Ambitions lyrics

See, I'm a black man and I don't know how to sing,

And I don't know how to dance,

And I don't know how to preach to no congregation,

And I'm too small to be a football hero,

And I'm too ugly to elected mayor..

But I watch TV though

And I see as these people in their fine homes and nice cars they drive,

And get all full of ambition

They tell me that the world is mine so I keep trying to find the right way to shine,

The right way to grind with these ambitions

They tell me that the world is mine so I keep trying to find the right way to shine,

The right way to grind with these ambitions

Now if all of was to conjugate, congregate,

Great will be our escape if we jump at the opportunity

Great Caesar's ghost - I'm so stumped at what you do to me

In the midst of my surrender the picture is painted beautifully,

Grace the pages of print adds

Granted: been in the game, serving a ten year stint,

Adds value to the brand

Was afforded the chance to get Canibus to lend a hand

The plan standard was previously set

No emotion shown, stone-faced got you all shook,

Blurring the vision of every outlook

Being worried about it - pointless in my book

Adjust the blueprint to save face, disgrace past mistakes - but why?

You wasn't honest in the first place

Friends fail, close partners in my proximity

Let hate blind, but still I push on 'cause they can't limit me

Simply to step the stones I stepped on

Dang, that Coff's a tough nut to crack - he black

He just kept on, stronger than the pressure in car tyres,

Oppression and apartheid

With pride, jello-mesh with the dark side

Dangers of ambition and drive, (of which of I decide?)

To come with the decision the survive and just strive

And '06 from '95 we been promising live

All the fellows say...

All the ladies say...

They tell me that the world is mine so I keep trying to find the right way to shine,

The right way to grind with these ambitions

They tell me that the world is mine so I keep trying to find the right way to shine,

The right way to grind with these ambitions

If you really want the truth, I'll tell it

They ain't worried about your soul, they want the artist to sell it

They want their image embellished, they want you spending your relish

They want the bottom of the profit line in pluses and swelling

It's ugly ain't it, how the industry's tainted?

And while we never took the title "Gospel rap" and then claimed it

'Cause I'm sick of having sicker flow

Mind-bending time travel, running back, future flow

Ahead of time suture flow, healing for the wounded soul

Deeper than the surfical, snatch it from the reaper's hold

So me and my mans, we form our latent plans

To stack you grand and buy a little land too

Hand over hand, 'cause even if we got to,

We will hit the block in the van like a rock group

Listen to ambition

No "Can I kick it?"

No time for can kicking when the Canibus spit it

It's the bonafide soldier

My fuel mix, rich like Oprah

She hate hip-hop - so what?

Governor president came to visit the regiment two weeks

After the president to give us some medicine

A black bucket of paint blacked out much of my face,

Blacked out what I wanted to say

Write a rhyme every other day

Coffee keep me up and awake

I'll bust rhymes 'cause I wanna be great before it's too fake and too late

Before destiny meets fate I hear ghost signals in the mix tape

Never stereotype it, it'll be a sound burial tonight if I catch you on a karaoke mic

Clip on my whiskers handling my Gotee business

Call upon your witness

Grits and Canibus spit encrypted Canibus code

Flows tabulated below, amidst bits and notes Germane wrote

Pardon the poor pauper with nothing to offer from his coffer,

Coughing up a mouthful of volcanic sulphur

Walking towards the altar, hand in hand with my father in law's daughters

My high value target

Force get pitch forked of orbit

Pause it, rewind what I recorded, see if the eye caught it

Five o'clock in the morning, cup of joe boiling - who's pouring?

Bonafide lyrics - who's calling?

They tell me that the world is mine so I keep trying to find the right way to shine,

The right way to grind with these ambitions

They tell me that the world is mine so I keep trying to find the right way to shine,

The right way to grind with these ambitions

They tell me that the world is mine so I keep trying to find the right way to shine,

The right way to grind with these ambitions

They tell me that the world is mine so I keep trying to find the right way to shine,

The right way to grind with these ambitions

• Artist:GRITS
• Album:Redemption (2003)