Mase - Gotta Survive lyrics

I don't regret nothing that I have ever done At this point I don't owe nobody an explanation Man, they love you when you up Kick you when you down Look around, VH1 man, where are they down Life is amusing, nobody like to see you cruising But everybody like to see you losing So I stop despise, on top of lies And if it prophesized I'll be ostracized One day, I lost my rodium on the day I hit the podium Now I'm back on top and salty like sodium A gift to this world man, wrap me with a ribbon Why do you look for a dead among the living Some thought I was crazy, some thought I was dissing Some said I was lazy, some said I was different I was so loaded, that everybody floated But once I got the notice then I got focused And then I saw they motive, so everybody rode it So I did the way wrote it and live it the way I quote it (come On) Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me When it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me When I'm down at the back, just keep it real Gotta survive, gotta survive Gotta Survive in this life that's being given to me So I try and I try to be all I can be When it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me Gotta survive, gotta survive Hold up, trying to tell me what I'm not Pull up in the 'Bach, not I'm all of the sudden hot Now they want to stop just to look at what I got Thought they want my home man, left me out to rot So I had to make it on my own, take it on my own I wanted out the hood I had to 'scape it on my own Believe me now, it's easy now 'Cause everybody see me now and I'm on TV now But it started out with low budget Then I took it around the world the folks love it In the beginning man, my life it was so rugged But now I shine like a gold nugget, cause I made the most of it I know how you feeling man, I was weary Some days I used to sit there, my eyes all teary Thinking to myself, do anybody hear me Now I know, you making it out is not a theory (come on) Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me When it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me When I'm down at the back, just keep it real Gotta survive, gotta survive Gotta Survive in this life that's being given to me So I try and I try to be all I can be When it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me Gotta survive, gotta survive I've been laughed at, talked about, ridiculed But I got a Bentley and I'm still not a bitter dude And you know it's not coincidence, that me and you is not so intimate I can't fake, I don't shake, I don't break I don't lose, I don't use, I don't groove I never lacked and I'm never going back I'm nothing you ever sawd of I'm telling you that I'm immortal Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me When it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me When I'm down at the back, just keep it real Gotta survive, gotta survive Gotta Survive in this life that's being given to me So I try and I try to be all I can be When it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me Gotta survive, gotta survive Got to, got to survive Keep your head held high Got to, got to survive Keep your head to the sky Got to, got to survive We can make it if we try Got to, got to survive Gotta survive, gotta survive You know there is nothing in this world that could separate me From what I believe, from what I've achieved All of this is because of him And I'm telling you now, as much as you all don't want to hear this I could do nothing to myself It's all through him It's all through him So all around the world You don't even know success until you know him And him is Jesus, Jesus