Scarface - I Seen A Man Die (Official Video) [Explicit]

Scarface - I Seen A Man Die (Official Video) [Explicit] from the album 'The Diary' (1994)

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Lyrics:
[Intro: Scarface + (friend)]
(So what you gonna do when you get outta here cat daddy?)
I don't know dawg. I'm just trying to live it one day at a time, ya know?
(I hear you talkin' man, live it one day at a time...)
(It ain't nothing but a thang though, bro)
Yeah I hear you fool...
Well let me get up outta here, my ride out here waitin' for me
(Alright cat daddy, take it easy baby)
You stay up fool
(Peace)

[Verse 1: Scarface]
He greets his father with his hands out
Rehabilitated slightly, but glad to be the man's child
The world is different since he's seen it last
Out of jail, been seven years and he's happy that he's free at last
All he had was his mother's letters
Now he's mobile and he's gotta make a change and make it for the better
But he's black so he's got one strike against him
And he's young, plus he came up in the system
But he's smart and he's finally making eighteen
And his goal's to get on top and try to stay clean
So he's calling up his homie who done came up
Livin' lavish, now they dealin' with the same stuff
And had that attitude that who he was was worth land
And with that fucked up attitude he killed his first man
Now it's different, he done did dirt
And realized killin' men meant comin' up but it still hurt
And can't nobody change this
It's 1994 and we up against the same shit
I never understood why
I could never see a man cry 'til I seen a man die

[Verse 2: Scarface]
Imagine life at it's full peak
Then imagine lying dead in the arms of your enemy
Imagine peace on this Earth when there's no grief
Imagine grief on this Earth when there's no peace
Everybody's got a different way of endin' it
And when your number comes for souls, then they send it in
Now your time has arrived for your final test
I see the fear in your eyes and hear your final breath
How much longer will it be 'til it's all done?
Total darkness at ease be at all one
I watch him die and when he dies let us celebrate
You took his life, but your memory you'll never take
You'll be headed to another place
And the life you used to live will reflect in your mother's face
I still gotta wonder why
I never seen a man cry 'til I seen a man die

[Verse 3: Scarface]
I hear you breathin' but your heart no longer sounds strong
But you kinda scared of dying so you hold on
And you keep on blacking out and your pulse is low
Stop trying to fight the reaper, just relax and let it go
Because there's no way you can fight it though you'll still try
And you can try it 'til you fight it but you'll still die
Your spirits leave your body and your mind clears
The rigor mortis starts to set, now you outta here
You start your journey into outer space
You see yourself in the light but you're still feeling outta place
So you standing in the tunnel of eternal life
And you see the ones you never learn to love in life
Make the choice, let it go if you can back it up
If you ain't at peace with God you need to patch it up
But if you ready, close your eyes and we can set it free
Here lies a man not scared to die, may he rest in peace
I still got to wonder why
I never seen a man cry 'til I seen that man die

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[blackflagsnroses]

“You’ll be headed to another place, and the life you used to live will reflect in your mother’s face” still the coldest bar in rap history. Heavier than heavy metal

[CDOGATL]

Scarface shut it down with his Tiny Desk performance. One of the greatest to ever do it!!

[SoldbySharone]

My fiance died in a car crash 2 weeks before our wedding in 1993... we were both so young.... then 1994 came and this song came out... it was hard to listen to at first... I changed the radio every time it came on... then one day I let it play and I let the tears flow harder than ever... Now it's one of my favorite songs... I still get chills today when I here it and think of those dark days in the 90s.

[nynestar]

“Imagine peace on this earth and there’s no grief, imagine grief on this earth and there’s no peace” 🔥

[noelflores]

Lost my brother. We used to ride in his Cadillac and jam to this. Now I ride alone. I miss you G

[mrwang]

This song makes people feel things. That's what makes music real.

[owensjamar]

Everytime I listen to this song I gotta run it back one of the best songs in rap history

[deronlnix]

This man does not simply rhyme. He paints vivid illustrations with words…

[miapdx]

"Imagine peace on this earth with no grief.
Now imagine grief with no peace."

[Skibbidypat]

It’s no joke seeing a man or woman take their last breath. Life is so damn short, live every day like it’s your last

[SemiDivineOne]

I remember being 14 when this album dropped. I lost one of my closest homes that summer. Washing the blood off my hands and face in the upstairs bathroom of my childhood home. 14 is too young to ever go through something like that. He caught a bullet to the chest while two of us walked home from park. We just got caught between drive-by and it's target. Nothing was ever the same after that.

This song is synonymous with my understanding of death. Looking back it, was something that kinda helped me process it all but goddamn, 25 years later at 9:03 pm, on 6/13/21, I'm driving back home from my cabin and "random' strikes again. Instantly transported back to them days and as the sun sets here, casting its orange and crimson blanketed hue across the sky, holding the small puffy clouds in place, I've got tears absolutely ripping down my face.

Time goes on and heals most wounds but some are so deep that they never go away. They scar and leave their mark, sometimes still painful but enough to go on. Music is literally the most powerful magic humans have figured out thus for.

[speed]

This is one of the best written rap songs every released.

[cheapskatedamack]

If You Ain't At Peace With God You Need To Patch It Up ✊🏾💯....tears 2023. Thank you Tiny Desk

[balogunpaul]

Scarface is not just a rapper but a professor of phylosophy. His music is beyond this realm

[rosalindarogers]

26years later and this song still gives me the chills

[codimo]

Who’s back to watch after the tiny desk concert!!?? 🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿

[sevinatenine]

TODAY'S GENERATION WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND HOW DOPE HIP HOP WAS IN THE 1990'S.✌✌✌✌✌

[minjinx]

“If you ain’t peace with God, you need to patch it up.” A bar that speaks to your spirit where you know he’s telling the truth whether you believe or not. A video that truly scared the heck outta many.

[SickendArrow]

"Imagine life at it’s full peak
Then imagine lying dead in the arms of your enemy
Imagine peace on this Earth when there’s no grief
Imagine grief on this Earth when there’s no peace.”

[earnestwalker]

Thirty years later and it's still one of the realest messages you'll ever hear 💯🔥💪🏾