CAROLINA LOVE

(Kevin West)
September 03, 2011

CAROLINA LOVE Lyrics by Kevin West ADDAPTED FROM TUPAC SHAKUR'S CALIFORNIA LOVE Carolina love,

 *Carolina knows how to party. Carolina knows how to party. In the city of James island, in the city of folly beach, in the city, city of Charleston we keep it rockin’ we keep it rockin’ In the city where I’m at , Chucktown cackalack everybody’s gettin down cause we do it like that. Got the most beautiful girls in the world youd think youd died and gone to heaven on earth.If the grass is always greener this must be the other side. You aint never smoked nothing like this in your life. I’m bouncing off the walls cause it got me so high But you know that’s just how I get right. My days on the beach my evenings downtown Late night at the southern bell I get around .Livin the good life southern style ridin slow getting wild. Just a little somethin bout where I’m from tyrin to spread Carolina love with this jam I borrowed from Pac and Dre sing along when you here me say. *

IM ONLY ME

(Kevin West)
IM ONLY ME
Lyrics by Kevin West

*I’m only me and that’s all I can be I do what I want.
I been doin my own thing since I was little I keep on keeping on
Smoked up doped up high on the widow I hit it again
In a drop top next stop tryin to take it to the top im on my way

I’m only me, that’s all I’ve ever been
People think I’m crazy but I’m just stoned again
That’s why I’m laughing at the world even though it aint funny,
While I’m doin my thing tryin to make a little money
I was born in the west raised in the east
But here in the south is where is where I found peace
Not peace within, not peace of mind
But this little piece of weed that got me high
I used to write songs about girls & love
Now it seems I’m only writing about bitches & drugs
Cause I’m facing hard times so I’m committing hard crimes
I try to quit and commit my self to writing more rhymes
But the rhymes don’t pay the bills even though I’ve got more skills
Than most of the cats that are getting fat with the big time record deals
So hold up roll up fill another bowl up
Light it up puff down then you pass it over
We can hit it if your with doesn’t matter who lit it
We can smoke all night long
*
**Be yourself be yourself life is short don’t waste time trying to be somebody else
Be yourself be yourself you cant be anybody else so you know you might as well
Be yourself be your self don’t let anybody tell you what you can & can not be
Be your self be your self yours are the only eyes your ever gonna see the world through

I’m still the same playing the same game
Like a fool still searching for fortune & fame
But the alternative aint got much more to give
Working like a chump making somebody else rich
I’d rather die, than be some kind of slave
Stuck flipping burgers for Mc minimum wage
What else can I do but go out rob and steal
Though living like that will probably get me killed
So I sling a little on the side to help get by
Playing every other night in another dive
Writing song after song trying to hit but still missing
I’ll keep on at it as long as some one is listening
I turn up burn up try to get my earn up
Following this rode even though its curved up
I don’t care if it gets me nowhere I’d do it again

*

CHARLIE

(Kevin West)

CRAZY

(Kevin West)
CRAZY
Lyrics by Kevin West

*Crazy I’m loosin’ it maybe a little bit
Can you save me from myself I need some help
Crazy I’m loosin’ it maybe a little bit
Can you save me from myself I’m in a living hell

Crazy I lost my SHIT
I’m looking everywhere I can’t find it
These are crazy times in a crazy world
Listen to what your hearin’ on the radio
You got pretty little kids singing pretty little songs
Lip sinking on TV but the song was wrong
Little Ashley ran off the stage
Tried to blame it on the band cause her act is lame
But like Milli Vanilli that BITCH looked silly
With the mic in her hand like a big DICK willy
She didn’t know weather to spit or swallow
But look at the acts she’s trying to follow
Them boys and the girls from the Mickey Mouse club
Have all done it so what is she guilty of
I guess havin’ no talent’s not really a crime
No wonder I’ve gone
*
Crazy I lost mind
When it turns up I’m afraid of what I’ll find
Is the world really as insane as it seems
Or am I in the middle of some kind of bad dream
Bush is startin’ wars in the name of the lord
How can you be pro life and be pro war
I guess he really only cares for those on the right
You know the people I mean rich Christian and white
While the rest of us may as well shut up
Sit back and smile while we get FUCKED
The man goes on and on telling a lie
While the poor go on and on fightin’ and dyin’
Is the cost of oil the price for life
Cause the President said it doesn’t make it right
Somebody stole the American way
No wonder I stay
*

WHAT THE ?

