Akala – Cold Lyrics

Can I take you back for a minute
Its not just lyrics
I live it im spillin my spirit
On the beat like streets cold as blizzards
Late night drownin’ my sorrow in a bottle
of spirits
Was a sweet child, that characters missing
No trace, now it’s bora in coat and screw
face
Colder, soldier, angry young male
Don’t ask how, you already know the tale
Never lived with my father
Nasty break up with my mum and her
partner,
And of course, times was harder,
Moms did her best with the strength she
could muster,
But she so stressed it was us that would
suffer,
Plus school teachers hate me, say that im
feisty,
Play all kinda mind games to try break me
Helped turn a innocent kid, into a
ignorant pig,
Fuck em anyway, I still got straight A’s

Winter was real, no gas
I went to bed in full clothing
Back when my world was closing in and
mom was sick
I can’t explain the pain when the news came
Sorta like the blizzard that came after the
rain
My mind was a prison, I visioned the worst
Ran home from school, wanted to get there
first
Didn’t want either of my sisters, to find
what I pictured
Moms was too strong, she just soldiered
on,
Dad, I ain’t mad,
Don’t think I don’t understand,
But I still had to learn how to be a man,
Standing on my own two, not the way you
supposed to,
Funny how the cycle repeats,
Nobody showed you,
Wouldn’t believe I told you what I had to
go through,
Pressure couldn’t fold me, but turnt my
heart cold G,
What don’t kill you make you strong
supposedly,
That must be why nobody can hold me.
Yeah I had a struggle, but really its
sugar-coated,
When you think of all the millions barely
living and hopeless,
In the news Mother and child, bellies
bloated,
Put yourself in their shoes, knowin’ death
is approachin,
But its not fate, its bait, they were thrown
in,
The deep end of the endless ocean of mans
sin,
Politics, religion, man philosophise,
Got technology and television,
Still don’t know why the worlds a weight
on top of your shoulders,
But we fold up, true we can’t hold up them
boulders,
I been through the shit, but came out like
roses,
I’m blessed, don’t ever think I don’t notice,
I know I got a path, but it’s hard to stay
focused,
Specially on these roads, where foes are
like roaches,
Foul and I crush em and I won’t even
notice,
If I lose my way, I just want you to know
this.