World's An Addiction - Nas, Anthony Hamilton

Lies and the pain

Betrayal, life

In danger’s face

Look what you’re facing, gave your heart away

And all the remedies couldn’t ease the pain

All the hurt and betrayal;

need to get away

In a world so cold

You gain your life just to lose your soul

Never thinking twice bout what the future holds

All the lies and the games not worth fighting for

The world is an addiction

Serving up a fix

The world is an addiction

It’s way too much for me

Uhh, snitches and rapists in the street, crime to the fullest

Asking niggas if they got any extra nine bullets

They deny me that, they know the bullets they loan me

Be the same ones that probably had them lying flat

Stretched out, letter T,

it’s better to dead a beef

Than let it breathe, then we don’t succeed

Cause then you gotta murder dummies

Waste your time, they allergic to money

I’m never squirmish to blood

We can thug and get out of hand;

what’s the options?

Only conclusion is shooting, bullets popping, hoodlums dropping

Fear any day that the Feds will come knocking

Was young and nervous, asking myself what’s my purpose?

In the back of a paddy wagon, bracelets aching me

Pigs ignoring, I’m asking what precinct they taking me

These cops can’t relate to me, death to prison, empty vacancy

The world is an addiction

Serving up a fix

The world is an addiction

It’s way too much for me

Thou shall not be selfish, real nigga commandments

Know a billionaire, he has everything but a fam

Guess how angry this man gets

Had so many bad chicks in his bed, strange sex, same sex

Has addictions that are sadistic, chain of events, habits

He puts cocaine on his prick and acts sick

Self-esteem needs boosting, alcohol consumption

Nicotine fusion, some athletes juicing

Pastors quote biblical chapters, Psalms

All along he’s into bestiality porn

And it’s wrong, so I keep the Cali weed in the bong

And I’m strong but the female anatomy got me sprung

And these women need shoes and baddest cars and condos

Fine clothes and these fiends needs to get high

So they find dough to mainline dope, and y’all know

The world is an addiction

Serving up a fix

The world is an addiction

It’s way too much for me

So many vices, habits, mine of course, bad chicks

My response to any advice on what is the essentials of life

I’m just rebellious, not selfish

Guess we all share different definitions of what wealth is

I need the best things in life, that’s women, that’s cars, cigars

A vintage bottle on ice that’s priceless

The other night, just in the emergency room

A patient said she needs to see a doctor soon

Doctor busy operating on a lady who’s sedated

He can barely concentrate cause he’s newly separated

His estranged wife likes entertaining her acquaintance

In the house they were married in, mad people waiting

Some young some old, heads and stomachs aching

Filling out an application cause they all need medication

But the doctor need love or a quick vacation

Calling up his travel agent, same time, premeditating

Murdering his ex wife;

life, savage ain’t it

Some need Xanax just to maintain it

We all need faith cause the world keep changing

Let go of the illusion, start some restraining

Oooooooooooh-ahhhhhhhhh…

Ahhhhhhhh-ahhhhhh-ahhhhhh…ahhh.

Just hold on (just hold on)

Just hold on (just hold on)

Just hold on (just hold on)

Just hold on (just hold on)

Just hold on (just hold on)

Just hold on (just hold on)

Just hold on (just hold on)

Just hold on (… hold on)