The Truth (Hurts)
A lot of foul shit's happening in the world today
You blink and miss a massacre
Try to act it's too late
For some their story's over
Books closed, and put away
For others just makin' it through the day's
The day-to-day
It could be poverty or somethin' you can't see
Keepin 'em down
Brave-faced
Facing the world takes more muscles to frown
Than to smile but sometimes
Yo, life takes work
One day you're doing the hurting
The next day, you're getting hurt
External pressures internal stressors
Making you lose track
Of what's important & what's not
Difficult to bounce back
When you've been let down
Easy or hard don't matter
Illusions got me disillusioned
Am I sadder or madder?
That world's not the place
That maybe I thought it was
Guess all I can really do is be there
For the people I love
But I need that love back
Cuz this world is so whack
When "Good News" just means "No Bad News,"
We gotta get back on track
Sometimes the truth hurts
Even though it might set you free
Or get you locked up
Locked down
Physically or mentally
You gotta be
Ready for the pain before the gain
Sometimes the truth hurts
When it swings back your way
Sometimes the truth hurts
Even though it might set you free
Or get you locked up
Locked down
Physically or mentally
You gotta be
Ready for the pain before the gain
Sometimes the truth hurts
When it swings back your way
Man it's hard to just be
Never mind be positive
When it seems like everybody's straight
Tryna tell us how to live
They tell us not to hate
Unless directed at this or that
As long as it helps the bottom line
Helps us get our enemies back
And then regimes change
Enemies and allegiances shift
Then it happens over and over
'Til there's no making sense of it
Blood on everybody's hands
Yo pass the sanitizer
Man I'm prayin' for knowledge
But we're getting no wiser
As a people gotta fight hard
Against the fake facts
Ask questions
Stay curious
Watch your back
It's all schemes & scams
Try to not take the phisher's bait
Everybody's tryna get you for your money
So don't fall for the fake
It's wolves in sheep's clothing everywhere
Tryna take you off the trail
The noise is louder than the signal
But no one's too big to fail
We've got to stay headstrong
Because we're not here for long
So don't let a bad note
Ruin your whole damn song
Sometimes the truth hurts
Even though it might set you free
Or get you locked up
Locked down
Physically or mentally
You gotta be
Ready for the pain before the gain
Sometimes the truth hurts
When it swings back your way
Sometimes the truth hurts
Even though it might set you free
Or get you locked up
Locked down
Physically or mentally
You gotta be
Ready for the pain before the gain
Sometimes the truth hurts
When it swings back your way
I sit back
Get a little buzzed on a couple levels
Feels like it's all I can do
To keep my mind on the level
Sorta settled I guess
I mean... kinda like a little
Our society's got me feeling doped up
Numb, brittle
Like violence and corruption
And corruption and violence
Misdirection misinformation
Interference for your silence
Anonymous sources are claiming
A bit of this
Some of that
Meanwhile reps for the accused have no
Comments to add
Now they're talking bout allegations
They've been sitting on waiting
Tryna distract us enough
That they can pay away court dates and
Get back to working between the rules
They're meant for us anyway
Got us lookin' left
Smack us with the right
That's how it goes today
I guess all's fair in love and war
And the pursuit of money
Unless you're part of the 99 percent
Then it's not funny
They take from the "doing okay,"
To better the rich
Ignore the poor
Can't they just rely on their fellow citizens more?
It's time to stand up to the few that's in power
And demand some truth now
Cuz the time is ours!
Sometimes the truth hurts
Even though it might set you free
Or get you locked up
Locked down
Physically or mentally
You gotta be
Ready for the pain before the gain
Sometimes the truth hurts
When it swings back your way
Sometimes the truth hurts
Even though it might set you free
Or get you locked up
Locked down
Physically or mentally
You gotta be
Ready for the pain before the gain
Sometimes the truth hurts
When it swings back your way
And it does swings back your way
Maybe not today
But it does swing back your way
This is JKrazy
The Valley City
Benny P let that beat ride out
You blink and miss a massacre
Try to act it's too late
For some their story's over
Books closed, and put away
For others just makin' it through the day's
The day-to-day
It could be poverty or somethin' you can't see
Keepin 'em down
Brave-faced
Facing the world takes more muscles to frown
Than to smile but sometimes
Yo, life takes work
One day you're doing the hurting
The next day, you're getting hurt
External pressures internal stressors
Making you lose track
Of what's important & what's not
Difficult to bounce back
When you've been let down
Easy or hard don't matter
Illusions got me disillusioned
Am I sadder or madder?
