avenue soldiers up in our corners

Their loyalty to us is worth more

Then any award is

But I ain't trying to have none of

My people hurt or murdered

It ain't worth it I can't think of

A perfecter way to word it

Then to just say that I love y'all

Too much to see the verdict

I'll walk away from it all before

I'll let it go any further

But don't get it twisted

It's not a plea that I'm coping

I'm just willing to be the bigger man

If y'all can quit popping off

At the jaws with the knocking

'Cause frankly I'm sick of talking

I'm not gonna let someone else's coffin rest

On my conscience 'cause

Step by step heart to heart left right left

We all fall down like toy soldiers

Bit by bit torn apart

We never win but the battle

Wages on for toy soldiers