Yeah, yeah, yeah lifetime A lifetime, yeah, yeah Whoa, I got a story look... [Max Minelli] It goes, too many enemies, not enough friends Too many people struggling k**ing me, not enough ends Where do we go from here, my stormy night done disconnected my life It felt like they disconnected me from my life I'm making plans but they crumble, these days it's hard to stay humble When dope done turned my neighborhood to a jungle And many n***as stumble, f**ing the thin line I ain't no k**a but look I will to defend mine, then shine In time I'mma get it right, I'm respecting my life I'm grabbing, holding, kissing, hugging it tight Hoping I'll make it through the rest of the year Cause I don't what was worser the World Trade, or the d**h of a leader It's like the message is clear, I'm still here, God must got a plan So I keep holding back the rest of my tears I don't know if he testing my fate, or testing my fears I just respect it as the blessing it is, cause a blessing it is aiight [Hook: Russell Lee & Rasheed] Ooooh-oooh-ooh-ooh-ooh I done lost a lot of friends in my lifetime Ooooh-oooh-ooh-ooh-ooh I done shed a lot of tears in my lifetime Ooooh-oooh-ooh-ooh-ooh I done felt a lot of pain in my lifetime Ooooh-oooh-ooh-ooh-ooh But I'mma make it through the rain in my lifetime [Baby Beesh] Now I'm just saying though making my music, it's for my money I'm just saying though, pulling the zags within the dummy I'm just saying though, some thangs that'll make you laugh'll make you cry
That's how it goes partna, why ask why I'm off promethozyne, sticky green, off the herb soldemzyne In between all around, they can't stop the underground Baby Beesh off the leash, the Lone Star governer With Happy P rocking Northern and the Southerner [Low-G] And if I follow the sun, it took me right back to the huntho What I love the most, my streets, my life and my music And I started thinking, about the words he once told Is he coming, is he goes only God knows So f** that, I ain't gone quit till my last stage So if I live by it, I'mma die by it I got to survive living each stage in my hard life Yeah, you know [Hook] [Grimm] So many years out of town, could of been with the fam But if I done stopped back then, I wouldn't be where I am All the vans, flashing cans, grabbing hands at them shows to do Can't get too close to you, what am I suppose to do Those of you, that all been thinking of the good life Should try, to be attracted with the hood life Good bye, two of the things you take for granted Like a night with all your family without a psycho fanatic [SPM] I'm so use to the streets, I feel at home in the hood I just couldn't leave, I'm forever Hillwood f** luxurious, but everyday a stupid b**h See me and say, I don't give a f** who he is I'm so new to this, living like Julious I'm known for cruising whips, and doing boys the ugliest In this game there's only two things I need My nuts and my gun, hold up that's three [Hook]