[00:00.30](feat. Hasan Salaam)[00:00.69][Chorus: Akir + Hasan][00:01.17]This is beginning and end, the answer and the reason[00:02.70]This the life and the death, the changin of the seasons[00:05.40]It's the joy and the pain, the angels and the demons[00:08.10]It's a wonderous thing, the changin of the seasons[00:10.77]This is beginning and end, the answer and the reason[00:13.44]This the life and the death, the changin of the seasons[00:16.17]It's the joy and the pain, the angels and the demons[00:18.90]It's a wonderous thing[00:19.71][Hasan Salaam:][00:20.13]In the winter of his discontent[00:21.57]He was birthed like a verse from the gospel[00:24.00]Pops was ghost, moms played host to the Johns in the brothel[00:27.27]Never heard any words to encourage out his mom's mouth[00:30.45]How to cook up all the hook-ups, was learned from the men[00:33.12]that she let in the house, turned out by the business[00:35.82]Missed a lot more than Christmas, giftless, childhood was a juvenile hell[00:39.99]Knew his number better than himself as he peered down his cell[00:43.08][Akir:][00:43.26]Out of the darkness, in a cold labyrinth[00:45.15]that haunts us, his man parks up[00:46.80]Pullin heat out compartments like, spring into action[00:49.29]Cash is satisfaction, I'm sunk askin him livin life hype[00:52.53]He observes but back to the curb to sound the white birds[00:55.32]and NexTel chirps, he can tell he's accustomed by his 2-way alert[00:58.53]New opportunties blossomed, from ****** he met locked in[01:01.50]and old ****** that he knew that acted like they just forgot him (uhh)[01:12.39][Chorus][01:18.27][Hasan Salaam:][01:24.96]Life seemed like mid summer night's dream[01:27.15]Got a crib and a queen - first seed on the way[01:29.73]due November 17th, shorty settin the scene[01:32.31]Beggin him to get his act clean to the right side of the law[01:35.28]But his audience was the money machine's constant applause[01:38.01]Never concerned with the effects, just out for the cause[01:40.47]To get back what he lost, he hustled at all cost[01:43.38]Started to floss foolish, pigs watchin the movements[01:46.08]Every clue got his Judas[01:47.28][Akir:][01:47.76]Uhh, he holds onto the wall[01:48.90]hopin that he won't fall, feelin his life slip away[01:51.57]Watchin the leaves float away, in the yard[01:53.85]The closest that he gets to guard the only bars he thought he'd be in[01:56.79]would be filled with pretty women and TV's playin ESPN[01:59.91]And now he can't control his peein[02:01.50]The family that he never had but used to seein[02:03.81]in his daydreamin turn they back and started leavin[02:06.15]Come to demons and that instant turns to a infant, the change of seasons[02:17.10][Chorus][02:25.92][Outro:][02:41.67]This is beginning and end, the answer and the reason[02:44.46]This the life and the death, the changin of the seasons[02:47.19]It's the joy and the pain, the angels and the demons[02:49.89]It's a wonderous thing