(Kevin West)

LIFE OF CRIME

(Kevin West)
LIFE OF CRIME

*I spent my whole life up to no good takin what I could I know nothing good is ever gonna come my way
Now I try picking up the pieces of a poor mans life and I don’t know how much more I can take

A long time ago left out in the cold a boy all alone about ten years old
With nothing more than common sense left to get by
Momma passed away and daddy’s just gone I guess this means that I’m on my own
I think that’s about the 1rst time I got high
Now I’m getting high on everything except life , life brings me down so I gotta get up right?
Even though I know I’ll only go so far before I’ll want to quit trying
Cause when you got nothing and can’t get anything & nothing is all you’ve ever been
You’ve got no choice but to turn to a life of crime
*
I used to be an addict now I hustle to them fools tried to be a nice guy but nice guys loose
Spent a good bit of my life on the wrong side
Buying instead of selling always listening instead of telling either way through the eyes of the law I’m still a felon
So I might as well make a little change while I’m facing time
Facing time in a system for a crime with no victim old habits are hard to break should’ve kicked’m
Helping myself and my people to get by
Cause if I don’t it together shit’ll never get better so I do what I gotta do it doesn’t matter , whether
Or not it’s legal with out it id be better off dead
*
Now I’m hustlin to get by hittin the trees getting all juiced up like that shit was fresh squeezed
What some may call a life of crime
What you call a crime I call makin a livin cause the best things in life you gotta take they’re not givin
I feel each day I’m running out of time
*

IT AINT EASY BEING ME

(Kevin West)
IT AINT EASY BEING ME
Lyrics by Kevin West

Hello and welcome here to what I call my life and times
It’s the story of a young man and his, life time of crime
A menace to society that’s what I am so they tell me that
I’m dangerous and that’s strange because the only harm I’ve done I’ve don to me
Like usin’ abusin’ I’m guilty of all a the above it’s only because it aint easy being me

*Me I’m spinning round and round I don’t know which ways up or down
If my feet don’t fail me know I’ll keep turning on some how
Turning on turning about turning up all strung out
I know it all sounds kind of scarey but anything’s better than ordinary

Now the sun is shining high above me I’m feeling no pain
Thanks to the flower with a girl by the same name
A poor mans vacation anebriation all I can afford
A break from the aggravation of which I cant take any more
And more than before I feel I need to get away what more can I say
It aint easy being me

*
Now the moon is shining high above me I’m feeling the same
On the road to another show I’m headed once again
Today was just a day like yesterday was just a day
Tomorrow I’ll be on my way to better things at least I pray
I’ll be maybe in the next life we’ll see all I knows is in this life
It aint easy being me

*

IT AINT ALL BAD

(Kevin West)
IT AINT ALL BAD
Lyrics by Kevin West

I remember when I was a little kid
Tragedy introduced me to a life of sin
So I started acting up when I was only five
I lit up in preschool and got all the other kids high
And now I’m still smokin’ on that still smokin’ blount
Still hoping for a better life that may never come
Runnin’ straight ahead and fast tryin’ to escape my past
Headed straight for disaster don’t know how long I can last
Everyday I’m that much closer doin’ my best to make the most of
What the hell am I supposed to do I’m looking out for you know who
As time goes by I write more and more songs
About how bad life can be but don’t get me wrong
I still got my people and I even got a girl
That comes by every now and then to rock my world
Don’t worry about me I’ll be just fine
Sometimes I get it right

*It aint all bad Havin’ nothin’ but a good time to help you forget about
The life you’ve had That’s how you make it right
Out on the Ave. Sometimes you get high cause you’ve gotta get by
So it aint all bad livin this kinda life

It aint all bad livin’ this kinda life the kinda life where things don’t always go right
My roof is leaking my A C is broke that’s why I’m hot as FUCK and my SHIT’S all soaked
But I’m the kinda guy who sees the bright side still free water and a smaller electric bill
Life is life so why complain you’ll drive yourself insane

*
I walked in the door I was standing in the dark
Seems the man came by and shut the power of
So I lit up a candle and a little something else
To light my way and enlighten myself
I grabbed a pen and paper started writing this song
That’s what I do when things go wrong
Its either that or grab a gun and start shooting everyone
Even though it sounds like fun I don’t hurt no one
Life is hard but why ask why I just feel lucky to be alive
After all the things that I have seen like living in a bad dream
But every now and then I wake up and smile
Light up puff down get high and get wild
I just keep smoking never shed a tear
Why be bitter after all these years
Don’t worry about me ill be just fine
Sometimes I get it right

