The Cycle - Ill Bill, William Cooper, Trife Diesel

You can hear the strings of the violin welcome me in

Feels like the pain under your skin when you livin' in sin

Sounds of a dirty syringe, heroin gon' swim

Polluting the souls of the project kids

Born to drug fiends, growin' up to jail bids

Broken dreams and promises fuel gang violence and

Pigs always show up when the guns is done firing

Another family crying, another funeral

Another retaliation, another burial

And that cycle gonna continue until you see the God in you

Kings and queens of the earth with a lethal virtue

Crack rocks shape the block like an earthquake do

Drive-bys in the hood with the plates removed

Bandanna gun handle for the flag you choose

Putting they conscience to sleep when them hammers is used

Penetrate the penitentiary swallowing balloons

Poison the prison system crushed glass in your food

History repeats itself (The Cycle)

Kids having kids killing kids (The Cycle)

Drug addiction gettin' passed down through the umbilical

Until you wake up you’re just a slave to the cycle

You can hear the snatch of click like hollow tips when you fillin' the clip

Hundred dollar spliffs spillin' the piff

You don’t even get high anymore barely feelin' the lift

You need a whole fifth of whisky to drift

Take it back to the cycle that twist (?)

Like a python to eat itself to muffle it’s hiss n a puddle of piss

Self-destructive pitch drunk in the whip

Jump the curb struck a bitch and hit her mother and her kid

Ain’t nothing new under the solar system

Cause even in the summer time the soul of the street is ice cold like winter

Deep freeze like 40 below booze (?)

And no more fights around here no more the shorty’s all shoot

Three sixty round table

Shot with a three-pound four Gs is piece and the cable (?)

Different generation same shit though

Same blood thirst, same ignorance

Same motivation when the gun bursts

It’s like a cycle

Some will go home some will go witness

Like somebody gotta lose in order for you to win

You got your delicate predicate felons who couldn’t swim

Got caught up in a tide now he’s facing a five to ten

Try to game but who sayin' bucks you slang dusk (?)*

Now you came up get *

You can’t trust niggas around who permanently press you

These niggas bank for they colors but they don’t really rep you

Hang you out to dry, got they crooked eyes all in your spot

Airing out your dirty laundry now they all in your socks

Wolves in sheep clothing, heat holding, calling the cops

Got the police rolling out of (beats) controlling the block

You was on top now you in a box caged in

Through the years full of cheer now your world’s caved in

Born and raised in a family of made * ??

A cycle’s still repeated at the day’s end and grey jims (?)