Brother Ali - The Puzzle Lyrics
Who's to blame for the state I'm inI play my cards but somehow I can't win[Verse 1:]Listen when life leaves you beaten upDon't lay around in it, hurry pick them pieces upCling closely to the people you loveThey're your umbrella when the weathers toughSee to it that your head is upIf not just remember thisJust never let your chest and your chin touch in publicThose that stand against us would love thisMan ***** them, something's bugging em'They feel inadequate or something and that's been dug in em'So deep they can't stand someone else making shitPlayer hatred, same concept created SatanPlay em, no never mind let em play their partThey're here to make us prove we are what we say we areWe say we are the hard heartedBeen discarded from everything we've ever been part ofThey just robbed itUnguarded, tormented and torturedAnd got nothing but scars and grey hairs to show for it***** that, every stone that's ever been cast or blow that ever landedHelped to build that man that's standing before your ***** assAnd back to wreak havoc and never retired, retreated or recantedI, don't expect you to have stood where I'm standingWhy, repsect is the only thing I'm demandingTry, you and I could build this understandingYou can't honestly shake unless you know where my hand's been brother[Chorus:]This is a piece of my puzzle nowThrough the years I found peace in my struggle nowIf we were put here to carry a great weightThe very things we hate are here to build those musclesThis is a piece of my puzzle nowThrough the years I found peace in my struggle now(Whose to blame for the state I'm in - Yours trulyI play my cards but somehow I can't win)[Verse 2:]Listen I was taught that mistakes made with great intentionsWere never sins but where life lessons beginNow that I'm 27, single father starting over yet againI am who I have to forgiveLost my mumma to cancer, closed a 10 year chapter shortly afterCan't deny that was some shitAlone in this life would've been at my throat with a knife chopWere it not for my passion to liveFollow my soul, not that I don't know the penaltyBut that's the legacy that I pass to my kidsHeard of shining in the heat of the momentAnd won my freedom the moment I realised that's what this...[Chorus][Bridge: x2]I can't believe my eyes LordI don't know what I'm seeingI done watched them smash into little pieces everything I've been buildingI can't believe my ears LordI don't know what I'm hearingI heard they smash into little pieces everything I've been buildingWhose to blame for the state I'm inI play my cards but somehow I can't win
