Beanie Sigel - Dear Self (Can I Talk To You)

And I see no bravery
No bravery in your eyes anymore
Only sadness

And I see no bravery
No bravery in your eyes anymore
Only sadness, only sadness

Dear self can I talk to you?
I been trying to have this conversation for years
But you won't listen
Damn, are you that plain ignorant? You're so indignant

Please come off that high chair you're sitting in
Before you snatched from it or strapped to it
Ya body used as a conduit, a thousand volts flow through you
Ya life gone over something foolish

Talking to you is so useless
Ya head harder than them walls you'll be housed in soon
Before ya body's embalmed then you lie in tomb
Open ya ears, eyes and heart 'cause that hour's soon

And the hour shall cometh when Ish Rahzel blows his trumpets
The sky shall crack, the stars will plummet
The sun will rise in the West, you'll drown in your own sweat
And when that day shall be, I'll bet I'll see no bravery, no bravery

And I see no bravery
No bravery in your eyes anymore
Only sadness

Dear self can I talk to you?
(Only sadness)
Dear self can I talk to you?
(Only sadness)

Who are you to lecture me?
You question me about my life and the choices I made?
How dare you to place me in an early grave?
Whoa, why you gotta talk to me in that fashion?

You can bury me face down with an open casket
This whole world can kiss mine
Tell me what this life got to offer
A crooked preacher and a church alter?

A short speech and a long offering?
A deep grave and a short coffin?
Oh, I get it, you righteous now
Well, let the truth be told

You done smoke every blunt I rolled
You done drove every car I stole
Cooked up every crack I sold
You done slept with every trick I laid
Collected off every bet I made

But I guess you done found Christ
I ain't know He was missing
Whoa, watch your blasphemy
Man, I ain't asked to be, just let me live my life

Now hold on, no, you listen
You was there on every decision
Whether it was right or wrong
And now you trying to right my wrongs, you got some nerve
You even give me a words I write in this song

You see, my vision's much clearer
It's not me but it's you that I see when I look in the mirror
And you call yourself saving me?
But it's through your eyes that I see no bravery, no bravery

And I see no bravery
No bravery in your eyes anymore
Only sadness, only sadness
Only sadness, only sadness