Ballad of a Dead Soulja

War scars, battlefield memories / Swore I saw the devil / In my empty glass of Hennesey
Yeah
Ballad of a dead soldier
This is the ballad of a dead soldier
This is the ballad of a dead soldier
Come play the ballad of a dead soldier

The plan
To take command of the whole family
Though underhanded
To be the man it was planned
All my road dogs
Official mob figures 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 grip on chrome nines
Niggaz get tossed up
War scars, battlefield memories
Swore I saw the devil 
In my empty glass of Hennesey
Talkin to a nigga on a tight leash
Screamin “Fuck the police” 
As I ride through the night streets
Lil’ 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
Promisin merciless retaliation
Nothin is colder
Close your eyes
Hear the ballad of a dead soldier

[Chorus] [6 Feet Deep (& 2Pac)]
Thug for life I will be
(This is the ballad of a dead soldier)
A life of crime I will lead
(Close your eyes
 Hear the ballad of a dead soldier)
If you play the game
You play to win
(This is the ballad of a dead soldier)
It’s a crazy world full of sin
(Close your eyes)

Completely lost
Revenge at all costs
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 homey what you see now?
A blind man and a dead body
I’m read’ to leave town
And get my cash though
Hook up with Kastro
Homey 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 (heh heh)
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 (eh eh)
The situation’s critical
Nothin is colder
Than hear the ballad of a dead soldier

[Chorus]

Be a coward
Put yo’ hands to the moon
When my glocks rang out
The niggaz came out BOOM
Who wanna see me in the challenge?
So merciless I’m terrifyin niggaz in my ballads
Do you feel me?
Capo or Capi-tan
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 tattooed tears
Another suicidal on the peer
Takin private planes
Tryin to survive the game
For all my homies that’ll never be alive again
All he promised us is death nigga
Take a breath come be the last one left nigga
It’s real now
Villain to fantasize
Ain’t nothin colder
Listen you can hear it
The ballad of a dead soldier

[Chorus]

This go out to Kato, Mental
All the niggaz that passed away
Mutulu, Geronimo.. Seyku..
All the down ass riders
All the niggaz that put it down, all the soldiers
All the niggaz that go through that day to day struggled
This is the ballad of a dead soldier!
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.. it’s the ballad of a dead soldier!
The police are so scared of us
All the feds they aware of us
They wanna see us dead
They got pictures of a nigga head, ballad of a dead soldier!
Tryin to see me in chains, shit
Them niggaz’ll never breathe again
Before they put me in a cell they’ll see me in hell
Cause it’s the ballad of a dead soldier!
Got my pistols cocked
Run the whole motherfuckin block, fuck the cops!
The police?  We run these streets nigga
Ain’t heard the ballad of a dead soldier!
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 soldier!