*

SLOW RIDE

(Kevin West)
SLOWRIDE

I’m rollin I role up I role the windows down I turn the music up
Ridin dirty across town trying to spread it around everybody getting high that’s how I get down
I’m a rider rollin slow cause I’m holdin enough to get everybody I know stoned and
Laughin at the world through a smoked up haze I try to leave a smile on everybody’s face
From place to place from door to door the trick is always leave’m wantin some more
More of the funk you know they gotta have it addicted to the bomb this hundred dollar habit
But they get theirs and I get mine I get paid and they get high
You know I couldn’t ask for more what do you think I’m rollin for

*Rollin takin a slow ride in the neighborhood everybody’s lightin up when I roll by
I’m only makin the world go by a little bit easier for me and my kind
Rollers following my ride in the rear view creepin up tryin to catch me while I get mine
So what you know I don’t mind I’m rollin takin a slow ride

Slow ride I’m so high rollin all over town then back to JI
Looks like I’m getting low so I’m about to go to the reup spot replenish my flow
Then it’s back to the grind out hustle’n kind I’m in no hurry I take my time
Time to enjoy the finer things in life like them beautiful girls that do them dirty things I like
I’m playin the game like an MVP cats want to know how so they listen to me
All you need to know is here in my words the truth about life incase you haven’t heard
So listen real close to what you hear when I’m sayin what I’m sayin it’s totally clear
You now I’ve got no where to go that’s why I’m ridin slow

*

TO BUSY LOOKIN GOOD

(Kevin West)

EXCUSE ME BEAUTIFUL

(Kevin West)
EXCUSE ME BEAUTIFUL
Lyrics by Kevin West

*Excuse me beautiful but would you like to get down
With a cat that knows how to treat a lady even though I get around
I’m not the kind of guy that’ll love you for the rest of your life
But I can give you the best love you’ve ever had in one night

You’re shaking those hips and your looking real fine I see you checking me out the corner of your eye
So I just figured I’d say hello my name is K-DUB tell me what’s yours
Would you like to sit and talk a while, maybe have a couple drinks see if I can make you smile
I’m sure I can in more ways than one you’ll be calling me super man by the time I’m done
You ever seen the world looking down from the stars if you let me hit it once you’ll swear you are
Don’t you know that I’m the guy that put the O in love baby come with me I’ll show you what I’m speaking of baby
You’re the finest thing I’d seen all night I know what you need and I’ll do it right since your looking my way
I just figured I’d say
*
Whatcha drinking pretty lady can I get you another I know what thinking pretty lady you’d like a new love
But I’m not talking about fallin in love I’m talking bout getting it on until the early morning
Just the other day I met another girl but now I’m looking at you and I’m forgettin all about her
I’m just trying to get with it stick it flip it up and lick it I’m about to get sick with it that’s how I hit it
You’ve never had the pleasure until you’ve had me I’m what they use to measure how good love can be
On a scale of 1 to 10 they rate me a 25 cause I’m just that much better than all the other cats trying
I’m about to get out of here and go get high would you like to come with me and gat high a while
Since your looking my way I just figured I’d say

Excuse me mister but you need to slow down
If you know how to treat a lady you know how I get down
I’m not the kind of girl that’ll love you for the rest off your life
But if your lucky I’ll give you the best love you’ve ever had in one night

Excuse me beautiful but are you ready to get down
I don’t live very far from here if you’d like to come around
I’m right behind you and man what a sight
I’m about to give you to the best love you’ve ever had in one night

WHO THE ?

(Kevin West)

A DAY IN THE LIFE (of me)

(Kevin West)
A DAY IN THE LIFE
Lyrics by Kevin West

I wake up when the suns warm with a pain in my head I’m thinking about the night before those things I might have said
With some help from mother nature , my head will be just fine Now all I have to think a bout is how to pass the time
Now I smile at the world, as I go through my day not what I need but all I have to make me feel this way
The answer to a question relief from my pain glassy eyes a thin disguise they’re sometimes worn in vain

*A day in the life of me my head up in the clouds
The night before was wild but I’m feeing it now
I don’t remember where I was or even what I did last night
But it must have been good cause I’m feeling like I should
Go out and do it again tonight

