Tight Rope-Brother Ali

[00:25.16]Frigid frozen Minnesota [00:27.05]Chip on his shoulder [00:28.49]Sick sleeping on a pissy sofa [00:30.42]Unwanted visitor in a different culture [00:32.91]Missing home and he can't go their civil waring [00:35.85]Listen solider forget getting over [00:38.16]Prison state around the corner homless is even closer [00:40.97]Kids with similar skin color still don't even wantcha [00:43.83]Spit and insult ya cause they have been here longer [00:46.27]He leave his crib he guaranteed the pigs approach ya [00:48.82]Where ya going where ya from any weapons on ya [00:51.51]Your family is stressed out your getting older [00:53.88]You don't live the way they did back in Somalia [00:56.57]It's extra difficult to be a daughter [00:59.13]Trying to keep it modest with sinners all around you [01:01.62]Where the wrong garment your parents get an ulcer [01:04.12]If you wrap it up the other children picking on you [01:07.55]Live in two worlds with your eyes closed [01:09.74] [01:10.60]Tip toeing on a tight rope [01:12.48] [01:13.04]Holding on for survival [01:15.53]Nobody to blame this is just how it goes [01:17.98]Live in two worlds with your eyes closed [01:20.79]Tip toeing on a tight rope [01:23.04] [01:23.60]Holding on for survival [01:26.09]Nobody to blame this is just how it goes [01:28.34]Holidays and you know what the business is [01:30.84]You get two birthdays and two Christmases [01:33.46]Older you get you resent how sick it is [01:36.27]They're trying to cover their guilt with the gifts they give [01:39.14]Bounce from his house to her house [01:40.57]Too bad that marriage didn't work out [01:42.38]Now you don't have a your house [01:43.89]Daddy fighting mommy they both tell me they love me [01:46.46]If I get to close to one the other one start acting funny [01:49.56]Ma went and had a baby with a different dad [01:52.30]You act happy to please em but you are really sad [01:54.61]Seeing first hand that family that you will never have [01:57.28]Plus you ain't no real brother you're just a half [02:00.22]Got to pick up the pieces and move on [02:02.46]Bed time stories and greet them on the phone [02:04.97]Live in two houses and neither one is home [02:07.47]Wishing you were grown have the freedom to get gone [02:10.65]Live in two worlds with your eyes closed [02:13.02] [02:13.83]Tip toeing on a tight rope [02:15.70] [02:16.45]Holding on for survival [02:18.82]Nobody to blame this is just how it goes [02:21.32]Live in two worlds with your eyes closed [02:24.00]Tip toeing on a tight rope [02:26.37] [02:27.00]Holding on for survival [02:29.37]Nobody to blame this is just how it goes [02:31.80]Daddy was a preacher momma was a Sunday school teacher [02:34.83]Big brother football squad leader [02:36.58]Now far be it for you to disappoint or displease them [02:40.14]Your just being what you feel you see in [02:42.45]That mirror every time you peer in [02:44.58]Swallow the tears inside that empty feeling [02:47.28]Her boy terrified to let the world in [02:49.95]He has girlfriends but doesn't want a girlfriend [02:52.82]He retreats inside himself [02:55.01]Where he lives life itself in secret [02:57.88]Daddy says people go to hell for being [03:00.45]What he is and he certainly believes them [03:03.44]Cause there ain't no flame that can blaze enough [03:06.12]To trump being hated for the way you love [03:08.80]And cry yourself to sleep and hate waking up [03:11.24]It's a cold world y'all shame on us [03:13.36] [03:13.98]Live in two worlds with your eyes closed [03:16.29] [03:17.16]Tip toeing on a tight rope [03:19.10] [03:19.91]Holding on for survival [03:22.22]Nobody to blame this is just how it goes [03:24.60]Live in two worlds with your eyes closed [03:27.47]Tip toeing on a tight rope [03:29.66] [03:30.34]Holding on for survival [03:32.72]Nobody to blame this is just how it goes