Tried By 12

[00:10.32]Don't say sticks and stones [00:12.00]They might break your bones [00:13.25]But the nine millimeter, it'll bore your dome [00:15.65]I'm talkin about the toe-taggin [00:17.22]Huh, the body-baggin [00:19.07]Man, *************s are dyin, huh, mommas are cryin, casket buyin [00:22.31]Who, me dyin, leave my family cryin? [00:24.53]Hell no, I cause, um, bloodbaths and showers [00:26.88]Send me commissary, mother************* them flowers [00:29.46]Thoughts of slaughter, of leaving my daughters [00:32.04]Hours and hours of fears running through my mind [00:34.61]As I pick up the Zig 9 [00:36.29]Beef starts with the shove and ends with the shovel [00:39.96]And *************s standing on your corner reminiscing of you [00:42.87]But your ass is out and you're dead and gone [00:45.20]So who'd you rather be? [00:46.85]The murdered, or the murderer? [00:48.63]*************s got me stressed - I got my Tek and my vest [00:51.86]And I sing who Jah bless, let no man curse [00:54.06]Or one of us will leave here tonight in a hearse [00:56.74]For we'll be tried by 12 [00:58.26]And fertilizing daisies [00:59.76]Crying mommas and cousins and crying babies [01:02.28]Due to the fact that death is a must [01:04.65]Ashes to ashes and dust to dust [01:07.47]*************s getting bust [01:08.97]For in God we trust [01:10.25]So if you're comin to my town and try to slow the dough down [01:12.48]You must be casket-bound [01:14.26][01:25.46][02:15.41][02:25.96] [01:14.81][01:23.06][02:15.97][02:23.44]Cause I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6 [01:16.90][02:18.38]************* [01:17.71]I sign my name on the book at your funeral [01:19.71][02:20.93]The Zig's on my hip with an extra clip [01:25.98]La-di-da-di [01:27.51]Saturday night and we like to party [01:29.83]The punks are ************* around so we might catch a body [01:32.54]Early Sunday morning, don't really wanna hurt nobody [01:35.80]So what they tryin to get? [01:37.52]I already got it [01:38.60]Chump mother******s just a-schemin on my *************t [01:41.13]But little do they know I got the Zig on my hip with an extra clip [01:44.97]And I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6 [01:47.81]Aw *************t - murder commit [01:50.10]And there goes another statistic runnin' through ballistic [01:52.70]The witness say I'm wicked [01:54.45]But that's how I kick it [01:55.44]Cause I'll be the bastard who blasts and didn't get blasted [01:58.04]Boy kiss dem casket [02:00.07]I cut your wig back kid [02:01.63]Sucker, look who died [02:03.16]Body will be identified [02:05.04]Momma and poppa will cry, *************-ass man says he'll testify [02:08.62]To see me tried, but here's I slide [02:11.61]Upon the same corner that you did [02:13.79]And I'm still facing a bid [02:18.97]I sign my name at the book at your funeral