Wish I Could Smile - K Rino

Everybody know how much hate this world brung out

I guess that’s why babies be screaming when they come out

Minute after minute, struggle can’t take one off

The days is even dark, somebody musta pissed the Sun off

Now, how the hell am I supposed to smile at that?

Never understood how boys be cheesing when their pockets flat

Can’t help slackers, gotta cut the love off

Hanging ‘round broke people, broke thoughts rubbed off

I don’t do nothing for the sound of applause

The only thing I truly own can be found in my drawers

Frustration and aggravation, what’s the number one cause?

Inside of fake homies, haters, baby-mamas and laws

My own problem, I can’t iron it out

So now I’m crying every night on my psychiatrist’s couch

Going in, thinking ‘bout my dead partners and I teared up

Life is so cold, I watch the news to get cheered up

I wish I could smile, baby

Ninety percent of the time, I usually don’t give a fuck

I’m cool but everybody around me so fucked up

I say I wish I could smile, baby

Life is a bitch then you die

Maybe then me and my people can smile

Y’all already know it’s been hard and sometimes I wanted to die

And since I never been too much of a man to cry

Many days with a face full of water

Stressing like I wonder if my daughter’s really my daughter

Bitchass IRS done froze all of my bank accounts

Keith Harris, I’ma whoop your ass for that, just giving you something to think

about

Tampering with evidence and misdemeanor possessions

State troopers treated a nigga like they saw me with a weapon

Attorney general so greedy, they like, «We need mo'

That’s all you got, Mr. McVey?

Ain’t you a CEO?»

It might be easy for you to smile, but you ain’t me

Been on probation since February, but I still ain’t free

2Pac said you gotta find a way to smile through the bullshit

Otherwise, every ten seconds, you’ll be like, «This some bullshit»

I smoke a blunt to take the pain out

And if I wasn’t blessed, I’d probably try to blow my brains out

Smile

I wish I could smile, baby

Ninety percent of the time, I usually don’t give a fuck

I’m cool but everybody around me so fucked up

I say I wish I could smile, baby

Life is a bitch then you die

Maybe then me and my people can smile

You niggas rather see me frowning than smiling and getting it

But I been had the world on my shoulders, I’m a soldier, God is my witness

Better know the street life will turn you out

But if you a street nigga, that 9-to-5 might burn you out

So you thinking of a better way to get cash, dodging the feds and the dope pad

I-10 with a chicken and a dough stack as the world turns slow, I move fast

X on my back and the penitentiary on my heels

Got me weaving through these snakes, ready to bust the steel, peel at will

That’s real, so why in the fuck would I trust y’all haters?

Y’all ain’t ‘bout that gangsta shit, you can put my name on some paper

Ain’t no loyalty in you, ain’t no rules that you play by

It’s cutthroat on everybody for the fame and the stay fly

Is you serious?

I thank God for the mind that he gave me

To help me navigate the street life and to slip these shadies

Klondike Kat gon' keep them snakes back ‘cause they hatin' is crazy

But I’ma stay forever real until they dirt and they grave me, that’s why I smile