Artist: 2Pac 
Song:   Ballad Of A Dead Soulja
Album:  Until The End Of Time
Typed by: k21@mail.direcpc.com ; troublesome@online.de

[Intro - 2Pac]
Yeah
Ballad Of A Dead Soulja
This is the Ballad Of A Dead Soulja
This is the Ballad Of A Dead Soulja
Come hear the Ballad Of A Dead Soulja

[Verse 1]
The plan to take command of the whole family
Though underhanded to be the man, it was planned
All my roaddogz official mob figgaz love to act up
The first to bomb when we rob niggaz - I can be
Lost in my own mind
To be the boss only thought's grippin chrome nines
Niggaz get tossed up
War scars, battlefield memories
Swore I saw the devil in my empty glass of hennessey
Talkin to a nigga on a tight leash
Screamin fuck tha police
As I ride through the night streets
Little child runnin wild
Towards danger, what's the cause
Don't be alarmed, death to all strangers
Maybe I'm a madman
A pistol grabbin nigga - unleash the sandman
Promise a merciless retaliation
Nothin' is colder
Close your eyes - hear the Ballad Of A Dead Soulja


[Chorus]
(singing)
Thug 4 Life I will be
('Pac)
This is the Ballad Of A Dead Soulja
(singing)
A life of crime I will lead
('Pac)
Close your eyes and hear the Ballad Of A Dead Soulja
(singing)
If you play the game, you play to win
('Pac)
This is the Ballad Of A Dead Soulja
(singing)
It's a crazy world full of sin
('Pac)
Close your eyes


[Verse 2]
Completely lost, revenge at all cost
Payback's a bitch - switch now the trick's crossed
Tossed up and never to be heard of
A single witness screamin' bloody murder, murder
Blast - tell me homie whatcha see now
A blind man and a dead body
I'm read' to leave town
And get my cash though
Hook up with Kastro
Homie had to blast on the task force
Stupid coppers tried to play us out
Never that
They took my money and my stash
Time to get 'em back - haha
Upon my secret arrival
Two glock four-fives time for survival
Death to my rivals
Tell me what you want lord
Nobody left after the death of a drug lord, haha
The situation's critical
Nothin' is colder
Than hear the Ballad Of A Dead Soulja


[Chorus]
(singing)
Thug 4 Life I will be
('Pac)
This is the Ballad Of A Dead Soulja
(singing)
A life of crime I will lead
('Pac)
Close your eyes and hear the Ballad Of A Dead Soulja
(singing)
If you play the game, you play to win
('Pac)
This is a Ballad Of A Dead Soulja
(singing)
It's a crazy world full of sin
('Pac)
c-c-c-close your eyes and hear the Ballad Of A Dead Soulja


[Verse 3]
Big coward put your hands to the moon
When my glocks rang out
The niggaz came out - boom
Who wanna see me in a challenge?
So merciless I'm terrifyin' niggaz in my ballad
Do you feel me?
Coppo a copper time
One day I'll be the don
Until then remain strong
My only fear of death is reincarnation
Bustin' at my adversaries like a mental patient
To all my niggaz facin' sixty years
Sheddin' tattoo tears, another suicidial on the peer
Takin' private planes tryin' to survive the game
For all my homies that'll never be alive again
All they promise us is death nigga
Take a breath - could be the last one left nigga
It's real now, huh
Feel it and fantasize
Ain't nothin' colder
Listen you could hear it
The Ballad Of A Dead Soulja


[Chorus]
(singing)
Thug 4 Life I will be
('Pac)
This is the Ballad Of A Dead Soulja
(singing)
The life of crime I will lead
('Pac)
c-c-c-close your eyes - hear the Ballad Of A Dead Soulja
(singing)
If you play the game, you play to win
('Pac)
This is the Ballad Of A Dead Soulja
(singing)
It's a crazy world full of sin
('Pac)
c-c-c-close your eyes and hear the Ballad Of A Dead Soulja


[Outro]
(2Pac)
This go out to Kato, Mental
All the niggaz that done passed away
(this is the Ballad of A Dead Soulja)
Mutulu
Geronimo
All the down ass ridahs
All the niggaz that put it down
All the souljas
All the niggaz that go through that day-to-day struggle
(this is the Ballad of A Dead Soulja)
All the niggaz that passed on
All the niggaz with ambition and money in they heart
All the niggaz that want some and that don't take none hahaha
(this is the Ballad of A Dead Soulja)
Police is so scared of us
Oh the feds? they aware of us
They wanna see us dead
They got pictures of a nigga head
(Ballad of A Dead Soulja)
Tryin' to see me in chains
Shit - them niggaz'll never breath again
Before they put me in a cell they'll see me in hell
(cause it's the Ballad of A Dead Soulja)
Got my pistols cocked
Run the whole muthafuckin' block
Fuck the cops
The police? we run these streets, nigga
(they heard the Ballad of A Dead Soulja)
These niggaz can't see me
Half the world wanna be me
Multi-millionaire - shit it ain't fair
But nigga,  you know
(it's the Ballad of A Dead Soulja)
(it's the Ballad of A Dead Soulja)