2Pac - When Thugz Cry(2001)

[00:00.08] When thugs cry
[00:04.17] Now I lay me down to sleep
[00:06.75] I pray to Lord my guns to keep
[00:09.90] If I die before I wake
[00:12.23] I pray to Lord my soul to take
[00:16.84] Got us dyin'
[00:19.06] When thugs cry
[00:20.49] Times is hard
[00:23.08] Born thuggin' and lovin' the way I came up, big money clutchin'
[00:26.30] Bustin' while evadin' cocaine bust
[00:27.99] My po's rushin' to my cushin' into insanity
[00:30.56] They shot at my cousin, now we bustin' at they whole family
[00:33.44] The cowards wanna see me buried, I ain't worried
[00:36.09] I got a loan on the D.A. 'cause I'm fuckin' the secretary
[00:39.20] I black out, start cussin', bust 'em and touch 'em all
[00:41.83] They panicin', bitches duckin', I rush 'em and fuck 'em all
[00:45.00] Probably be an old man before I understand
[00:47.66] Why I had to live my life with pistols close in hand
[00:50.29] Kidnapped my homie sister cut her face up bad
[00:52.77] They even raped her, so we blazed they pad
[00:54.99] Automatic shots rang out on every block
[00:57.64] They puttin' hits on the politicians even cops
[01:00.40] I ain't lyin', they got me sleeping' with my infrared beams
[01:03.31] And in my dreams I hear muthafucker screamin'
[01:05.59] What's the meanin'? When thugs cry
[01:07.31] Oh, why should you send your child off to die?
[01:11.02] In the streets of chalk, where they die
[01:13.70] Let no wrongs, cry out, when thugs cry
[01:16.53] Dear God (when thugs cry)
[01:18.25] Oh, why does it have to be this way? Ah
[01:22.20] Children of today won't stay wise (when thugs cry)
[01:24.92] Let the children hear when thugs cry
[01:28.02] Dear God
[01:29.35] Oh, why?
[01:29.62] Maybe my addiction to friction got me buggin'
[01:31.86] Where is the love, never quit my ambitions to thug
[01:34.60] Ain't shed a tear since the old school years of elementary
[01:37.89] Niggas I used to love enclosed in penitentiaries
[01:40.65] Still homie keep it real, how does it feel?
[01:43.08] To lose your life over something that you did as a kid
[01:45.89] You all alone no communication, block on the phone
[01:48.45] Don't get alone with your pops and plus your moms is gone
[01:51.54] Where did we go wrong? I put my soul in this song
[01:54.14] To help us grow in time, but now our minds are gone
[01:57.04] We went from brothers and sisters to niggas and bitches
[01:59.84] We went from welfare livin' to worldwide riches
[02:02.38] But somethin' change in this dirty game
[02:04.64] Everything strange, lost all my homies over cocaine, man
[02:08.01] See they ask me if I shed a tear, I ain't lie
[02:10.97] See, you gotta get high or die, 'cause even thugs cry
[02:14.12] Oh, why should you send your child off to die?
[02:17.82] In the streets of chalk, where they die (when thugs cry)
[02:20.64] (We don't shed a tear, she shed blood)
[02:21.26] Let no wrongs, cry out, when thugs cry (do you still wanna be a thug)
[02:24.18] Dear God
[02:25.19] Oh, why does it have to be this way? Ah
[02:28.78] Children of today won't stay wise
[02:31.62] Let the children hear, when thugs cry
[02:34.82] Dear God
[02:36.08] Oh, why?
[02:36.98] And all I see are these paranoid bitches, illegal inventions
[02:38.50] Bustin' muthafuckers with uppercuts, I leave 'em with dentures
[02:41.40] 'Cause in my criminal mind, nobody violates the Don
[02:44.36] I write your name on a piece of paper, and now your family's gone
[02:46.93] Well perpetrate like you could handle my team
[02:49.16] So merciless in mind, try to take command of your dreams
[02:52.02] Leavin' muthafuckers drownin' in they own blood
[02:54.65] Clown and takin' pictures later
[02:56.05] Laugh at the punk bitches that turned snitches
[02:58.88] Regulate my area, the terror I represent
[03:01.27] Make your people disappear, you wonderin' where they went
[03:03.86] Am I cold, or is it just I sold my soul?
[03:06.27] Addicted to the streets, never found true peace I'm told
[03:09.46] Come take my body, God, don't let me suffer any longer
[03:12.32] Smoke a pound of marijuana, so I know it ain't long
[03:14.91] Where is the end to all my misery? Is there a close?
[03:17.95] I suppose that's why I murder my foes
[03:20.04] When thugs cry
[03:20.88] Oh, why should you send your child off to die?
[03:24.65] In the streets of chalk where they die (I shed tattoo tears for years)
[03:27.59] Let no wrongs, cry out, when thugs cry (to my dead homeboys and the prison peace)
[03:30.82] Dear God
[03:31.58] Oh, why does it have to be this way? Ah
[03:33.33] (Y'all ain't never heard my cries, nigga, what about if you would die)
[03:35.88] Children of today won't stay wise
[03:38.75] Let the children hear, when thugs cry
[03:41.53] Dear God
[03:43.27] Oh, why should you send your child off to die?
[03:46.97] In the streets of chalk where they die
[03:49.85] Let no wrongs, cry out, when thugs cry
[03:52.86] Dear God
[03:54.36] Oh, why does it have to be this way? Ah
[03:58.05] Children of today won't stay wise
[04:00.96] Let the children hear, when thugs cry
[04:03.82] Dear God
[04:05.59] Oh, why?
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