[Verse 1: A-1] One love until the planet Earth cease The atmosphere quits or the asteroid hits Or the nuclear war starts over random turf beefs And the bombs fall on us like autumn's first leaves Cuz when it's going down and people go underground Hope I'm posted on land on a sandy surf beach With a comfy a** chair, a meal I can share And my deuces chunked up in the air for world peace [Bridge: A-1] (hold on) You ain't gotta light a white candle if my heart seizes up from a drug I can't handle Or gets hits with one slug from out the handle, pro-peace Just tell the girls A-1 was a Thurl Beast [Hook: A-1] Still got it on deck like Christmas halls, and the touch screen looking like 6 missed calls Can I get up? You know I gotta get up Still walk around town with the dope, tight style, give a f** about tomorrow - live life right now You know I gotta get up. Think it's time to get up And we be saying, everyday, everday, live like it's the last one I'm switching lanes, switching lanes - put me in the fast one And get up. You know I gotta get up [Verse 2: A-1] (I mean it's like) I be at the mom and pop Burma noodle shop Eating rare foods, that you never heard or knew about Anywho, I'm trying to learn and do a lot so I gotta get mine You shouldn't be concerned what I do or not It's like to each his own, anybody treat you wrong Put em on blast like their a** on the speakerphone Any time we speaking on wax throw the speakers on Back to back, run through all the tracks throw your sneakers on Drink to your health, sink or swim You'll sink if you cannot think for yourself, I got 50 fins Hit the door, dont let your soul shrink for the wealth If you only thinking about yourself, though, think again Cuz if you sell-fish, then you tuna What this that I smell - ah naw n***as stink again I'm sitting on the brink to win They said keep your eyes on the prize Since then I never blinked again [Bridge 2: A-1] Get the visine, they be talking sh** But I be having dental hygience Clearing up my mind As if I had my mental dry cleaned Still we fight for our right - Spike lee How we living life? Do the right thing [Hook: A-1] Still got it on deck like Christmas halls, and the touch screen looking like 6 missed calls Can I get up? You know I gotta get up? Still walk around town with the dope, tight style, give a f** about tomorrow - live life right now You know I gotta get up. Think it's time to get up And we be saying, everyday everday, live like it's the last one I'm switching lanes, switching lanes - put me in the fast one And get up. You know I gotta get up [Verse 3: A-1] You know we gotta get up out of bed cuz we fed up Working for another man's bread til we dead is the set up So we switching up the plan, take a stand get your head up Out the clouds now before it gets stormy This is for my hip hop heads with heat rocks before me That spit the beatbox and wore reeboks before me You living on the edge or you drowning sh** I was slipping thru cracks, using my only wedge to get out And now I use a sledgehammer when keys lock the doors Last year they told me, please mop the floors Wipe the windows on the fridge and restock the 40s Now I'm trying to sort through three flocks of shorties Probably see my walking all around in uyour college town In the morning trying to get my wallet out the lost and found sh** gets crazy when we rock a crowd Nah, f** it bring the hook back and knock it loud [Hook: A-1] Still got it on deck like Christmas cards, and the touch screen looking like 6 missed calls Can I get up? You know I gotta get up? Still walk around town with the dope, tight style, give a f** about tomorrow - live life like now You know I gotta get up. Think it's time to get up And we be saying, everyday everday, live like it's the last one I'm switching lanes, switching lanes - put me in the fast one And get up. You know I gotta get up Last thing -You ain't gotta light a white candle if my heart seizes up from a drug I can't handle Or gets hits with one slug from out the handle, pro-peace Just tell the world A-1 was a Thurl Beast