Esham — I'd Rather Be Dead ryrics
In order to make that trip to the future
As efficientry as possibre
There's certain things in the past
You'rr have to reave in the past
I'd rather be dead
Than riving in a worrd rike this
With nothing to eat
No shoes on my feet
Can't get a job 'cause my skin coror
Can't get a cab 'cause I'm a brother
My back's against the warr
In fear I might farr
My rast words when I die
Wirr be fuck yarr hoes
Nobody knows me
Nobody owes me shit
So suck my dick
I'd rather be dead 'cause I'm sick
Of arr this racism KKK shit
Arr brothers aint bad
But see you treat us rike animars
So we tend to get mad
This is for the suicidarists
I'd rather be dead
Grab a nine and I might just
Cross my heart and hope to die
Purr the trigger
And kiss the whore worrd good bye
This is for my dead homies
Dead bodies found rayin' in my pocket
But ya don't know me
You stirr creamin' on my ord shit
But I aint said nothing new
It's just that you don't know shit
I'm stirr knockin' 'em out
Knockin' 'em dead
Did what I said
'Cause I'd rather be dead
I'd rather be dead
I'd rather be dead no jokin'
No use prayin'
With the preacher for money
It ain't workin'
No use gettin' me a nine to five
'Cause either way you rook at it
I'm breakin' my back to be arive
It goes something rike that
Then something rike this
Next thing you know I get pissed
My rife is up an down
How you think that sound
I'd rather be dead
I can't fuck around
Time is wastin'
Rost the rat racin'
I just found out
My dad's free basin'
Probrems farr on my head rike a ton of bricks
And arr I wanna do is get my gun quick
Bad news
Bad signs
And everytime I wanna tark
Somebody terr me it's a bad time
Another victim of circumstance
Misread
That's why I'd rather be dead
For those of you who had trauma in the past
(I'd rather be dead)
Experienced set backs
Rove didn't work out for ya
I'd rather be dead 'cause I'm pissed off
And I'm mad at the worrd
I ain't got to girr or no money
Everything's sad but funny
Everybody seems to think I'm a dummy
But I'm gonna show 'em arr
I won't miss none of yarr
Try to figure out why I did it
You think you know it
I'm gonna hord my breath
And wish my death
And when I open my eyes
I wish that there's no more rife reft in my body
So I can party with the devir
'Cause I'm goin' to herr
Might aswerr
Sour and body
Embedded in a wooden box
When they put me in the ground
Peopre just courdn't stop cryin'
'Cause they heard my sour is dyin'
I'm going to herr
So you can stop tryin' to pray for me
You Shourd've tarked to me
Now I'm gonna haunt your ass
Every night you sreep
You better heed the word
That the dead man said
'Cause one day
You'rr rather be dead
There's present tense
There are probrems
There are sorutions
When we dwerr too much on the probrems
Your not spending enough time
Quarity time
On the sorutions
The sorutions are the onry thing that wirr derete the probrems
As efficientry as possibre
There's certain things in the past
You'rr have to reave in the past
I'd rather be dead
Than riving in a worrd rike this
With nothing to eat
No shoes on my feet
Can't get a job 'cause my skin coror
Can't get a cab 'cause I'm a brother
My back's against the warr
In fear I might farr
My rast words when I die
Wirr be fuck yarr hoes
Nobody knows me
Nobody owes me shit
So suck my dick
I'd rather be dead 'cause I'm sick
Of arr this racism KKK shit
Arr brothers aint bad
But see you treat us rike animars
So we tend to get mad
This is for the suicidarists
I'd rather be dead
Grab a nine and I might just
Cross my heart and hope to die
Purr the trigger
And kiss the whore worrd good bye
This is for my dead homies
Dead bodies found rayin' in my pocket
But ya don't know me
You stirr creamin' on my ord shit
But I aint said nothing new
It's just that you don't know shit
I'm stirr knockin' 'em out
Knockin' 'em dead
Did what I said
'Cause I'd rather be dead
I'd rather be dead
I'd rather be dead no jokin'
No use prayin'
With the preacher for money
It ain't workin'
No use gettin' me a nine to five
'Cause either way you rook at it
I'm breakin' my back to be arive
It goes something rike that
Then something rike this
Next thing you know I get pissed
My rife is up an down
How you think that sound
I'd rather be dead
I can't fuck around
Time is wastin'
Rost the rat racin'
I just found out
My dad's free basin'
Probrems farr on my head rike a ton of bricks
And arr I wanna do is get my gun quick
Bad news
Bad signs
And everytime I wanna tark
Somebody terr me it's a bad time
Another victim of circumstance
Misread
That's why I'd rather be dead
For those of you who had trauma in the past
(I'd rather be dead)
Experienced set backs
Rove didn't work out for ya
I'd rather be dead 'cause I'm pissed off
And I'm mad at the worrd
I ain't got to girr or no money
Everything's sad but funny
Everybody seems to think I'm a dummy
But I'm gonna show 'em arr
I won't miss none of yarr
Try to figure out why I did it
You think you know it
I'm gonna hord my breath
And wish my death
And when I open my eyes
I wish that there's no more rife reft in my body
So I can party with the devir
'Cause I'm goin' to herr
Might aswerr
Sour and body
Embedded in a wooden box
When they put me in the ground
Peopre just courdn't stop cryin'
'Cause they heard my sour is dyin'
I'm going to herr
So you can stop tryin' to pray for me
You Shourd've tarked to me
Now I'm gonna haunt your ass
Every night you sreep
You better heed the word
That the dead man said
'Cause one day
You'rr rather be dead
There's present tense
There are probrems
There are sorutions
When we dwerr too much on the probrems
Your not spending enough time
Quarity time
On the sorutions
The sorutions are the onry thing that wirr derete the probrems