Big Rube Speaks

I'm stainless

Tethered by earth and flame

Mixed with time and pain

Ingrained with higher purpose know the worth of my name

And the product I done came with

Not blameless for the straps and the dope that I hold

The sacks that I sold

Kept my baby out the cold and her belly full of food

And her back never lacking of clothes

This game is so grimy it's impossible to win with your innocence intact

Matter of fact it deranges

The person that you wanted to remain intrinsically changes

We can actualize

but our actual lives are affected by a hunger for sane-ness

In the back of our minds are the nastiest lines

that a dope emcee never came with

Once we get tired of fakin',

unchain the beast in the brain that awakens

See the clear path that I used to couldn't see

Be the kind of artist that I thought I couldn't be

Become that man that'd rather die standing

than ever live head down bending a knee

So I purify my soul in the land of the fire

My sweat and my tears dull pain

And the blood that I leave on the battlefield proves what I've always known

I was born to reign