This is hard for me to write, it's difficult to express this
It's heavy on my shoulders and the weight gets relentless
The story of brothers and a beautiful friendship
And how relations get strained with pressure and tension

Who's wrong, correct, so, so, su**ective?
You look back, it's hard 'cos the mind gets adventurous
Dates get mixed up, facts disconnected
The only thing you remember is the feeling that you're left with
It started as a blessing

Now you could write this off as luck or one of life's coincidences
But at some point you think, goddamn what are the chances
Of people with similar interests and influences
Coming together at that moment to form a kinship

It's like you knew that you was brothers before your conception
Even if you're not a spiritual person, I admit ****
At that point, I wasn't but at some point it sets in
It'd be foolish to dismiss this as coincidence

Now this **** is different, somewhere this is written
Be part of a mission, this **** is predestined
Closer than close like flesh is to tendon
Share my 50 cent bag of chips with my freshman

Half a half a gas station, sandwich, no question
Talking **** to me, well, then talking **** to him then
Family is sacred, it must be protected
Family is sacred and it must be protected

Over time I don't know what happens, something got infected
People grow in different ways at different rates, I guess
It ridiculous, little ****, it suddenly gets big ****
Lapses in communication, glitches in the system

He said that she said what? Nobody said ****
But you'll never know 'cos everyone's p***ive aggressive
I sit down smoke pow wow, how everyone said ****
People cease to make the effort to get to the essence

Peep this **** out, though this **** is really twisted
Funny thing is that you and I do it every minute
We take it in rhetoric every time somebody says ****
Against us, stock piling every little incident

What's stupid is all the ******** that's circulating
Could be fixed in an instant with simple conversation
But you know how pride is, a ***** with her fist clenched
That mixed with the fat drama, gets addictive

Wounds need dressing and they don't receive attention
Snowballs and festers and creates resentment
People demonise each other, brave discontentment
But nobody could've been prepared for the next step

The nature of the predator is calculated, pensive
Waiting in the brush, patiently revving they engines
Despite the color that they got, all they see is crimson
Waiting for they prey to become desperate defenseless

Outside is always over just beyond the fences
Today the gate is open, though today they make an entrance
Friendly at first, laughs, jokes, like we best friends
Slowly though, you start to see they become hidden agendas

Nine to five, one day, insecure, self perceptions
Shines a spotlight on all those paranoid crevices
Things begin to heat up, everyone's already stretched thin
How could you be, well, how could you be so deceptive?

Any second now, someone will snap like a bread stick
And what once was simply dissolves like a breath mint
Just like that you start to ask yourself questions
“Is this really worth all the emotion and depressment?”

“Do the benefits and perks outweigh the pressure?”
Let me step back give this relationship ***essment
Let me step back give this relationship ***essment
Let me step back give this relationship ***essment