Poison

[Verse 1: Rates] So what to do with my time Mend my broken ties So many hopeless nights Tokin' and smokin' pipes Standing at a crossroad Go straight, I hope I'm right Had my party time, now it's business Ain't no joking eyes I learned to grow inside You heard it left my past behind But I can feel it catching up No pause and it's a fast rewind Time to meet my maker Now only defeat can break ya Prayed and said I'd change, won't stay the same Don't know if we can take ya Aren't ya meant to be the saviour? Why'd you go and turn away? Stuck in an urn, unconcerned as I burn in flames "What aren't you learning Rates?" "You have to put the effort in" I tried and I survived and now I'm putting that on everything Maybe with my words, I could be a person of influence Whatever you're doing, abusing, trust me I was into it Hey, you need to walk away Your life is more important aye While I'm recording all these thoughts, it's time to throw it all away [Hook: Rates] x2 I thought that I would stay behind Maybe I could change your mind? Blazing on a pipe will send you crazy 'till your brain is fried Wait up, straight up Victim of your hometown Think you need advice, I'm saying maybe you could slow down [Verse 2: Rates] All your fucking mates do it Sucking on that sweet puff Trust me, you don't need that shit Soon you're acting heaps tough Physically impaired, you can't swim when the sea's rough Keep it up and live beneath the ground before the leaves touch A message for my listeners As the pipe glistens it hissin' like a serpent Gotta serve it like a prison stick But fuck that, you can break the chains of addiction Cause every toke of every pipe and every rock is made different Wait in the car and watch the office on a Thursday Break the safe and take the pay that was meant for your work mates Now you're stoopin' way lower Your mum's on her way over You're taking her money, she's in a Terios not a Range Rover You push away your friends and you think that they can't help You need to persevere cause you're the master of your dark world It's past 12 Im sitting up still writing this And I can fucking say I'm fucking happy I ain't high as shit [Hook] x2 [Verse 3: Rates] An epidemic that's deadly and fillin' cemeteries Youth with an appetite for drugs like a secondary Country in denial, denying that it's gettin' heavy Proof is in the picture Will it hit ya or forgot the memory They turn their back on the junky with the stash to burn If they gave him help he wouldn't raw as much for cash to earn But they need to tax you first The dealer, he ain't paying that So they're unconcerned, nothing to earn when you're blazin' that If you needin' help you need to breathe it, just believe yourself You can be the person you need to be I've seen myself I needed to say, "Wake up before it's too late" Just dream of the place you wanna be and then you'll do great Your life isn't worthless, you're finding a purpose You're caught up in a cycle, if you fight it, it's worth it You want respect? I guarantee you get respect then Give yourself respect just to show you don't respect them [Hook] x4