A Valiant Effort by East Coast Avengers
A Valiant Effort lyrics
[Verse 1: Trademarc]
My ears are ringing, it�s like children singing or
humming
I�m numb and I�m thinking it�s nothing
I�m confused by the booze and medication
It�s modern-day meditation
My generation sees that combination as an expectation
Half-done, I�m moving in slo-mo
Through an imitation of life, it�s like an illustration
or a photo
But the perspective ain�t right
It�s like the lights cast by a yo-yo in midflight
It�s too bright, I�m confused and lost
I feel transparent and barren and used
Like a red herring tossed and forced in my own thoughts
with no bearing
Black to light, back to life and I breathe in
I sit up, I�m light headed, the world is out of focus
I know this, I try to get up, I instantly regret it
I spit up, I don�t get it, the glow, the world looks
overexposed
Or like a negative with shadows where the colours
should go and vice versa
I�m thrown by the ring of the phone like inertia
Flown like a cyclone, head spinning
Still blown from the beginning, I�m sitting in front of
my body
Now on the bed, dead grinning, a red linen, brain
spilling
Conflicted, the wounds looks self-inflicted like it�s
scripted
A knock on the door, I feel distant like staring
backwards
Through binoculars, inconsistent, the picture fades
I�m non-existent but I�m persistent, I wanna stay!
You can�t see me this way, I love you momma!
[Verse 2: Esoteric]
Aw shit, what the fuck did I walk into?
My man�s a bloody mess up in his room, he cut his flesh
Drugged up like Hunter S., must�ve been under stress
Nonetheless he flunked the test, succumbing to life�s
ugliness
A gun to his chest and head, a knife to his wrists, he
bled
Twisted lead�s fucked him up like his sister said
Plus Erica left him for some war on terror veteran
Now he�s dying in the bed they never slept in
I crept in and saw the blood on the hand that his
writing pen was kept in
That his medical depression was prepped in
Suicide, glazed over as poetic expression, a valiant
effort
I had the chance to step in but said, �F it�
Dawg, why�d you do this to us? You know what this crew
is to us
Your mom tried this shit in �91 now she�s dialing 911
I think your time has come, this being the top one
Dumbest things you ever done
I know your life is erased, no one ever could have won
You�d rather dream than live now my head is hung
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