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(Intro)
Yeah I just... I got something to share
It's a true story
Well, here goes

(Verse)
Tell me my man what's familiar to you
I know the feeling of confusions, what the hell can I do
When those formerly cited as your friends abandon you
When they kick you to the curb, and make you wonder what's the use
I know the snakes in the grass that sidewind and bide time
Leave you blistering freezing with them beady old eyes
It's those kinda folks, switch the laughs up for lies
Let you into their lives, then forget your phone line
Till you get a few listens, play a couple gigs
And then win a couple grammies, then the bitter gets finished
Bullshit dismissed, man the water's passed the bridge
But I got nothing to spill when people ask about the tea
Peas in a pod, man I never eat my greens
But I blaze up the finest, help me see my dreams
That's your bygones gone by the wayside
Say goodbye to the fake love and fake vibes
Coronas on the wall, shattered bloodlines behind me
I left em all there cause they robbed my time and peace
I ain't morally ready, so I vent rhymes for now
Only fags that I smoke are the kind that have a mouth
A mouth that gets big and earns a knife for the clout
So listen up now, I got a story to tell
About me and those brothers I no longer know that well
Now this old little fable might provoke or amaze
We were turning in home, post blowout with the mates
Long ride home, we were stoned something crazy
Damo's da dropped us off and let us go next to H&M
Back behind the offo where the homeless people lay
Ain't no better place to find to roll some lemon haze
When we found a shopping cart on its own we had to play
So I hopped up in the cart and then Owen started saying
“Everybody get clear this man's going into labour”
Shouted at the skies as we rolled along the pavement
Until we saw some shit that got us slowing down the pace
Because a fella shouted at us from the road in a mercedes
I saw the flashing lights but didn't know about the danger
But then I saw that it was 5-0 that we were facing
Man I prayed he couldn't tell that we'd been smoking up and blazing
I tried to explain but I was blown the fuck away
So I couldn't say shit that I was roped into the game
Put the trolley back then he was strolling up enraged
The others realised that I would blow it cause I'm baked
And the cop was getting closer, but then all the shit changed
And it couldn't have been foreshadowed like some Rome in the Aeneid
Cause then I turned and saw the lads had flown off to escape
Couldn't damn believe my mates eloped the situation
So I had to face the cop alone, my heart was racing
Would he pop a 9 off and leave a hole up in my face?
But then he said “That's theft, you're
Damn fucking lucky I don't throw you into jail
But if I see you here again then I will show you to the station”
And I was damn lucky he'd been calling it a day
And that's how it ends, when I discovered all the snakes
Close calls are what it takes
I ain't see it then till I was shown how to face it
Serves as a mentor, guide dog for the future
Brush with payback, man's best friend to a loser
Comes to rear its head when you're knees deep in a boozer
Don't take your eye off the ball, only take to adapt
Certain folks accept the challenge and then break the pact
Keep your third eye open and you'll learn to face the facts
See that's the snakes in the grass that take what you're trynna find
Make you pay through the ass up until the last time
It was on that night that the truth entered my eyes
So this chapter's done with all them paragraphs of lies

(Outro)
Yeah, that's... that's all I had to share
Anyways, see youse