[Hook: NOLA & (Nina Creque)] Life has too many tears, too many fears (Well) Too many cry, too many die (Why) Too many weep, too many sleep while they awake Too many claiming to be real but too many fake (Hmmm) Everybody answer this, would you lie for your life (Uh huh) Would you die for your life (Yeah) Would you k** for your life (Would you) Would you to keep it real in your life [NOLA] Now who's saving you if you ain't saving yourself (Well) In the f**ed up situations life's facing I see ya pacing Getting nervous, hard times at home a grown child Getting no relief on mama's shoulder Now what I advise is only cries from everybody else Except yourself, depending on your parents, where did you inherent All the poison thoughts All the tears through the years f**ing over peers To get on the next n***as dick Now how you figure life's a b**h Life gave you life, quiet scared to hold your breath Life gives you d**h, d**h gives you truth, truth sets you free Yes indeed, watch as I proceed to puff the weed And read the Vibe that's reading me I can't trust the fake thugs, stab ya like a knife Don't need them kind of people in my life On the real, I hope that y'all can feel what I'm stressing Depressed people bring depression [Hook} [NOLA] It's a thin line between the real and the fake It should be a crime if motherf**ers playa hate Anticipate that ho sh**, with that foe sh** Taking em' what you making em' that's bullsh**, turn legit Fo' I forget, where's the gat, who got my back The one who caught my slack before they pa** my crack Like Mr. Mike chats, where your love at, huh where your love at Now girl get that fake grin off your chin, you ain't my friend When I was down and low, had nowhere to go you was my foe Now all of a sudden everything is peaches and it's cream It isn't what it seems, I see you still worried about who f**ing me I might be f**ing myself, I might be f**ing your daddy Raping his pockets badly but who's to say it's your business If I ain't told ya, for those who want to kno who this is We be NOLA [Hook] [NOLA] I can't find a way out, blackout, lights out Why is it so dark in this motherf**ing house Why is this big bald daddy we sick such a b**h Like I won't deny, standing outside letting the rain camouflage The tears I cry, why does everybody wants to go to Heaven But nobody wants to f**ing die Why they try, you didn't beat the lies Sure to hits the skies, then you realize Letting this person know the longest leg between your thighs Pardon my frankness, by asking what you thanking If you think it's all a game, then ask yourself if you f**ed yourself Or the next man, oh who this dame, I maintain Ducked the smiles, false grinning My conscience got me on the outside looking in Like so-called friends, who pretend As darling, yes y'allings, when they was calling When I was balling but now I've falling [Hook: with Nina Creque ad-libs] to fade _________________________________________________________________