🎵 The Predator You Trust
[Intro – Spoken over a haunting piano loop]
Yeah…
They say the ones that hurt you most,
Ain’t the enemies in the alley…
It’s the ones sittin’ at your dinner table.
Vinny… I still remember.
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[Verse 1]
Vinny had that restless heat, like the block in July,
Eyes wild like he’d seen Heaven and Hell in the same sky,
Even when the world was quiet, you could hear that storm,
Somethin’ broke in his soul way before he was born.
Said it started with his uncle — man, that cut me deep,
The same arms that should’ve held him put him down in the streets,
Told me over coffee, hands shakin’ with a smoke,
Voice low, eyes far, like the past still spoke.
“I jumped off Market Street Bridge when I was fourteen,”
That pain hit me harder than anything I’d seen,
Said, “I wasn’t supposed to make it, but I washed to the shore,
And I been drownin’ in my head ever since that war.”
[Hook – Sung / Dre-style hook girl voice layered]
(Female Vocal)
The predator you trust… cuts the deepest wound,
Leaves you bleedin’ in a room where no one hears the truth.
The predator you trust… takes your light away,
And you never see the sun the same way again.
(Pac-style adlibs)
Yeah…
Family turn snake… can’t heal from that.
Ain’t no comin’ back from that scar… nah.
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[Verse 2]
Vinny never told me the full truth — didn’t need to,
I saw it in the glass of his eyes when the demons would creep through,
Coke bags, cold nights, county cells, padded rooms,
Tryna burn out the memory like smoke in a tomb.
Life turned into a loop, same pain, replay,
Groundhog Day with a razor blade and decay,
Trust was dead, and his hope was in a coma,
Every night, fightin’ shadows that don’t show up on the corner.
See, when the monster’s in your bloodline, the game’s rigged from birth,
Makes you question your own worth, makes you question the Earth,
How the hell you heal from betrayal that raw?
When the law ain’t the law, and the man ain’t the law?
[Hook – Female Vocal & Pac-style Adlibs]
The predator you trust… cuts the deepest wound,
Leaves you bleedin’ in a room where no one hears the truth.
The predator you trust… takes your light away,
And you never see the sun the same way again.
(Pac adlibs)
Yeah, trust ain’t somethin’ you get back, homie…
Once it’s gone, it’s gone…
[Verse 3 – Final Blow]
Some scars don’t fade, they just hide under sleeves,
Some pain don’t leave, it just learns how to breathe,
Vinny walked with a limp in his soul, you could see it,
The streets gave him band-aids but never could heal it.
I pray for the kids that’s sleepin’ in the lion’s den,
Thinkin’ that the lion is their blood, is their friend,
But behind closed door
[Violin Solo]
[Final Chorus]
[Chorus]
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