The Only by The Ill-Breed (band) Lyrics
The Only
(Strange)
I'm not the only one who lives like this
I"m not the only one who has a life fucked up like this
I keep living my life, day to day, struggling
Wondering how long it's gonna be this way
Cause I have very little left in my life to be proud of
But I'm hoping one day that'll stop
Cause in the beginning I kept sinning
Yeah that's right, I was a villan
A hoodlum, nothing but a gutter punk
So you better watch out when I get krunk
Cause money is what drives me and pain is what feeds me
So I live with agony and it compels me
To do great things, see what life brings
But you wanna bring me down and make sure that I always frown
But I don't fuck around, so if you don't like my sound
You can just turn around or i'll put you on the ground
Everybody always wants something but they'll never have nothing
I do what I gotta do to get what I gotta get
And I never fail and I'm telling all these tales
Causing a revolution so follow the trail
Chorus: I'm not the only - one with a problem
Wondering how I got 'em
I'm just an ill-breed - will I always be this way?
I don't know but probably
(Malachi)
You ever been in a situation that has you there thinking
And even though you ain't moving. inside your mind you're fucking pacing?
Contemplating everything and every possible outcome
To every decision you may make, anything you could have done
Cause sometime's it's so hard it seems it's the way it's gotta be
And you've already tried for so long to do the right thing
But there was never any fruit that ever came from that seed
You're just another statistic, a product of your home city
And I'm telling you what, no matter where you're at or where you're from
It's the same wherever you go cause the whole country is fucked
From the ghetto in Maryland outside of D.C
All the way down south in Knoxville Tennessee
So it don't really matter if you can get away
From wherever you're from cause it'll just stay the same
Chorus: I'm not the only - one with a problem
Wondering how I got 'em
I'm just an ill-breed - will I always be this way?
I don't know but probably
(Strange)
You can't tell me that you've never felt this way
The way it feels when life crushes in everyday
When you feel the struggle coming up right at you
When you feel like there was no one even there for you
Have you ever wondered why events unfold
Like a story that's already been told
Do we have influence over our lives
Or are we like bees in planet sized hives?
Playing the roles we're supposed to play
Never able to live our lives day to day
Cause events always push me back to the pad and pen
And when I start to drift away from my dream again
I sometimes wonder if life's blips and blunders
Happen for a reason and not to just tear us under
Or is it fate for me to live this way?
I ponder on this everyday
Is it chance or circumstance? I wish I knew in advance
So I could stop fighting the flow and go in the direction I'm supposed to go
Chorus: I'm not the only - one with a problem
Wondering how I got 'em
I'm just an ill-breed - will I always be this way?
I don't know but probably
(Malachi)
So now here I sit like always just thinking bout shit
Maybe what I'm going threw doesn't have to be like this
Maybe I can get a leg up with my rap game
And maybe, just maybe everyone will know my name
And maybe it doesn't have to just be a dream
Maybe I can finally make it a reality
And maybe when they hear me they'll show me nothing but love
For who I am today, not because of who I was but
Then again maybe everyone will hate me
Maybe that's the reason I ain't had no luck lately
And maybe this ain't me, this fucking rap shit
Maybe I'll never write a number one hit
So maybe after I rap this, I'll just call it quits
Maybe I don't know, maybe people feel the shit I spit
Chorus: I'm not the only - one with a problem
Wondering how I got 'em
I'm just an ill-breed - will I always be this way?
I don't know but probably
(2X)
(Strange)
I'm not the only one who lives like this
I"m not the only one who has a life fucked up like this
I keep living my life, day to day, struggling
Wondering how long it's gonna be this way
Cause I have very little left in my life to be proud of
But I'm hoping one day that'll stop
Cause in the beginning I kept sinning
Yeah that's right, I was a villan
A hoodlum, nothing but a gutter punk
So you better watch out when I get krunk
Cause money is what drives me and pain is what feeds me
So I live with agony and it compels me
To do great things, see what life brings
But you wanna bring me down and make sure that I always frown
But I don't fuck around, so if you don't like my sound
You can just turn around or i'll put you on the ground
Everybody always wants something but they'll never have nothing
I do what I gotta do to get what I gotta get
And I never fail and I'm telling all these tales
Causing a revolution so follow the trail
Chorus: I'm not the only - one with a problem
Wondering how I got 'em
I'm just an ill-breed - will I always be this way?
I don't know but probably
(Malachi)
You ever been in a situation that has you there thinking
And even though you ain't moving. inside your mind you're fucking pacing?
Contemplating everything and every possible outcome
To every decision you may make, anything you could have done
Cause sometime's it's so hard it seems it's the way it's gotta be
And you've already tried for so long to do the right thing
But there was never any fruit that ever came from that seed
You're just another statistic, a product of your home city
And I'm telling you what, no matter where you're at or where you're from
It's the same wherever you go cause the whole country is fucked
From the ghetto in Maryland outside of D.C
All the way down south in Knoxville Tennessee
So it don't really matter if you can get away
From wherever you're from cause it'll just stay the same
Chorus: I'm not the only - one with a problem
Wondering how I got 'em
I'm just an ill-breed - will I always be this way?
I don't know but probably
(Strange)
You can't tell me that you've never felt this way
The way it feels when life crushes in everyday
When you feel the struggle coming up right at you
When you feel like there was no one even there for you
Have you ever wondered why events unfold
Like a story that's already been told
Do we have influence over our lives
Or are we like bees in planet sized hives?
Playing the roles we're supposed to play
Never able to live our lives day to day
Cause events always push me back to the pad and pen
And when I start to drift away from my dream again
I sometimes wonder if life's blips and blunders
Happen for a reason and not to just tear us under
Or is it fate for me to live this way?
I ponder on this everyday
Is it chance or circumstance? I wish I knew in advance
So I could stop fighting the flow and go in the direction I'm supposed to go
Chorus: I'm not the only - one with a problem
Wondering how I got 'em
I'm just an ill-breed - will I always be this way?
I don't know but probably
(Malachi)
So now here I sit like always just thinking bout shit
Maybe what I'm going threw doesn't have to be like this
Maybe I can get a leg up with my rap game
And maybe, just maybe everyone will know my name
And maybe it doesn't have to just be a dream
Maybe I can finally make it a reality
And maybe when they hear me they'll show me nothing but love
For who I am today, not because of who I was but
Then again maybe everyone will hate me
Maybe that's the reason I ain't had no luck lately
And maybe this ain't me, this fucking rap shit
Maybe I'll never write a number one hit
So maybe after I rap this, I'll just call it quits
Maybe I don't know, maybe people feel the shit I spit
Chorus: I'm not the only - one with a problem
Wondering how I got 'em
I'm just an ill-breed - will I always be this way?
I don't know but probably
(2X)