Ballad Of A Dead Soulja by Tupac Shakur

Yeah ballad of a dead soldier
This is the ballad of a dead soldier
This is the ballad of a dead soldier
Come play the ballad of a dead soldier

The plan, to take command of the whole family
Though underhanded, to be the man it was planned
All my road dawgs official mob niggaz love to act up
The first to bomb but we rob niggaz I can be lost in my own mind
To be the boss only thought's grip on chrome nines
Niggaz get tossed up, war scars, battlefield memories
Swore I saw the Devil in my empty glass of Hennessey

Talkin' to a nigga on a tight leash
Screamin' fuck the police as I ride through the night streets
Lil' child runnin' wild, toward his danger
What's the cause don't be alarmed death to all strangers
Maybe I'm a madman
A pistol grabbin' nigga unleash the Sandman
Promisin' merciless retaliation, nothin' is colder
Close your eyes, hear the ballad of a dead soldier

Thug for life I will be
(This is the ballad of a dead soldier)
A life of crime I will lead
(Close your eyes, hear the ballad of a dead soldier)
If you play the game, you play to win
(This is the ballad of a dead soldier)
It's a crazy world full of sin
(Close your eyes)

Completely lost, revenge at all costs
Pay back's a bitch, switch now the trick's crossed
Tossed up and never to be heard of
A single witness screamin' bloody murder, murder
Blast tell me homey what you see now?
A blind man and a dead body, I'm read' to leave town
And get my cash though, hook up with Kastro
Homey had to blast on the task force

Stupid coppers tried to play us out, never that
They took my money and my stash, time to get 'em back
Upon my secret arrival two glock four-fives, time for survival
Death to my rivals, tell me what you want Lord?
Nobody left after the death of a drug Lord, the situation's critical
Nothin' is colder than hear the ballad of a dead soldier

Thug for life I will be
(This is the ballad of a dead soldier)
A life of crime I will lead
(Close your eyes and hear the ballad of a dead soldier)
If you play the game, you play to win
(This is the ballad of a dead soldier)
It's a crazy world full of sin
(Close your eyes and hear the ballad of a dead soldier)

Be a coward, put yo' hands to the moon
When my glocks rang out, the niggaz came out boom
Who wanna see me in the challenge?
So merciless I'm terrifyin' niggaz in my ballads, do you feel me?
Capo or Capitan, one day I'll be the Don until then, remain strong
My only fear of death is reincarnation
Bustin' at my adversaries like a mental patient

To all my niggaz facin' sixty years, sheddin' tattooed tears
Another suicidal on the peer
Takin' private planes, tryin' to survive the game
For all my homies that'll never be alive again
All he promised us is death nigga
Take a breath come be the last one left nigga, it's real now
Villain to fantasize, ain't nothin' colder
Listen you can hear it the ballad of a dead soldier

Thug for life I will be
(This is the ballad of a dead soldier)
A life of crime I will lead
(Close your eyes hear the ballad of a dead soldier)
If you play the game, you play to win
(This is the ballad of a dead soldier)
It's a crazy world full of sin
(Close your eyes and hear the ballad of a dead soldier)

This go out to Cato, Mental
(This is the ballad of a dead soldier)
All the niggaz that passed away
To Geronimo [Incomprehensible] all the down ass riders
(Close your eyes ballad of a dead soldier)
All the niggaz that put it down, all the soldiers
All the niggaz that go through that day to day struggled
This is the ballad of a dead soldier
All the niggaz that passed on
All the niggaz with ambition and money in they heart

All the niggaz that want some and that don't take none
It's the ballad of a dead soldier
The police are so scared of us
All the feds they aware of us
They wanna see us dead
They got pictures of a nigga head
Ballad of a dead soldier
Tryin' to see me in chains, shit

Them niggaz'll never breathe again
Before they put me in a cell they'll see me in Hell
'Cause it's the ballad of a dead soldier
Got my pistols cocked
Run the whole motherfuckin' block, fuck the cops
The police? We run these streets nigga
Ain't heard the ballad of a dead soldier
These niggaz can't see me, half the world wanna be me
Multi-millionaire shit, it ain't fair but nigga, you know
It's the ballad of a dead soldier

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