Tip The Scale-The Roots/Dice Raw

[00:00.00]The Roots - Tip the Scale(feat. Dice Raw) [00:00.15] [00:14.73]Homicide or suicide [00:16.58]Heads or tails [00:18.34]Some think life is a living hell [00:21.45]Some live life just living well [00:24.43]I live life tryna tip the scale [00:27.52]My way, my way [00:34.09]My way, my way [00:38.38] [00:40.03]Yo, I’m always early [00:41.75]I never take off cause I got a job [00:44.83]Rob Peter to pay Paul [00:46.55]Now I realize it’s the winner that takes all [00:49.65]Do what I gotta do because I can’t take loss [00:53.00]Picture me living life as if I’m some animal [00:56.11]That consumes its own dreams like I’m a cannibal [00:59.35]I won’t accept failure unless it’s mechanical [01:02.62]But still the alcohol mixed with the botanical [01:05.79]I guess I be referred to the owners manual full of loaners [01:10.31]Full of all the homeless throwaways and the stoners [01:13.29]Soldiers of the streets with 8th grade diplomas [01:16.69]And the world awaiting their shoulders as a bonus [01:19.62]Look, let he without sin live without sin [01:21.82]Until then, I’ll be doing dirty jobs like swamp men [01:27.04]Counting the faces of those that might have been [01:30.37]It’s like living that life but I won’t live that life again [01:32.60] [01:33.21]Homicide or suicide [01:34.58]Heads or tails [01:36.31]Some think life is a living hell [01:39.05]Some live life just living well [01:42.08]I live life tryna tip the scale [01:45.30]My way, my way [01:51.67]My way, my way [01:56.84] [01:58.16]Lot of n*ggas go to prison [02:00.05]How many come out Malcolm X? [02:01.74]I know I'm not [02:03.25]****, can't even talk about the rest [02:05.07]Famous last words: "You under arrest" [02:08.18]Will I get popped tonight? It's anybody's guess [02:11.99]I guess a n*gga need to stay cunning [02:14.37]I guess when the cops comin' need to start runnin' [02:17.48]I won't make the same mistakes from my last run in [02:21.21]You either done doing crime now or you done in [02:24.87]I got a brother on the run and one in [02:28.31]Wrote me a letter, he said when you comin' [02:31.19]**** man, I thought the goal's to stay out [02:34.23]Back against the wall, then shoot your way out [02:37.48]Gettin' money's a style that never plays out [02:40.50]'Til you end up boxin' your stash, money's paid out [02:43.83]The scales of justice ain't equally weighed out [02:46.81]Only two ways out, digging tunnels or digging graves out [02:50.45] [02:50.98]Homicide or suicide [02:52.38]Heads or tails [02:53.73]Some think life is a living hell [02:56.89]Some live life just living well [03:00.08]I live life tryna tip the scale [03:03.31]My way, my way [03:09.73]My way, my way [03:20.91]