Inside Out chords by Mars Ill
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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(Verse 1)
Building in a cell block,
shocked at the mystery
Unlocked the misery kept inside
his body's chemistry
And when he's by himself,
he has to cry to keep on living
Reads letters from his children from
far outside the prison
And it isn't enough that he didn't pull
that trigger
Just a neighborhood fixture on the
corner drinking liquor
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A two- time offender who got
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caught up in the moment
Was close by when a robbery was
operated sloppily
And somebody got shot and son
was fingered in the line- up
Tossed into a 6x9, stuck
because his time's up
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Fine luck, had to beat a brother
on his first day
To protect his own best interest
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in like the worst way
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Blames the system that built
jails instead of schools
Blames religion as a set of
useless rules
Blames his father that
he never even knew
Looks in the mirror. Yeah,
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he blames him too...
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Verse 2
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(Verse 2) He starts
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to read books,
an empowered resolution
Malcolm, Dr. King,
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Mumia and Huey Newton
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Learns that nothing worth having
is ever gon' be easy
He studies philosophy while
everyone's watching TV
And after 33 weeks,
he starts to do the science
Sees God's handwriting there
underneath the fine print
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It had been there all along just wait
ing for him to find it
But he'd been blinded by his time
spent trying to fight it
But the spark ignited the
fuel inside him
And now he holds the flame
that burns the brightest
Because the slightest touch from the heavens
can heavily change the tides
Or tip the scales to either side
of the problems in our lives
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He found faith in a cage and his
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mind's already free
And he can float through these walls
far beyond what he can see
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He sees his cell as a cross
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that he'll carry if need be
But of course his body wants to join
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his soul and be free...
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(Verse 3) So he's
a new man,
motivated to slice through the hatred
And radiate to those that play with death
and want to take his breath
He'll make each step count
for something greater
Understands that he can hate the game
and still love the players
He shares his cell with another one- strike-
too- many- type of Jon Doe
Who wants his rights back
though
The conversation words flow and
get kind of thorough
And it just so happens that
they're from the same borough
From the same neighborhood,
from off the same freeway
From the same ghetto and from
the same PJ's
And Jon Doe knows how
his situation started
How kids were busting shots at
their local supermarket
On that one fateful night that changed
our hero's life
And how he got knocked wrongfully
and how it isn't right
But strangely,
our man is calm and doesn't lose sight
He knows that he was broken so
that he could find Christ
And for that he's thankful,
no shank pulled got him
He's never felt so high while he was
standing at the bottom
And after six months,
a judge heard his appeal
Released into a city that becomes
his mission field
He pulls a free breath that feels
fresh despite all the smog
He used to hit the bottle
but now he fights for God
And since he's seen it all, he can
say what it's about
And to think this all started from the inside
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Inside Out
Mars Ill
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