[Hook: Jaheim] Now Lord you know, just how hard I try To live my life and get it right Trying to see some light or even better Way over way a new day, someday Yesterday was filled with sorrow but tomorrow It gets better I know, tell you, I know [Verse 1: Cam'ron] With my muscle you'll be dazzled, but hustlin's a ha**le Percocet, Demerol, capsules of Paxil Cops wanna cuff you, n***as wanna clap you b**hes might burn you; they runnin' with that clap too But the monster made it Do it for those incarcerated, who had it confiscated Hate it when they take powder Upstate he take showers Baby moms on Greyhound for 8 hours See her man face-to-face through the gla** On the phone. 10 years he got, chasin' that cash Cocaine, he had that game in a smash Felt like the Towers when the planes went on crash It wasn't 9-11, but it was 9-1-1 Gave him 9 plus 1, dropped a dime on dun I told him get his 9 and run Turned himself in, I had to find that dumb [Hook: Jaheim] Now Lord you know, just how hard I try To live my life and get it right Trying to see some light or even better Way over way a new day, someday Yesterday was filled with sorrow but tomorrow It gets better I know, tell you, I know [Verse 2: Cam'ron] Aiyyo, them n***as from the three two, said I can't breeze through The 40 if I cop bottles, we can't believe you Me who? Please boo. Landin' in that G2 Same color as beef stew. Favorite letters: G Q That's me, true, peach/blue. Hebrew Lawyer on my side keep me out of jail the fees stew. Steep? whoo! But it might lead to that R2D2, the mobsters creep through We the new PE. sh**tin, pee-ew To the hood: y'all don't need me, I need you Cause my mission's insane, you couldn't vision the pain Always a snitch in the game. What you want: prison or fame? Either one, dun, long as my digits the same He lookin' frigid, dig it, make sure them digits get changed Cause I can't be in Hell's cell, shout out to Mel Mel Cash and Hell Rell. Zeek doin' 3, he even fell, hell He comin' home on '07 and 12 cells Cause you must have known, I can't trust the phones For the dough you'll be like Doe, stuck at home [Hook: Jaheim] Now Lord you know, just how hard I try To live my life and get it right Trying to see some light or even better Way over way a new day, someday Yesterday was filled with sorrow but tomorrow It gets better I know, tell you, I know [Verse 3: Cam'ron] Nowadays dog, they raid up in the ballparks Blaze 'em when they cross sharks We raiders of the lost ark I'm like a ballplayer, shake up and cross narcs They get mad when I lay up in the Porsche Box More props. R.I.P., my poor pops Can't see his son shine like the Four Tops My antennas will block the scanners I got blammas, you'll drop your hammers Lawyers to watch lawyers, cameras to watch cameras n***as to watch b**hes, Nana to watch Grandma In pajamas I snuck out to watch Santa Now look at k**a, you gon' watch Santana [Hook: Jaheim] Now Lord you know, just how hard I try To live my life and get it right Trying to see some light or even better Way over way a new day, someday Yesterday was filled with sorrow but tomorrow It gets better I know, tell you, I know [Verse 4: Juelz Santana] Now I was born by the river in a little tent Little gate, little fence - I climbed over Little scrapes, little dents - I got over That was just the beginning it's not over It's been a long time comin' Cam It's been a long time riding and a long time running, man sh** done changed since The Wop and The Running Man Since Nino, G-Money, The Carter, and the Duh-Duh Man It's no longer a New Jack City It's "cop fast and move that quickly" or cops crash Spent a long time coming up this road And I ain't talking rap, man, I'm coming up this road I'm talking crack, man and coming up with O's I'm coming up with halves and coming up with wholes sh** got hectic had to come up with my hoes They would boof it and go, I receive it move it and roll I was comin' from the Q, Zeek was comin' from the O Jim chose to give his work to smash in dough We was all on the paper-run Yeah, waiting for a change to come Now look: the change has come The 7-Pick Up, Yukon, the Range is come The day has come, Dipset remains the ones Most hated by you other motherf**as In this game, we remain, it's a shame cuz