Chris Webby - Pieces Of My Life lyrics

rate me

Everybody got a story man

This is mine!

See I been walking on this tightrope

Feeling like it's life or death

Music is my life though,

All I need's a quiet set

To go under those headphones,

Write a couple rhymes and vent

Only time I feel like I've actually got my mind in check

Listening to music till

I was losing all my sense of stress

Everything just melts away

My problems went ahead and left

Tapped into my brain

And now it's working like Professor X

Got some rapping superpowers

Never give the pen a rest

Grew up bumping DMX, Eminem, and Red & Meth

Ludacris and Tip brought

The south up to Connecticut

Back when Wu-Tang

Was telling people to protect they neck

When I discovered rap and I ain't left it yet

I was just a crazy kid just tryna find my way

Now these people listen

When I look into the mic and say

Now it's flipped around cause

I'm the music that these kids will play

Just like how I was bumping Big and Dre

Shit how crazy is that

Started out as just a kid who could rap

And now it's gotten so much bigger than that

Now that I got it ain't no giving it back

So now it's time to take my victory lap

It’s time to take my victory lap

Since I started knew my life would be different

Cause it's my dream and I've been dying to live it

I've been out here paying dues

But you know that's just the price of admission

So just appreciate these pieces of my life when I spit it

Yeah this music is my lifeline,

Use it as a getaway

Since I started really learning in seventh grade

Wrote the words to Renegade Em and Jay

On the wall of my college room

So I would look up to it every day

I've been on that shit, making records, rehearsing

Now it's time for the Wizard

To go and step from the curtain

I shed my blood and tears

And all of my sweat from the working

I spent all of my younger years

Trying to perfect what I'd turn into

To be listened to and critiqued by

Anybody who’s surfing the internet

But remember I'm a regular person

Whose parents bought him CDs

And they would check for the curses

So I was stuck listening to The Chronic Edited Version

Till I took’em both aside,

Said mommy you gotta see

This hip-hop shit is me,

And it's always gonna be

And now all these years later and they truly believe

This the life I was meant to lead real shit

Started out as just a kid who could rap

And now it's gotten so much bigger than that

Now that I got it ain't no giving it back

So now it's time to take my victory lap

It’s time to take my victory lap

Since I started knew my life would be different

Cause it's my dream and I've been dying to live it

I've been out here paying dues

But you know that's just the price of admission

So just appreciate these pieces of my life when I spit it

You know for a true artist

Someone who really cares about what they do

There's nothing that comes before the music

Cause the music, in essence,

Is really just an extension of that person

It doesn't matter what color you are,

Where you come from

What religion you look to during hard times

And good music is good music

And it's easy to get sidetracked

By the money and the women

And everything else that comes along with the fame

But I'm in this from the music,

At the end of the day this is my dream

You know, making music is therapy for me

And I'll never let anything get in the way of that, never