That world's not the place
That maybe I thought it was
Guess all I can really do is be there
For the people I love
But I need that love back
Cuz this world is so whack
When "Good News" just means "No Bad News,"
We gotta get back on track
Sometimes the truth hurts
Even though it might set you free
Or get you locked up
Locked down
Physically or mentally
You gotta be
Ready for the pain before the gain
Sometimes the truth hurts
When it swings back your way
Sometimes the truth hurts
Even though it might set you free
Or get you locked up
Locked down
Physically or mentally
You gotta be
Ready for the pain before the gain
Sometimes the truth hurts
When it swings back your way
Man it's hard to just be
Never mind be positive
When it seems like everybody's straight
Tryna tell us how to live
They tell us not to hate
Unless directed at this or that
As long as it helps the bottom line
Helps us get our enemies back
And then regimes change
Enemies and allegiances shift
Then it happens over and over
'Til there's no making sense of it
Blood on everybody's hands
Yo pass the sanitizer
Man I'm prayin' for knowledge
But we're getting no wiser
As a people gotta fight hard
Against the fake facts
Ask questions
Stay curious
Watch your back
It's all schemes & scams
Try to not take the phisher's bait
Everybody's tryna get you for your money
So don't fall for the fake
It's wolves in sheep's clothing everywhere
Tryna take you off the trail
The noise is louder than the signal
But no one's too big to fail
We've got to stay headstrong
Because we're not here for long
So don't let a bad note
Ruin your whole damn song
Sometimes the truth hurts
Even though it might set you free
Or get you locked up
Locked down
Physically or mentally
You gotta be
Ready for the pain before the gain
Sometimes the truth hurts
When it swings back your way
Sometimes the truth hurts
Even though it might set you free
Or get you locked up
Locked down
Physically or mentally
You gotta be
Ready for the pain before the gain
Sometimes the truth hurts
When it swings back your way
I sit back
Get a little buzzed on a couple levels
Feels like it's all I can do
To keep my mind on the level
Sorta settled I guess
I mean... kinda like a little
Our society's got me feeling doped up
Numb, brittle
Like violence and corruption
And corruption and violence
Misdirection misinformation
Interference for your silence
Anonymous sources are claiming
A bit of this
Some of that
Meanwhile reps for the accused have no
Comments to add
Now they're talking bout allegations
They've been sitting on waiting
Tryna distract us enough
That they can pay away court dates and
Get back to working between the rules
They're meant for us anyway
Got us lookin' left
Smack us with the right
That's how it goes today
I guess all's fair in love and war
And the pursuit of money
Unless you're part of the 99 percent
Then it's not funny
They take from the "doing okay,"
To better the rich
Ignore the poor
Can't they just rely on their fellow citizens more?
It's time to stand up to the few that's in power
And demand some truth now
Cuz the time is ours!
Sometimes the truth hurts
Even though it might set you free
Or get you locked up
Locked down
Physically or mentally
You gotta be
Ready for the pain before the gain
Sometimes the truth hurts
When it swings back your way
Sometimes the truth hurts
Even though it might set you free
Or get you locked up
Locked down
Physically or mentally
You gotta be
Ready for the pain before the gain
Sometimes the truth hurts
When it swings back your way
And it does swings back your way
Maybe not today
But it does swing back your way
This is JKrazy
The Valley City
Benny P let that beat ride out
Credits
Writer(s): Paul A Hampton, George Alexander Tasch, Jonas Cabrera, Jared Palazzolo, Mark Douglas Cummmings, Woodrow Diaz, Wirtzfield O Kip, Robert D Alvarado, John M Alvarado
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