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Bittersweet

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Life is love and love is a lady
And love it can’t be beat
But if life is love and love is a lady
Her love is bittersweet

Verse 1

When you work every day
But got bills to pay
And no matter what comes you got to find ways
To please yo babies, represent for yo lady
No matter how much love in yo heart, you gets shady
Yo inclined to decline, depressions sublime
The pills and the bottle help yo ass to climb
Over each and every mountain
Troubles flowing like a fountain
And you gets no respect
Those around you discounting
A punch from the hand of the man from the under
Who seen much rain and whose ears can hear the thunder
Most eyes blind, but you see and try to tell
It’s all these heavenly bodies be causing hell
No change in yo pocket and the suckers get paid
If you step to close to the line, you get sprayed
You try to stay off the pine box and the hole
What profit a man if he gain the world and lose his soul?

Verse 2

At times you find yourself alone
Call yo friends, they gone, or ain’t even at home
You turn to yo forty-ounce companion, who never abandoned
It’s you and the bottle
Now who the last man standing?
Gots no direction, so you genuflecting
Hoping the gods and angels will make the selection
To pull out of you what you could do, If you could transcend
All the hood rules
You take a man from the prison, but his ball and chain
Be the pressure of the crosshairs aimed at his brain
And you can go down, and get mowed down
But the real victory is to hold on and stay ‘round
Been blessed on this earth for near ‘bout forty years
And I’m still here
Though I shed many tears
Though I shed many tears

(C) 2004 Nikitah Imani (DP Da Reapa)

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from Old School Long Playa Volume One, released January 1, 2004

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DP Da Reapa Council Bluffs, Iowa

DP Da Reapa (Dr. Nikitah Imani) is Pres. and CEO of Faith4Word a company in Council Bluffs, Iowa of which ReapALife Records is a vital part. He is from the ATL and holds a BSFS, 2 master's degrees, and a Ph.D. He is Professor of Black Studies at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. He represents his hometown ATL doing the old school hip hop. ... more

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