Tip The Scale Lyrics - Undun - The Roots

I'm a side of suicide 

Heads or Tails 

Some think life is living hell 

Some live life just living well 

I live life tryna tip the scale 

My Way, my way 

My Way, my way 

Yo, I'm always early 

I never take off cause I got a job 

Rob Peter to pay Paul 

Now I realize it's the winner that takes all 

Do what I gotta do cause I can't take loss 

Picture me living life as if I'm some animal 

That consumes it's own dreams like I'm a cannibal 

I won't accept failure unless it's mechanical 

But still the alcohol mixed with the botanical 

I guess I be referred to the owners manual full of loaners 

Full of all the homeless throwaways and the stoners 

Soldiers of the streets with 8th grade diplomas 

And the world awaiting their shoulders as a bonus 

Look, let he without sin live without sin 

Until then, I'll be doing dirty jobs like swamp men 

Counting the faces of those that might have been 

It's like living that life but I won't live that life again 

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I'm a side of suicide 

Heads or Tails 

Some think life is living hell 

Some live life just living well 

I live life tryna tip the scale 

My Way, my way 

My Way, my way 

Lotta niggas go to prison 

How many come out Malcolm X 

I know I'm not shit 

Can't even talk about the rest 

Famous last words 

You under arrest 

Will I get popped tonight 

It's anybody's guess 

I guess a nigga need to stay cunning 

I guess when the cops coming need to start running 

I wont make the same mistakes 

From my last run in 

You either done doing crime now or you done in 

I got a brother on the run and one in 

Wrote me a letter he said when you comin 

Shit man I thought the goal's to stay out 

Back against the wall 

Then shoot your way out 

Getting money's a style that never plays out 

Till you in a box 

And your stash money's paid out 

The scales of justice 

Ain't equally weighed out 

Only two ways out 

Digging tunnels or digging graves out 

Photos 

I'm a side of suicide 

Heads or Tails 

Some think life is living hell 

Some live life just living well 

I live life tryna tip the scale 

My Way, my way 

My Way, my way 

I'm a side of suicide 

Heads or Tails 

Some think life is living hell 

Some live life just living well 

I live life tryna tip the scale 

My Way, my way 

My Way, my way