Bowling for Liberty
Life is complicated i've killed people
Smuggled people sold people
Perhaps here, things will be different
My days of youth were in the People's Army
And I paid my dues under a legal mafia
The news could hardly cover Yugoslavia
Without looking down on us
Dudes surviving here
The warzone was a training ground
For the land of the free, never lay me down
But the land isn't free, better pay me now
'Cause you don't wanna see me when
I throw my weight around
I never wait around, or set a date and count
No hype like when the game announced
Then when I came around
They would be saying aloud
That I didn't belong, that I was lame
Get out
But I've always done what I ain't allowed
You think a crowd of haters
Would dissuade me now?
You've only made me welcome
To change the outcome
I take an ounce and then upgrade to pounds
Uh
Foreign places, feel faceless
Starting over, leave no traces
I've seen things you couldn't imagine
Death of innocent women and children
Family will be there for each other
It gave me a new beginning
All was against me, but I'm set free
New home, Liberty City
Came to a strange land
Alien with a game plan
To become a self made made man
Power is ambidextrous, it'll change hands
Time is money and every dollar is a
Grain of sand slipping into my wallet
How do I plead? It's simple, Your Honour
I'm innocent of everything but
Pimping your momma
Depart from the dock and I
Start from the bottom
Like slaves that were traded
And stopped picking cotton
Raise up and raze the
Construction that's stopping them
Burn, Nat Turner and Spartacus, chopping up
And while you're sat in the park, chatting
I'm carjacking ambulances
Having a laugh when I'm crashing them
No you can't have it back
I'm lacking the heart
Packing an actual arsenal in back
Of my fire truck
And I partook in every felony
That you could write up
I push crime numbers in the city right up
The boldest agent couldn't solve the case
Until they're old and grey
By then I've rolled away
I'm in a stolen Sabre, Feds are all in chase
But let me just drop by for a bowling date
Yay! Take a hike down memory lane
I got a strike looking like
I'm ahead of the game, uh
Foreign places, feel faceless
Starting over, leave no traces
I've seen things you couldn't imagine
Death of innocent women and children
Family will be there for each other
It gave me a new beginning
All was against me, but I'm set free
New home, Liberty City
Startred alone in the dark with a hope
Swimming with the loan sharks in the open
I keep afloat
Heart open to omens that I'll see
A sign any moment, my cousin Roman
Bellic and me, we'll make a hell of a team
Together we'll leap to the American Dream
But as I climb the wall with a goal:
Ascend higher
Decline and fall of the Roman Empire
Living in broker broke, amid the roaches
Roman roads are nowhere close to as
Robust as I'd hoped for
So I carve my own path
Pull up the weeds in the garden, mown grass
Remodel the landscape in my image
The minute hand's ticking 'till
The time I finish
Rome wasn't built overnight, in five minutes
But have a look what I've
Done with the place, nice, innit?
Never turn your back
I might stick a knife in it
This is the kind of life advice I'm giving
'Cause this is the kind of
Life that I'm living
Never let it inhibit my drive or my mission
Never set a limit
Still I get it did and done
Inside the time given
I ice you dry like nitrogen
I hide in plain sight, defy your night vision
Avant-garde, make caviar rise
From fried chicken
Foreign places, feel faceless
Starting over, leave no traces
I've seen things you couldn't imagine
Death of innocent women and children
Family will be there for each other
It gave me a new beginning
All was against me, but I'm set free
New home, Liberty City