(x2) Every time I wanna leave, I just can't go away These streets keep callin' my name Every time I wanna leave, I just can't go away I can't never leave da game No matter how many time I go to jail I can't never leave da game No many how many times I f** up I can't never leave da game Grow up poor, poorer than most No papa to show me the roast So my animal instinct on me go for the dough A young n***a started packing toast for the loaf Ride another and another and a sister and a brother Even robbed a n***a that I thought was undercover for a whole block of bu*ter Crack and snack on my mamma dope, before my mamma woke Watch the dreamin' on me beain' on a higher road It was downhill from now It was downtown chills and cold courtroom air Every year I say I'm fin to change But every year still the same, ice cold, water still feel my vein I can't leave the game, born in it, sworn in it, swerving in it, born for it Every time I wanna leave, I just can't go away These streets keep callin' my name Every time I wanna leave, I just can't go away I can't never leave da game No matter how many n***as doubt me I can't leave the game No matter who many cops get pull on my wrist I can't leave the game Never leave the game Pay for my broken home, broken alone Made the best outta what I had Gun, glove and mask So deep in the game, I couldn't leave if I try Even if I quit, keep scream in quad The sh** is all I know, this all I ever knew Started from the bottom then I roused a love of two Cars got fancy, b**hes did too Ain't got lover n***a, wishin' that was you But they don't know the struggle, triple triose and the pain They don't see the trouble, just the flose and the fame They don't see them n***as pointed fingers for the blame The bodies, the shadies, the blood, the stains I can't leave the game, I'm born in it, sworn in it Sworviv' in the forn in it Every time I wanna leave, I just can't go away These streets keep callin' my name Every time I wanna leave, I just can't go away I can't never leave da game No matter how many time I go to jail I can't never leave da game No many how many times I f** up I can't never leave da game Money in the power, keep on callin' me Plus the p**y and the powder make it hard to sleep Caally flawin' in my chest make it hard to breath And all let's get by and make it hard to leave I live for the stage, the mics and the lights I'm so tired of cops and gettin' read my rights With my first solo did the run, my advance We spend on the loyal, bail on the gun Never givin' the chance, always over look Never givin' the glance so I took it like a cook, like I should Like I 'pose to, now I had it hard sink when I flow to I can't leave the game I was born in it, sworn in it Every time I wanna leave, I just can't go away These streets keep callin' my name Every time I wanna leave, I just can't go away I can't never leave da game No matter how many time I go to jail I can't never leave da game No many how many times I f** up I can't never leave da game