Like Toy Soldiers Lyrics

Like Toy Soldiers lyrics

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Step by step, heart to heart, left right left
We all fall
down
Step by step, heart to heart, left right left
We all fall down like
toy soldiers
Bit by bit torn apart We never win
But the battle wages on
for toy soldiers]

I’m suppose to be the soldier who never blows his
composure
Even though I hold the weight of the whole world on my
shoulders
I ain’t never suppose to show it, my crew ain’t suppose to
know it
Even if it means going toe to toe with the Benzino, it don’t
matter
I never drag ‘em in battles that I can handle less I absolutely
have to
I’m suppose to set an example, I need to be the leader
My crew
looks for me to guide ’em
If some shit ever just pop off I’m suppose to
be beside ‘em
That Ja shit, I tried to squashed it, it was too late to
stop it
There’s a certain line, you just don’t cross it, and he crossed
it
I heard him say Hailie’s name on a song and I just lost it
It was
crazy, this shit went way beyond some Jay Z and Nas shit
And even though the
battle was won, I feel like we lost it
I spent so much energy on it, honestly
I’m exhausted
I’m so caught it I almost feel like I’m the one who
caused it
This ain’t what I’m in hip-hop for, it’s not why I got in
it
Now it’s never my object to for someone to get killed
Why would I
wanna destroy something I helped build
It wasn’t my intentions, my
intentions were good
I went through my whole career with out ever mentioning
____
And that’s just outta respect for not running my mouth
And talking
about something that I knew nothing about
Plus Dre told me stay out, just
wasn’t my beef, So I did
I just fell back, watched and gritted my teeth
while he’s all over TV
Now I’m talking a man who literally saved my
live, like fuck it
I understand, this is business and this shit just isn’t
none of my business
But still knowing this shit could pop off at any
minute

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It used to be time when you could just say a
rhyme
And wouldn’t have to worry about one of your people dying
But now
it’s elevated cause once you put someone’s kids in it
Shit gets
escalated, it ain’t just words no more, is it
It’s a different ball
game, call names and you ain’t just rapping
We actually tried to stop the
50 and Ja beef from happening
Me and Dre had sat with him, kicked it and had
a chat with him
And asked him not to start it, he wasn’t gonna go after
him
Until Ja start gabbing in magazines how he stabbed him
Fuck it 50,
smash him, mash him, and let him have it
Meanwhile my intentions pulley’d
in other directions
Some receptionist said the source who answers phones at
his desk has an erection for me and thinks that I’ll be his
resurrection
Tries to blow the dust of his mic and make a new record
But
now he’s fucked the game up cause one of the ways I came was through that
publication, the same one that made me famous
Now the owner of it got a
grudge against me for nothing but fuck it
That motha fucker can get it too,
fuck ‘em then
But I’m so busy being pissed off, I don’t stop to
think
That we just inherited 50’s beef with murder inc
And he’s
inherited mine, which is fine, ain’t like either of us mind
Still have
soldiers that is on the front line that's willing to die for us
As soon as
we give the orders, never to extort us
Strictly to show they support
us
Maybe shout ‘em out in a rap or up in chorus to show we love ‘em
back
And to let ‘em know how important is to have Runyon Avenue soldiers
up in
our corners
Their loyalty to us is worth more then any award
is
But I ain’t trying to have none of me people hurt or murdered
It
ain’t worth it, I can’t think of a perfecter way to word it
Then to just
say that I love y’all too much to see the verdict
I’ll walk away from it
all before I’ll let it go any further
Now don’t get it twisted, it’s
not a plea that I’m coping
I’m just willing to be the bigger man
If
y’all can quiet popping off at the jaws with the knocking
Cause frankly
I’m sick of talking
I’m not gonna let someone else’s coffin rest on my
conscious

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