[Intro: DJ Khaled]
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Keep your circle tight
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Trust no one, nobody
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[Verse 1: Scarface]
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Gotta be careful who you trusting
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Be aware of your surrounding when you hustling
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Them niggas smiling at you ain't your friends, dawg
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All the real ones are dead or in the pen y'all
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You fuck with dude, he your day one
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Almost had it all then the day comes
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When they walking through your house with the strap out
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Pointing at your head, got the bread then you black out
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Bright lights down the hallways
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Left his best friend for dead for the small wage
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They say that every doors got a day coming
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It's like he seen a ghost but he ain't say nothing
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Eyes wide shut like you looking at me
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Window pain to the soul say nigga's happy
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But the pictures ain't say them words and we dry stomach
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The homie didn't keep it one hundred
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The cops doing roundups, say they got a suspect
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Finally got a name now, I'm still thinkin fuck that
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For money, niggas murder what they close to
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Entire families is mother fuckin' [?]
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Smoke you, was it worth what the life was?
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Just prepared for the payback because it strikes cuz
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Was it worth what that life was?
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Prepare for the payback when it strikes cuz
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[Bridge: John Legend]
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When you need it the most ain't no one ever around
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Cold world, cold world
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[Verse 2: Jadakiss]
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The pain's unbearable, remains unwearable
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He fuck around jump of a building if you dare him to
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The greats they done already killed him, who you compare him to
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Figure out what he said will take a year or two
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Family over everything, skills over politics
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He don't need the accolades as long as you acknowledge it
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Just playing the hand you was dealt, no aces
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Betrayal is worse than death in most cases
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The world is filled with hypocrites, this so racist
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Multiple shots to the face, No chasers
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Mad cause you blew up quick and you excited
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Your man that you grew up with get you indicted
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This was your nigga, yo
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For him you let the trigger go
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Found out at the trial they got audio and video
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Shit don't always happen how you plan it
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Get jammed up and really find out who your fam is
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You could feel the picture, you don't need to see the canvas
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That nigga Jay'll a Hawk you, he don't even play for Kansas
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You know when it's someone you love the hurt's pure
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You front tryna hold it in, it hurts more
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He was right there back-to-back with me, my first war
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Even had a crack spot together, the first floor
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Used to [?] then meet him right by the first door
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That was 'prolly a year before I went on my first tour
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Friendship was worth more than a couple of ounces
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He was 'sposed to be with me arguing with the bouncers
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Instead you ended up somewhere far in the mountains
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Talking 'about what we was doing, what we was counting
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None but old pictures of old sixes
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Old BM's with the kids, old snitches
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Two sides, both wishes
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Karma is the sister of life, they both bitches
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[Bridge: Anthony Hamilton]
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See there's a story in my life
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There's a story in my pain
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There's a story in my tears
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There's a story in me
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[Verse 3: Meek Mill]
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Yeah, for life
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Lord forgive me for my sins, I was chasin' ends
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And I'm into makin' money, I ain't in to making friends
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Cause these niggas rattin', I ain't finna take a chance
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Homie said he 'bout that action they grabbin' me take the stand
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Say loyalty make a man, got a homie and he told
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I don't even shake his hand, I don't even crack a smile
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Knew him since a child, man this game so foul
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But niggas made vows to a code I never break
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Ridin' in the heavy weight
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Thirty-six O's in the bird, call it feather weight
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Never on time, when I show up I be ready late
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Niggas got fat while we starved they already ate
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And I'm trying to get full, masks on clips full
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If he got the money we attack him like a pitbull
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We sellin' soft, we sellin' hard like it's a brick store
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On my dick, nigga, thought that's what your bitch for
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[Bridge: Akon]
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My pain ain't never been told
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All the success that I'm suffering from
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Came from this knowledge I sold
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My family fucks with me
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And fought the enemy that stood in my way
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That's why I don't trust nobody
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And I doubt you'll ever see that day
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'Fore I surrender to you, surrender to you
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Surrender to you, surrender to you
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Which I will never do
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[Bridge: John Legend & Anthony Hamilton]
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Cause when you need it the most ain't no one ever around (nobody's around)
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Cold world, cold world (yes it is)
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And the ones that you keep close will take you down (only take you down)
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Cold world, a cold cold world
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[Hook: Akon x2]
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'Fore I surrender to you, surrender to you
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Surrender to you, surrender to you
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Which I will never do
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[Bridge: Anthony Hamilton & John Legend]
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See there's a story in my life (Surrender)
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There's a story in my pain (Surrender)
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There's a story in my tears (Surrender)
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There's a story in me (I won't Surrender)
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Never Surrender
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| DJ Khaled |
