Music Monday: Lauryn Hill "The World is a Hustle" + new poem
The World is a Hustle by Shavon Meyers
I guess we're gonna fake it till we make it
The world is a hustle
So you better try to shake it
But when the dice are loaded
How can you ever win?
How can you get over
Without gambling in sin?
The world is hustle
And we’re all losing the game
Chasing after fame
But she never stays the same
She’s sitting sideways
While you got both hands on the wheel
Trying to follow the rules
But the house always wins
The world is hustle
And it’s not playing fair
Not showing its cards
And it’s holding two pair
It takes too much
And it never gives back
Watch your step
You’ll surely fall through the cracks
And when you fall
There’s a hell below
And If there’s hell below
We’re all gonna go
Because we’re all cheating life
Avoiding its rules
Hustling around the hustle
Making pacts with worldly fools
Who’ve traveled the universe
From the comfort of their block
Hustled by the world
Losing the game to the clock
Afraid to take flight
Afraid to live life
Afraid to challenge the rules
Afraid to roll the dice
Afraid to play this game
This game called life
Against the biggest player in the game
A player called Life
The world is a hustle-r



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