(Ft Linkin Park)

like an army falling one by one by one...

I'm suppose to be the soilder

Who never blows his composure

Even though I hold the weight of the whole World on his 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 benzene Oh

It don't matter I never drag em in battles that I can handle

Unless I absolutely have to I'm supposed to set an example 

I need to be the leader my crew looks to me to guide em.

Here's some shit up to pop off I'm supposed to be beside em

That Jhonson I try to squash it it was too late to stop it

There's a certain line, you don't cross and he crossed it

I hear they say the name of the haters in a song and I just lost it

It was crazy this shit went way beyond some Jay Z and some NAS shit.

Even know that battle was gonna feel like we lost it

I spent so much energy on it ..Honestly I'm exhausted.

I'm so caught in it I feel I'm the one who caused it

This ain't what I'm in Hip hop for that's not why I got in it

That was never my object, for someone to get killed

Why would I wanna destroy something I helped build.

It wasn't my intentions, my intentions were good 

I went though my whole career without out ever mentioning it 

And that was just out of respect for not running my mouth

and talking about something that I knew nothing about 

Plus DRE. told me to stay out, it just wasn't my beef. 

So I did, I just fell back watched and gritted my teeth

While He's all over the TV

He literally saved my life and I'm like Fuck it I understand

This is business and this just isn't none of my business

But still no one should pop off at any minute.

Like an army falling, one by one by one (X 6)

There used to be a time when you could just say a rhyme an

you 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

the Shit gets escalated, it ain't just worse no more is it?

It's a different ball game, you calling names and you ain't just rapping

We actually tried to stop the 50 and the Ja beef from happenin.

Me and Dre had sat wit him, kicked it, and had a chat wit em and asked him

not to start it and he wasn't going to go after him till Ja started yappin at him. And I was MAD and had to stab him. Fuck em 50 , smash em and mash em and let him have it. Meanwhile my intentions were pulling in another direction so reception has set the source where this was supposing was destined and the direction was for me, he thinks I'd be his resurrection.

And he trys to blow the dust off his mic and make a new record. But now he's

flunked and came up which is one of the ways I came up was through that publication the single that made me famous. Now the older profit has got a grudge at me for nothin. Well fuck it, that mother fucker is gonna get it too. Fuck em then. But I'm supposed to be so supremely pissed off I don't stop and think that we just inherited 50's beef with Murder Ink. And he's inherited mine which is fine it ain't like either of us mine as we got solders on the front line willing to die for us as soon as we give the orders. Never to extort us strictly to show that they support us and maybe shout em out in a rap up in the chorus and show em that we love em back

and let em know how important it is that we have an avenue and to have so many solders up in our corners. The loyalty to us is worth more than any orders, but I ain't tryin to have any of my people hurt or murdered it ain't worth it and I can't think of a perfector way to word it then to say I just love ya'll too much to see the verdict. I walk away from it all till I let it go any further. I told you to twist it, it's not a plea that I'm poppin I'm just willing to be the bigger man you all can quit poppin off at the jaws with a knock'in, He's right I'm sick of talkin , I'm not gonna let someone Else's coughing pistol my conscience.

Like an Army falling. One by one by one (X5)

Love and lie we meant

And Promises that never came

Sent their silence rain to wash away the worst of me

Like an army falling, one by one by one

Like an army falling, one by one by one

Like an army falling, one by one by one

Like an army falling, one by one by one

Like an army falling, one by one by one