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Paradise Lyrics by CHRIS WISE

Finding Manhood: The Myth

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[INTRO: Shapri]
Wise..
How deep is your soul?
How strong is your heart?
The world is ripping us apart.

Paradise.
Paradise.
Paradise.

TRUE!

[VERSE 1: Chris Wise]
Paradise, will you find me?
Three prison walls confine me
So much pain on my Warrior ankles
I won’t see 30
'Til then I’m thankful
For a life so gold
DON'T TREAD ON ME
Don’t tread on me
I’m not a doormat
Midnight train to God Knows Where
Fear not God 'cuz I am here
And if that sounds frightening
Then allow me to invite you in:
36 chambers of enlightenment
Can’t understand equality
When picking cotton is policy
Who the fuck said I’m three-fifths?
WHO THE FUCK SAID WISE THREE-FIFTHS?!
Nowadays gotta keep the 22 smith,
By any means tryna see Emmitt lift
Rise from the river, can’t deny how I’m living
When the 9th ward still submerged in grime
Southside Chi third world for crime
Where the hell is our Chiefs? huh?!
45 shots, Fred Hampton in the sheets
Don’t come back n++ga, Jordan won’t save us
Don’t put your life on the line for the Breds
I can hear mics on my line to the feds

WISE DON'T SLEEP

I’m up all night reading COINTEL briefs
Pissed off, bussin' holes in the TV
Real housewives just hoes on the creep
Hoes on the creep
Fake ass tits with the stank ass weaves
Illadelph rips of the dank ass weed
Misery loves company
And that would explain our love for the gang!
Thank God I got love from the fam
'Member that night I cried on the couch on a conference call three-way to the sky
Black Full house, not one dry eye
Uncle Jesse please feed me beats
To convey these dreams and bust out these seams
Uniq-lo, 10 dollar jeans
Broke as a joke but I’m rich in the heart
Pell check came, please momma don’t start
All that money talk gone tear us apart
Begging me to pull my weight
As if I don’t grind like 25-8!

What’s a contribution from a college student
Sacrifice his life to design the future?
Be-be patient, we already made it
And nobody knows the troubles I seen
The other side ain’t no twice as green
Simple life is all that I need
C’ notes, quotes, and potent IV’s
Please tell Dean what it meant to me
True colors shown in a room full of ghosts
Writings on the wall but I really couldn’t see
Never had stripes 'til she bought me three
My Gazelles got stories to tell
Punched the mountaintop from the pits of hell
Wouldn’t try walkin in if I’z you
Do you wanna really see your name in the news?
Do you wanna really see your name in the news?

All pub ain’t good pub
And all drugs ain’t good drugs
But you live and you learn and you struggle and you fail
Wake up just in time to make bail
Spine got tapped but I didn’t go to jail
Led the revolution from a ambulance
It all fell through like a avalanche
Snowed in
Draped out
Dripped up
Flip cup
That was never my game
They used to call me "Waterboy"
What the fuck is my name?
NNNAAAGGGHHHH
Know they'll love me when I'm famous
I know they'll hate me when I'm gone/
Know they'll hate me when I'm famous/
Know they'll love me when I'm gone
So I'm bumping Street Poems on the 43 home
Where the heart and hatred start
Refined my cane in a brown sugar plant
Then the universe played its part
Have you, ever?
Deferred on a dream so bright
That you die tryna find that light
That you cry tryna climb that flight
Get wise to divine advice
I done found tripping thru my life
Paradise ain't no promised land
Paradise is why you fight

Paradise ain't no promised land
Paradise is why you...

FIGHT
FIGHT

Paradise is why you FIGHT!
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CHRIS WISE

CHRIS WISE

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"Paradise" appears on "Finding Manhood: The Myth".

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