Guard Your Heart

Yeah, oh yeah

I'm broken in pieces down to the soul

I know the whole world can feel it

I know that they can see it

Oh, I hate to admit that I need you, I need you, I need you

Next to me

You said that you were right for me

And I hear you

But right now I need to feel you right next to me

'Cause this all I got, prove that you got me

Oh yeah, oh yeah

Broken pieces

'Cause this all I got, prove that you got me

Yeah

So if you "Nigga," then I'm say, "Is that a Ritz?"

Fifty niggas deep (deep) hundred niggas step

Million Man march (Mmm), cracker don't you start (Yeah)

Hold yo head, guard yo heart, hold yo head (uh)

Nigga, get yo bread, light yo spark, strike yo mark, life don't stop

Hold yo head, guard yo heart, hold yo head

Conflicted in this free based world of give and take

'Cause I always rather give than to be the one sayin' thanks

Conflicted like bein' signed to Ye and managed by Jay

Conflicted like bein' cool with Pusha and Drake

Conflicted like reppin' a city where I hardly stay

Or knowin' that you wrong but its too hard to say

Hold yo head, guard yo heart

In my life, those were the hardest parts

So many dark times I wish I caught a spark

Or learned not seein' eye to eye could be fixed with a heart to heart (God)

So many lost, I feel lost, got me feelin' like a real nigga Holocaust

Got me mournin' while its dark (Dark)

Life will eat you alive, we know how to be a meal

Shit, rather than see a mill to make it out you need a skill (Yeah)

Though I was past my past, but let's be clear

Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear

Regrettin' everything in life is my only fear

And you know what they say about not conquerin' fears (What?)

If you don't then they'll always be near

As that reminder in your ear, shit that I ain't trying to hear (Nah)

Hold yo head, guard yo heart

In my life, those were the hardest parts

Oh, you mistake me fallin' down for fallin' off

Or mistake me bein' soft for speakin' from the heart

I guess life hasn't taught you as much as you thought

Instead of pickin' up yo missin' pieces, you pick me apart

Boy, hold yo head but guard yo heart

Got tired of white silence so the riots started

And the robbers robbed, you wylin' 'cause yo product gone

We mad that Eric Garner, Breonna, Gianna father gone

Yeah a lot of trauma, we tired, exhasted

Ermias the prophet said it'd be a marathon

Seen all my dogs, shown me God was watchin'

Pandemic slowin' 'em down, they fastin', Ramadan

The land of fifty stars on Hollywood marchin'

White friends don't got us, I promise you I block 'em

I'ma count my bread, I defied the odds

And **** the Saint quarterback 'cause he ain't Saint Laurent

Boy, from here on out we are in Peyer Moss

If we leave Reebok, we still bringing pumps and all the broads

I motivate (I motivate) I don't divide (I don't divide)

The 45 a coward for practicing otherwise

A burnt nation, said it's under God

Now gone throw the towel in, I'm by my brother side

Yo nigga be yo nigga when you level up

You see that yo niggas and brothers different when luck is up

So I trust nothing, this industry's something

My biggest rival is my mind protectin' my thoughts as well as my heart

It's fifty niggas deep, 100 niggas step

Million Man march, cracker don't you start

Hold yo head, guard yo heart, hold yo head

Nigga, get yo bread, light yo spark, strike yo mark, life don't stop

So hold yo head, guard yo heart, hold yo head

Yeah