[00:00.300]"and nights spent alone[00:03.073]"Too many winters, you stare at the night[00:08.688]Too many winters and nights spent alone[00:14.256]Too many winters, you stare at the night"[00:19.516][Verse 1: Deacon The Villain][00:41.664]I'm tal king dirt floors[00:42.700]Not roads[00:43.424]Indoors[00:44.225]Cold feet[00:44.900]No heat[00:45.655]Hoping the insulation got no leaks[00:47.547]Stove burning for four weeks[00:48.996]Bout to cut the gas off[00:50.520]Shawty got 6 kids[00:51.856]Youngest with a bad cough[00:53.354]Daddy died of cancer[00:54.567]Mama was his tiny dancer[00:55.860]Known in fairy tale's Atlantis[00:57.267]And nobody's got the answers and it's freezing[00:59.542]She's eatin' way too many dinners chilled[01:01.955]Walgreens[01:02.606]CVS[01:03.278]They don't sell the Benadryl[01:04.551]For those colds[01:05.422]Ain't no sub woofers for those lows[01:07.345]No chimney for cocoa[01:08.682]Froze as a framed photos[01:10.175]All night[01:11.017]Bundled with her babies through the long night[01:12.886]The winter's no pretender, he is no bark[01:15.156]All bite[01:15.938]Little Lucy was tall fight[01:17.310]Would call Christ[01:18.041]Mainline[01:18.808]But on the same dime go to war come game time[01:22.131]She had to find the will to shine in the dark[01:23.947]Sometimes you need winter for fire to spark[01:26.120]That's all I'm saying[01:27.139][Hook][01:27.689]"Too many winters and nights spent alone[01:33.174]Too many winters, you stare at the night"[01:37.307][Verse 2: Eligh][01:38.329]It's evident, there's something heaven sent[01:40.956]Watching over me like the secret service watch the president[01:44.083]A resident of LAUSD, I was a hesitant little boy[01:47.696]A little coy, a little shy, inner city schooling was the measurement[01:51.091]Of how l never measured up[01:52.299]I wasn't tough enough, I couldn't fight, liked to draw liked to write, and there were times When something pulled me left instead of right[01:58.386]Avoiding ass beatings in the alley ways by candle light[02:01.096]I thought of ways to mangle mics[02:02.760]If lever had a chance[02:03.936]Tenements, of my mind, filled with mini me's, telling me[02:06.752]"You can do it!" and "no you can't"[02:08.076]Back and forth, fast forward, Legends on the road lact a fool, I lose control[02:12.156]Should ve lost my life[02:13.187]Stickin' my dick in the dirt[02:14.413]Dirty women and dirty drug memories tatter the walls[02:17.336]Or decorate the halls now that l've survived[02:18.180]Angels in the outfield, that's why I'm alive Sentiments of a fire place during winter time[02:23.595][Hook][02:24.317]"Too many winters and nights spent alone[02:29.740]Too many winters, you stare at the night"[02:34.540][Verse 3: The Grouch][02:34.883]Warm my soul with this winter fire[02:37.563]Until the wheels fall off boy l'll never retire[02:40.595]Hired for a job that really has no finish[02:43.226]I'm bad bro[02:44.378]Without the bad bro image[02:46.339]Manifestations of a kid with foresight[02:48.973]Intentional aim, use my heat to make more light[02:52.523]Cause I never knew a cunnin' linguist[02:54.601]To fit in with the crowd so we come distinguished[02:57.358]Get low like Mingus[02:58.787]The night glows[03:00.227]As we sit around the campground and chant down evil forces[03:03.922]We're who the mic chose[03:05.833]You won't do shit about it mayne, can't tame these horses[03:09.522]Can't you see my breath breathe?[03:11.455]Is it cold outside or is it just me?[03:14.288]Through many three dog noches most freeze[03:17.148]We keep it lit, toast to these, OG's[03:20.789]"Too many winters and nights spent alone[03:26.179]Too many winters and nights spent alone[03:31.888]Too many winters and nights spent alone[03:37.643]Shadows of the loneliness you stare at the night