Who's to blame for the state I'm in 
I play my cards but somehow I can't win 

[Verse 1] 
Listen when life leaves you beaten up 
Don't lay around in it, hurry pick them pieces up 
Cling closely to the people you love 
they're your umbrella when the weathers tough 
See to it that your head is up 
If not just remember this 
just never let your chest and your chin touch in public 
Those that stand against us would love this 
Man [bad word] them, something's bugging em' 
they feel inadequate or something and that's been dug in em' 
So deep they can't stand someone else making [bad word] 
Player hatred, same concept created Satan 
Play em, no never mind let em play their part 
They're here to make us prove we are what we say we are 
We say we are the hard hearted 
been discarded from everything we've ever been part of 
They just robbed it 
Unguarded, tormented and tortured 
and got nothing but scars and grey hairs to show for it  [bad word] that, every stone that's ever been cast or blow that ever landed 
Helped to build that man that's standing before your [bad word] [bad word] 
and back to wreak havoc and never retired, retreated or recanted 
I, don't expect you to have stood where I'm standing 
Why, repsect is the only thing I'm demanding 
Try, you and I could build this understanding 
You can't honestly shake unless you know where my hand's been brother 
 [bad word]  
This is a piece of my puzzle now 
Through the years I found peace in my [bad word] now 
If we were put here to carry a great weight 
The very things we hate are here to build those muscles 

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This is a piece of my puzzle now 
Through the years I found peace in my [bad word] now 
(Who'se to blame for the state I'm in - Yours [bad word] 
I play my cards but somehow I can't win) 

[Verse 2] 
Listen I was taught that mistakes made with great intentions 
were never sins but where life lessons begin 
Now that I'm 27, single father starting over yet again 
I am who I have to forgive 
Lost my mumma to cancer, closed a 10 year chapter shortly after 
Can't deny that was some [bad word] 
Alone in this life would've been at my throat with a knife chop 
were it not for my passion to live 
Follow my soul, not that I don't know the penalty 
But that's the legacy that I pass to my kids 
Heard of shining in the heat of the moment 
and won my freedom the moment I realised that's what this... 
 [bad word]  

[Bridge] {X2} 
I can't believe my eyes Lord 
I don't know what I'm seeing 
I done watched them smash into little pieces everything I've been building 
I can't believe my ears Lord 
I don't know what I'm hearing 
I heard they smash into little pieces everything I've been building 

Who'se to blame for the state I'm in 
I play my cards but somehow I can't win