Tunnel Vision - Tunnel Rats

Ayo the night time is sometimes so unkind

That’s why my people in the ghetto pray for sunshine

And some rhyme simply for pastime

But others see the back door exit with dollar signs

More power to ya, just watch your back and how the label do ya

Signing your life on dotted line and watch the paper screw ya

We in the tunnel, underground and we rumble

Key is to keep your head and stay humble

Same rule as the jungle where people burn trees

Inhale the poison that makes boys men and rush life before they

Left with little to no time

Brain cells dispelled, can’t comprehend the rhymes of a master

Half the crowd is getting lost in my rapture

Other half got left behind

They didn’t listen or didn’t learn

From me and the Rats are makin' microphones burn baby burn

I feel the rush when we in the zone

I don’t know if there’s another that’s stopping us

I feel the crowd And when we hit the stage

We get played through the veins like we one with the sound

I feel the mic under the dim lights

Hands in the air, it’s alright

We had to feel our way through the tunnel 'til the vision was clear

Now we here and it’s dangerous

Around the way girls grow diamonds in the rough

Some refined in the fire, others wind up gettin' stuck

Under the muck and mire, young ones lookin' tired

Looking like the date on their dreams have been expired

No desire for the future, it’s about what we used to

Change came when Dert laid the track and that fueled the fire

New Breed dangerous live wire

Mixed on a two inch, making it sound clean

Still I plan to live in extremes

Explode in this microphone dream, me and my team

Fiends for the rush of the music, don’t be sweatin' how we use it

Tracks get abused when the Rats are around

Even the sounds show respect when we check one two

People be running they mouth but still they love what we do

Writin' more rhymes, waves collidin' with shorelines

From the back hold your mind

I feel the rush when we in the zone

I don’t know if there’s another that’s stopping us

I feel the crowd And when we hit the stage

We get played through the veins like we one with the sound

I feel the mic under the dim lights

Hands in the air, it’s alright

We had to feel our way through the tunnel 'til the vision was clear

Now we here and it’s dangerous

We had to feel, and when there was no trace of life

We embraced the night then came the dawn

We had to feel our way through the tunnel

A humbling journey where we learned that we weak are strong

We had to feel our way through the tunnel 'til the vision

Brought a rhythm of life I could trust

We had to feel our way through the tunnel 'til the vision was clear

Now we here and it’s dangerous

For forty days, I’ll take you through a maze of phrases

Of power purpose and passion, inspiration

And forty nights of spotlights and mics

When the thunder come crashing and lightning strikes

So enlightening, the listeners all ghetto parishioners

Take 'em on a mission and showing 'em what the vision is

Taste of death has been blessed by the breath of life

That’s why I rep the cross of Christ

My time in this place is just so precious

Hurt in this dirt but I’m loving these life lessons

I can taste 'em but people wanna hear them fake hits

I got dreams, won’t chase 'em, I just walk in 'em

Talk in 'em, fulfill 'em even if only two, three or four feel 'em

The front page bring in more guns and more killings

I’m on stage bringin' raw feelings

I feel the rush when we in the zone

I don’t know if there’s another that’s stopping us

I feel the crowd And when we hit the stage

We get played through the veins like we one with the sound

I feel the mic under the dim lights

Hands in the air, it’s alright

We had to feel our way through the tunnel 'til the vision was clear

Now we here and it’s dangerous