Track 12 on the album, “The Sharpest Blade”. Like he says at the end: This is real rap.

The song is about the struggles Viro was dealing with at the time: Losing his job, having no money, losing the ‘love of… Read More [Verse 1: Viro The Virus]

Yo

If you don't learn from mistakes, you're doomed to repeat 'em

I know you heard it before but I feel it's worth repeating

I deal with inner demons and have no idea when they're leaving

So I keep bobbing and weaving

It's a sad cycle and the facts of life

Distract you from the path that's right

Like bad advice from the deacon

In my apartment in the dark just drinking

With my wagon hitched to a tugboat that’s sinking

Got a toddler but only see her every weekend

Cause after two years my baby mom said I'm a heathen

Picked up and left one evening, like you're a nightmare

Not the man that I thought I saw when I'm dreaming

My mother gave up, weary from when people askin how I'm doing

She says stuff that she makes up

If this a bad dream than please help me wake up

Cause I've taking too much and had enough, so

[Hook: Viro The Virus]

(How can people be so heartless?)

Man all I know is

My life's like playing poker with the devil

Get dealt setbacks caus he got the deck stack so

(How can people be so heartless?)

Man I don't know but

I stand tall though my back's against the wall

A cold world is not cool at all...

[Verse 2: Viro The Virus]

Sometimes I have to lose my mind

Cause being sane is terrible when the pain's unbearable

And I ain't lying

Just tryin' to find a path to get back on track

Cause life's been kicking my ass like a hackey sack

It's difficult to seek enjoyment with all the people you love

You leave with dissapointment

And getting up seems pointless in the morning

If I can't afford to buy my daughters' diaper rash ointment

Got a warrant so the pigs be oink oinkin'

Can't carry ID, I know they'll stop me

I got a streak for losing

But everyday gotta keep it moving

Cause the world don't stop be

Girls be sweating the V, just want to carry my seeds

Still I've lost the love of my life twice

So something ain't right

And I need to fix it instead of bringing my liquor more ice

[Hook]

[Verse 3: Viro The Virus]

I really need to change my moves

So I'm thinking 'bout changing my tunes so I can regain my groove

Cause being a functional alcoholic or whatever you wanna call it lately ain't been cool

Lost my girl, lost my job, hurt my mom, then left all alone just like a jerk at the prom

Day to day I'm fighting with father time, but losing the war like it's Hiroshima vs. the bomb

I feel like I've been forsaken by satan

It's like a bad dream and I'm praying to be awaken

Private burdens make me feel my back aching

Feel my will to live being taken (wait)

But they say that quitters never win and winners never quit

So instead of slit my wrist I sat and wrote this

Cause music's therapeutic, and without it I would lose it

So I use it (get it)

And wonder...

[Hook]

[Outro: Viro The Virus]

Yeah, it's quite simple, really

Even the average Joe has problems of his own that you don't know

(here is two promiscuous words)

That's real rap, reality rap niggas, real talk