tale of morris Lyrics

2008, August 27th

So this the settin'

The day I should of been sent to Heaven

So bless the reverend

A legend 'bout bein calm collected

Morals rejected

But let me tell it from another perspective

In the 210, you truly thrive off everything you get

Me and my brothers rollin' round this stupid town without a check

Ghetto area the drug dealing crazy and all the smokes amazing

What I was wanted was the money trees and damn it's for the taking

Durango run was the easiest spot to cop the mission

And not to mention the cops was running a

Town distant

We robbed this place and got away it so what's the difference

An afternoon with a gang committin' a false religion

Truthfully we didn't know if we was blood or crip

All we had was matching tats and then a couple guns equiped

Momma left at childhood and pops died at ninth grade

I'm the oldest, I dropped out so I could feed my brothers mane

Depression hit me drastically

Got into smoking weed and my brothers took a dab with me

Oldest of four, so leader of a pack of you see

Had to be they daddy 'cause daddy died from popping things

Pops died from popping things

When I was nineteen I decided to sell some crack

All this money got me thinking I could truly live off that

Taught my brothers all they business, how to use they intuition

Biggie gave me a diploma with a scholarship tuition

This the second time we about to commit a robbery

There's a small apartment that's literally a couple blocks from me

The owner is a nurse in there, must be money piling

Told my brothers get they masks they about to take a ride with me

10 PM I had no choice, I started banging on that door

Got a lot of bills to pay man, crack isn't cracking no more

So then I walked inside the building to sound of crying children

Only took a couple shots but it was aimed right at the ceiling

Told my brothers that they better go and search the place

Don't know how much time we have but we gon' make it out okay

We was searching through the drawers and only found a bit of jewelry

Then we saw a beaner coming out with tom foolery

It was a four v one when he came at us with a bat

And he knocked out the second youngest

I ain't slidin' with that

Push the punk right to the floor, and then I aimed it at his head

No hesitance took the shot and laid his *shot* to rest

Then my brother found out where the crying was coming from

The two witnesses, a special daughter and a baby son

I think she had down syndrome, man, I couldn't even tell

She just had a feeding tube and then my soul just felt unwell

And the baby had a mole on his cheek

He was so unique, he didn't stop crying in his seat guilt got the best of me

I just realized that I just took their legal guardian

My daddy died too I'm an idiot, I can't move on with this

Cops pulled up we decided to turn ourselves in

We had the same thought we were failures and retarded

Sent for thirty years, but we got out right after five

The judge saw our good attitudes and truly we would thrive

Later down the line we met Alex Cabrera

The brother of the one that I shot is this a setup

He said that he's a pastor knew exactly who we was

He invited us to church i was confused and star struck

We was presented with the gift of salvation and it was so amazing

We took it gracefully and gave thanks, 'cause he is gracious

Later down the line we heard the special sister died

Truly it was so hard to hear everybody's cry

If I could give advice to the brother with the mole

Truthfully I would tell him death is beautiful

So one day you'll be reunited, keep your flame up and ignited

Morris please forgive me, my confession's been recited