Learned Late

[Verse 1]

He learned how to shoot
Before he learned how to fight
Learned how to move off emotion
Before learning wrong from right

Learned how to survive
In a world that don’t teach
How to control what you feeling
When your back in the streets

He learned how to aim
Never learned how to pause
Never learned how to walk away
When pride get involved

Everybody told him “be a man”
Never told him how
Till the moment came too fast
And it’s quiet now

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[Core Lines]

He learned how to shoot
Before he learned how to fight
Now he headed up state
Facing life
He should’ve learned how to fight

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[Hook]

Some lessons cost freedom
Some choices cost years
Some moments last seconds
But echo through tears

If he could rewind time
He’d choose different nights
Some fights ain’t with hands
Some wars are inside

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[Verse 2]

He wasn’t born heartless
He adapted to pain
In a place where respect
Get confused with your name

Nobody taught him restraint
They just taught him to react
By the time he realized
There ain’t no taking it back

praying every night
Asking God “why me?”
Judge reading out numbers
Like time free 

He ain’t evil, he human
But the system don’t care
It don’t ask where you come from
Just how you got there

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[Bridge]

If someone would’ve showed him
How to breathe through the rage
How to put the pride down
And just walk away

Maybe freedom still his
Maybe life feel right
He learned how to shoot…
Just not how to fight

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[Final Hook / Outro]

Some lessons cost freedom
Some choices cost years
I write this for the ones
Who ain’t make it out here

If you hearing this now
And you still got time
Learn how to fight the demons
Before you cross that line

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