Now it’s 7 o’clock so I start to walk up the block to get me a drink
When this girl rides up screamin hey what the fuck where the hell have you been
I’m like bitch I don’t know you I haven’t ever seen you before in my whole life
She said that aint what you said last night when you was hittin it you promised id be your wife
I told her girl your mistakin what kind of drugs you takin you must have me confused
She put her middle finger up and drove off all abrupt saying “FUCK YOU”
And as she drove away I must say something was familiar
You know I think there was this girl last night I guess that could’ve been her

*
Now I’m at the spot and I’m on the stage I got the mike in one hand in the other grandmanier
About to tell the story of my life a hard luck tale set to rythum and rhymes
I’m 4 songs in and I’m 10 drinks deep I see this little cutie and she’s looking at me
A little while later her and I are out the door what do you think I’m in this for
It’s all about the ladies

I lay down when the night is through and I think about my day
All the things that I had done those games I had to play
Now I rest and close my eyes into the night time I descend
To wake up when the suns warm and do it all over again

*

SORRY

(Kevin West)
SORRY

*Sorry I’m not what you want me to be remember I told you before it aint easy being me
Livin my life this way is the only way I know though I hate it when you leave me I’ve gotta let you go

From the start I told you if I hit it one time you’d be in love for the rest of your life
But I never thought you’d give it a try to be honest with you I still don’t know why
All American girl all American life the American dream turned out all right
With the kind of guy your mother warned you about the kind of guy that likes to get around
I’m not even sure if I believe in love not even sure what I’m thinking of
Sometimes it’s music but sometimes it’s you with this song I figured I’d combine the two
Maybe I can try and explain why I am the way I am not sure if I got my point across
Somewhere in this verse my point was lost

*

Let me try again to say what’s on my mind you & I been doing this for a long time
While you get better I only make it worse cause in my life my music always comes first
All I want to do is get out of this place play my music somewhere new each day
While you’d rather have me by your side livin in some kind of fairy tale life
I’m not even sure if you believe in me if you believe I can be what I want to be
Either way it don’t matter cause I’ve gotta try it aint like I’m gonna get another chance at life
Maybe I may be insane thinking I can be more than I am only time will tell if I’m right or wrong
I never thought someone like you would come along

*

I’m sorry baby I didn’t lead you on I didn’t just play you a tune I wrote you a beautiful song
But like most beautiful songs this one will probably end sad like my life & the times that I’ve had
You are my shining star & I think don’t you go away
Then I think again about how I am can’t help but wonder what would ever make you stay
With me in this life of crime HA silly rhymes even when life is good I’m fallin on hard times
Cause I’ll never be satisfied till’ I’m top of my game I mean I aint trying to go out a fuckin no name
So I trade love for loneliness the artist’s paradise you know I do it for the love of the music and I don’t think twice
And I hope some day I don’t look back in regret I guess in the long run I deserve what I get

*

I CANT WAIT

(Kevin West)
I CAN’T WAIT
Lyrics by Kevin West


I cant wait till I’m older I’m gonna do what I wanna do when I wanna
I can’t wait till summertime them beautiful girls on the beach so fine
I can’t wait till school ‘s out this year is goin’ slow
All I gotta do is see my way though then I go where I wanna go
I can’t wait for anything so FUCK it I’m young and got the whole wide world in my pocket
If I got one thing it’s plenty of time to figure out what I’m gonna do with my life
I can’t wait to get out of here don’t know where I’m gonna go
But where ever it is will be better than this cause I’ll be on my own

*We spend our whole lives wishing the day to end
Because tomorrow must be better than today has been
But then one day your older you think where has the time gone
Did I wish it all away

I can’t wait till tomorrow comes I’m gonna get up go out and get somethin done
I can’t wait till I get home tonight I’m gonna role somethin and feel alright
I can’t wait to get movin traffic’s goin slow
Just to get a few miles it takes a while getting where I gotta go
I can’t wait to get my check go and cash it spend a few dollars more on my bad habits
I can’t wait to give this pretty girl a call I met the other night at city bar
I can’t wait for the weekend my chance to get away
From all the foolish bullshit that I put up with as I live day to day

*

I can’t wait till my life slows down I’m gonna hold up take a deep breath look around
If I could only turn back time I’d go back and do everything in my life right
I can’t wait for the morning my chance for another day
Cause you can’t go back so I guess that’s that time’s still slippin away

*

BORN TO DIE

(Kevin West)
BORN TO DIE
Lyrics by Kevin West

*I was born to die so don’t cry for me
When my time comes it was meant to be
I’ve cheated death more than once I’m livin on borrowed time
The reaper and the devil want this soul of mine

