Pay to Play Lyrics

Maxin, banging Brother Ali, tree top flyer forever I'll be

Just off your radar but still feeling the wind up under my wings

I'm just a simple man, I live by only a couple things

Always gonna dream, and always be kind to other beings

We share a space in this aerospace, if ever were there a place

Needing unity it was here but everybody wanna show their scary face

Scratching at the door of opportunity volunteer to wear the eggs

On their face, like regret, before they're familiar names, boy they're replaced

Get written off, accounted for, you did your thing for the label's sake

You were hot on the 808s but not marketable for state to state

Plus they own the rights to the material, so guess what you take away?

Eat shit, and the Jew dudes who used you can take the cake

I'm not a hero, I'm not coming here to save the day

I just recognize my role cuz a I need to know in a major way

Soul and integrity aren't possessions for one to trade away

But I guess you gotta pay to play the major label way, right

You pray and pray now today's the day all of your labor pays

Off, just sign the dotted line, change the way you face the day, but remember

You've gotta pay to play the major label way

So trade away your soul and say the bull shit that you get paid to say

You pray and pray now today's the day all of your labor pays

Off, just sign the dotted line, change the way you face the day, but remember

You've gotta pay to play the major label way

So trade away your soul and say the bull shit that you get paid to say

Hey another day will slip away if you keep slipping up

I stay within my lane but they still claim I'm wanting fisticuffs

Forgetting what I confide in, solely my own set of morals

Sitting in the silence when nobody wants to drop informal

Thoughts on my head, I keep instead integrity

Either I get to sell CDs or tell it free with melodies

I keep the tempo to, not infallible to you

But not doubtable, it's bountiful, I'm out to spill issues

Of real life, not to brag or boast an empty thought

I feel like, it might drag in those who simply ought

To reassess their life and what's important in the end

You may defend it's "living right" and every night you can pretend

That you made it, - but you really made a mess of things

Let it run ya life and you will find all of the Stress it brings

Questioning, is this really my own way

When you pay to play the major label way, you're losing days still

You pray and pray now today's the day all of your labor pays

Off, just sign the dotted line, change the way you face the day, but remember

You've gotta pay to play the major label way

So trade away your soul and say the bull shit that you get paid to say

You pray and pray now today's the day all of your labor pays

Off, just sign the dotted line, change the way you face the day, but remember

You've gotta pay to play the major label way

So trade away your soul and say the bull shit that you get paid to say