A Ballad For The Fallen Soldier Songtext / Lyric

This here's a ballad for all the fallen soldiers

I'ma 'bout ta show you how a hustlers life

(This is life, man)

And a soldier's life, parallel

And the one thing they got in common is pain

(Forget about me for a second)



Picture split screen

On one side we got a hustler

Getting ready for the block

(Human beings)



Other side you got the soldier

Getting ready for boot camp

(Soldiers)

They're both at war

(This is life)

Stay with us



Did you ever notice, before you think, life goes fast?

So don't you worry about what you see, it will pass






You lost him mama, the war's callin' him

Feel it's his duty to fall in line with all of them, he's a soldier

Rose through the ranks as the head of your household

Now its time to provide bank, like he's supposed ta



Now just remember while he's going to November

There's part of him growing up

His shirts soaks up your tears as he holds ya

Your heart beatin' so fast speeding his pulse up



Yeah, I know it sucks, life ain't a rosebud

A couple of speed bumps, you gotta take your lumps

Off to boot camp, the worlds facing terror

Bin Laden been happenin' in Manhattan



Crack was anthrax back then, back when

Police was Al Qaeda to black men

While I was out there hustling sinning with no religion

He was off the wall killing for a living



Did you ever notice, before you think, life goes fast

So don't you worry about what you see, it will pass



Days turn to nights, nights turn to years

Years turn to, 'How the fuck we make it in here?'

My barracks average couple fights a day

Get you locked in a hole wont see the light of day



And I feel like I'm just writing my life away

I never thought shit could end up quite this way

There's a war going on outside no man is safe from

I'm here for the good fight only the fakes run

I'm here for the purple heart, if I cant take one



For my team or my siblings what's my reason for living?

I love my niggaz more then anything else

This war's about my family, me needin' the wealth

You don't understand how useless as men we felt



Till you become a 5 star general

Shout out to my niggaz that's locked in jail

P.O.W.'s that's still in the war for real



Did you ever notice, before you think, life goes fast

So don't you worry about what you see, it will pass



Your baby boy is getting grown

So your baby boy is moving on

I've gotta chase

(Gotta chase it)

If I'm gonna make it

(Gonna make it)



Your baby boy is getting grown

So your baby boy is moving on

I'm gonna make it

Even if I gotta take it

(Gotta take it)



Mama said pray your sons becoming a man

This wars taxin' to 'em like Uncle Sam

He ain't gon' always make the right choice, understand

Every choice that he make he makes it for his fam



It's death before dishonor

And if hes gone you should honor his memory

Don't cry we all gonna die eventually

But if he's locked in the penetentiary

Send him some energy, they all winners to me

(What's up, kid?)



Did you ever notice, before you think, life goes fast

So don't you worry about what you see, it will pass