[00:06.87]Life, what is it for real? I don't know.
[00:11.89]Yo It's like hate taking over the whole world,
[00:14.21]What is it over?
[00:15.61]Suicide man that's the devil trying to control us,
[00:17.87]They told us
[00:18.63]But we didnt notice
[00:19.57]The pain was sittin on they shoulders
[00:20.72]The world is just to polar
[00:22.03]They'd rather live in the solar
[00:23.17]System got us hopeless, and focused on foreclosures
[00:25.13]Wake up and smell the folgers
[00:27.27]Obama bring home the soldiers
[00:28.43]Osama, you owe us, the 9 11 was bogus
[00:30.63]Now we right back at em
[00:31.84]Say the world is our motive come on.
[00:35.93]Hey wake up early in the streets of the block,
[00:39.14]Streets of the block.
[00:41.54]He posted up on the corner like a soldier
[00:43.47]In the drill but he wouldn't stop
[00:46.18]Living life in the battlefield, battlefield
[00:51.30]Trying to survive every day and every night,
[00:54.28]It's the same deal
[00:56.95]Lifes strange (Lifes strange)
[00:58.22]Times change (Times change)
[00:59.25]But karma always finds the way
[01:01.85]Stay strong (Stay strong)
[01:03.09]Hold on (Hold on)
[01:04.42]Don't let all your dreams fade away
[01:07.02]Yeah life can beat you down
[01:09.44]What goes it comes around
[01:11.97]It's not how you hit the ground
[01:13.97]It's how fast you get back up
[01:16.33]And go,keep going
[01:19.33]Sometimes it feels like I'm giving my life away
[01:21.65]It gets hard, and harder
[01:24.45]Happiness is worth the wait
[01:26.74]Cause on my own is a better way!
[01:31.61]Cause on my own is a better way!
[01:38.51]A lot of mothers they just don't understand
[01:40.48](They just don't understand)
[01:42.38]They think we're hard on our sons
[01:44.35]But we gotta teach our boys how to be A man
[01:47.46]They only know when they walk out the door
[01:50.58](When they walk out the door)
[01:53.00]See we can show em how to fire,
[01:54.62]But they gotta teach themselves how to reload
[01:57.63]Cause unenployment is harder than its ever been
[02:00.27]Sometimes it feels like i cant win
[02:02.95]And even through all the rules keep changing
[02:05.44]I'm stronger now than I was when I came in
[02:08.62]Yeah life can beat you down
[02:10.71]What goes it comes around
[02:13.26]It's not how you hit the ground
[02:15.25]It's how fast you get back up
[02:17.58]And go, keep going
[02:20.66]Sometimes it feels like I'm giving my life away
[02:22.95]It gets hard, and harder
[02:25.74]Happiness is worth the wait
[02:28.11]Cause on my own is a better way!
[02:32.96]Cause on my own is a better way!
[02:38.79]Hey Hey going through the back streets
[02:40.52]Like we got beef
[02:41.47]Carnival for carnivores with the sharp teeth
[02:43.86]They animalistic that's why we call the cops beast
[02:46.33]We're on the hunt
[02:47.62]Cause they're hungry for the dark meat
[02:49.13]I'm rapping to my heart beat
[02:50.72]Brain is the base
[02:51.92]My heart is the drum,
[02:53.26]Give the drum some
[02:54.26]Promise of a better life is all I got to give
[02:56.64]I ain't just trying to survive, I'm trying to live
[02:59.37]Cause all I want is a better way, Hey
[03:05.13]If you're not prepared the world can be so cold
[03:09.85]All that you can do is your best and just hope
[03:14.21]In time the truth will show
[03:17.18]Just stick to what you know
[03:19.71]Get a grip on something real and never let it go
[03:24.97]And go, keep going
[03:27.14]Sometimes it feels like I'm giving my life away
[03:29.22]And it gets hard, and harder
[03:32.16]Happiness is worth the wait
[03:34.20]Cause all I want is A better day
[03:39.24]Cause all I want is A better way
[03:45.37]Go! Keep going
[03:47.47]Sometimes it feels like I'm giving my life away
[03:49.61]And it gets hard, and harder
[03:52.50]Happiness is worth the wait
[03:54.68]Cause all I want is A better day
[03:59.63]Cause all I want is A better way