[Chorus: Krayzie Bone]
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You don't want to live this life
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No, this life, it's not nice
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You don't want to live this life
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No, this life, it's not nice
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[Layzie Bone]
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Nigga stop! (What?) Hold on, before you jump and just listen
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Take a second to stradle the fence
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Let me tell you about what you been missin
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Ain't a damn thang (damn thang) are you thinkin the grass is greener?
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Like a nigga just lost his first love, singin "Have you seen her?"
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Tossin high beams, chasin pipe dreams
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lookin for shit that really ain't there
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I mean it is what you make it my nigga, you better just stay on your square
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Down here, killers and theives, pimps and pushers is on the prowl
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If they find you out of your element, they'll pick you out of the crowd
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Thang to do is face the music, take a stand for yo' position
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Nigga get up, better stand up, man up in yo' position
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Never have no mercy for them niggaz that's not applyin theyself
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And shit ain't perfect so you gotta make it work for yo'self
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You catch them coward niggaz runnin, duckin, lookin for help
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But the realist niggaz in the game, play the cards they was dealt
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Me, myself, I got some issues; I ain't dealin with yours
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Everybody got they own drama, rich or they poor
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[Chorus a€“ repeat 2X]
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[Krayzie Bone]
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They gave me the 25 with the L, I'm in my jail cell
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It feel like a movie, I'm gettin so woozy from the stale smell
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Bailin, breathin Hell's air
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My first day here - I had to get down with a nigga
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that thought I was some kinda faggot, I had to show him no hoes stay here
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Havin to die, it is my main fear
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Why did I have to kill that man? I should've never let my anger build
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Now my state of awareness keeps me wishin I was thinkin
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Should have reason I didn't really mean to stop the boy from breathin
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I was awake last night, real late last night
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Cause I heard some nigga screamin, gettin raped last night
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I did the crime, but I wasn't thinkin about me doin the time
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These 6-by-9's, is about to make me lose my mind
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Trapped in these closed walls - ain't had no conversation
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with my family on the outside cause they won't except my phone calls
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After a couple of years of sheddin tears, my heart is stone hard
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Believe I'm ready for war and on guard
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[Chorus a€“ repeat 2X]
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[Wish Bone]
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I've been shot, grew up without my pops
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In the hood round block seen niggaz shot
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Got rid of them thangs, tryin to chase them knots
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Cause I had to have it, knew niggaz that's lookin for where my stash at
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Watchin my back, puttin up ready for niggaz that wanna check that
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And I can't keep it kind, if you puttin in work
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and your dreams is just like mine
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Wake up in cold sweats, regrets about what I thought was lies
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I can see me not doin that
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But I did it, we live it, the hood shows you no slack
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And believe it, there's no, no-no, comin back
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Make money, think you're on that
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Just ridin through the hood, you might have to push your wig back
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Get the money man, the root of all evil
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They say "Take it home man," but damn I gotta watch my people
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You'll be high, cause one us lay there, not just him
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But damn, everybody he ran with
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They all gettin money man, money man
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Right here (right here) - damn, see how life is
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[Chorus a€“ repeat 2X]
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This Life
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| Bone Thugs-N-Harmony |
