Dee-1, The Game, Des Monroe - Shine On Lyrics

April 10th I wrote this rhyme down, that's my birthday
Crying on the interstate while I'm driving to the A
DMX just died and man, it got me feeling low
People think I'm all good, but they don't even really know
Trying to call my girl up, well actually that's my ex
She won't answer my calls or reply to none of my texts
I just bought us a house, thinking she gone be my wife
Then we had to part ways, things wasn't working right
I been sleeping three hours a night, I can't even rest
Tupac and Nipsey Hussle's spirit inside of my chest
It's a couple secrets I need the strength to confess
If I speak about em, wonder will people think of me less
When God is for you, no one can stop you, my life is proof
Even when I feel unworthy, he throwing me alley oops
I'm hurting, but I'm working, it's difficult to explain
A spirit full of joy mixed with a heart full of pain

Mmmm, keep going, time never stops it keeps going
Life won't stop unfolding
You can cry while you run, just keep growing
Don't stay where you are
You've come too far
You're a star
So shine on

I lost my brother when I was thirteen years old man
It hurt me to my soul man he can't even grow old
He got shot, I was standing next to him, we was on the block
He was seventeen and now alive is what he's not
So I'm living for him
You see the stars in this Wraith
Align the stars in the sky and I could see my brother's face
I miss him
I miss my granny too, I miss my father
I would cry, but why even bother
When life is like this, I ain't even write this
All it take is a fifth of Hennessy and a blunt for me to recite this
We all die, nobody coming back
So I'ma live it like I live it til my line go flat
Yea

Mmmm, keep going, time never stops it keeps going
Life won't stop unfolding
You can cry while you run, just keep growing
Don't stay where you are
You've come too far
You're a star
So shine on

I'm on a song with The Game, this is more than music
I take a second to appreciate what God is doing
I interned for him in college, but we never met
I dreamed about this moment, this a day I won't forget
The next night, it's like my heart broke
My nephew got shot sitting on his mama's porch
The devil busy 365
No vacation for satan, we praying he survive
I wonder how Harriet Tubman stayed focused
How Martin Luther King never gave up, I need to know this
I ain't got the answers, but I got a calling
I still wear my crown, even with my tears falling

Mmmm, keep going, time never stops it keeps going
Life won't stop unfolding
You can cry while you run, just keep growing
Don't stay where you are
You've come too far
You're a star
So shine on