I drank gasoline when I was two they all thought for sure that I was through
But I woke up the next morning smiling wide that gas didn’t do shit but get me high
Not long after that, things only got worse I don’t know why I guess I’m just cursed
An accident took away all I had left me alone in world that’s bad
In the neighborhood little freckled faced kid getting his ass kicked cause his hair is red
And it’s bad at home on top of it the old mans got a bottle then me to hit
So I learned how to fight at an early age hit hard hit first hit with rage
Then the next step to being totally corrupt is to start doin drugs and getting fucked up
So that’s what I did by the age of 12 I’d already lived through a living hell
I wake up every morning I’m surprised to be alive how did I survive when it seems I was
*
Before I knew it I was truant to cool for school the only role models I had were fools
The lessons I learned I learned out in the street like where to get the good shit and not get beat
When you’ve got no where to go you might as well get high at least you’ll go some where in your mind
P funk to dust hittin the new bomber z to smoking up yayo like it was free
I did what I had to too ease the pain the people I knew lives lost in vain
From the drugs and violence to dui’s I even know a cat did suicide
I woke up one morning in a hospital bed the doctor said son your lucky you’re not dead
A motorcycle wreck you wrapped your bike around a tree the man said you must have been ninety
You know, It’s not to late for you to save yourself make an escape from this living hell
I looked up nodded my head and smiled knowing all the while
*
A young man livin in a grown mans world it’s hard growin up when your future’s unsure
If the good die young I must be bad cause I’m still here despite the life I’ve had
I know it sounds bad but maybe I’m not cursed maybe I’ve been blessed I guess it could’ve been worse
Maybe momma never left me when she died maybe she went to protect me from the other side
Either way I’m ok I’ve done all I can learning the hard way to be a man
At least I’ve been smart enough to not get caught smart enough to stay high and not give up
I know I’ve made my share of mistakes but I’ve always done what ever it takes
And I’ve realized one thing if nothing at all it’s that we were all
*

DEAR MOMMA

(Kevin West)
DEAR MOMMA
Lyrics by Kevin West 1324 FENWICK PLNTN RD. JOHNS ISLAND SC, 29455 (843-270-6303)

Dear momma I’m sorry things happened like this
I know you wanted more for your oldest kid
I should’ve been a good example for my little brother O
How he turned out right I’ll never no
It was hard for me growing up like I did
Being the man of the house when I was a little kid
I saw you working so hard but still you were struggling
While them cats I saw out sellin drugs was lovin it
They’re rollin in cash wearin nice clothes
Getting that ass from all them pretty ho’s
Which life did you expect me to choose?
So I jumped right in the game with both shoes
But all I did was hustle never carried a gun
3 strikes later I’m more than out I’m done
I’ll probably be here forever or until I’m very old
Though they’ve locked me up they cant lock up my soul
So don’t cry for me just try for me
To go out and live a good life for me
Tell my little brother I said stay low
I just wanted to send my love

*Dear momma I hope this reaches you and your doin fine
I wish I could be with you but I’m sittin here doin time
I’m far away and if I’m coming home I don’t know when
I just wanted to say I miss you

Dear momma it’s me your youngest son
Still fighting this war even though they said we won
I only signed up so I could get an education
Now I’m half way round the world with no explanation
Of how long I’ll be here or what I’m here for
You wouldn’t believe what I’ve seen in this war
What happened to them rich guys who started this thing?
They’re probably sittin at home sipping champagne
While I’m here in the middle of a fire fight
Up praying every night to a higher might
Lord, take me home so I can go study law
Get my brother out of jail bring a smile to my ma
Now I keep my head low try to stay alive
Taking every day one step at a time
I hope my next step isn’t my last
When shit happens here it happens fast
So when you pray for me just say for me
God please save a better day for me
I hope he can forgive me for the things that I’ve done
I didn’t want to hurt anyone
*
Dear son, I’m sorry to send bad news
And I’m afraid it’s the worst kind I can send to you
There was a battle in Fallujah and your brother was lost
I hope the cause was worth the cost
My babies were soldiers fighting different wars
Fighting side by side with Americas poor
The war on drugs and the war on terrorism
Has got one son dead and the other one in prison
While the FBI with the patriot act
Took the neighbors away they never came back
I can’t help but wonder if I’ll be next
They may as well take me I’ve got nothing left
Cause my love for you was not enough for you
To bring you home and make it up to you
I got a letter from your brother just the other day
The last thing he said was
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THEN THEY CAME FOR ME

(Kevin West)