Dear As we down here, struggle for as as we know In search of a paradise to (my ni**a Johnny J) Dreams are dreams, and reality seems to be the place to go The only for us I know, try to the best of bad situations Seems to be my story Ain't no glory in pain, a soldier's in vain And can't live this life for me a ride y'all, a long hard ride
Somebody break me I'm dreamin, I started as a seed the Swimmin upstream, in the womb while screamin on the top, was my pops, my screamin stop From a single drop, this is what got Not to my peoples but my poppa was a loser Only plan he had for momma was to her and abuse her as a little seed, I could see his plan for me Stranded on welfare, another broken Now what was I to be, a product of heated pa*sion Momma got pregnant, and poppa got a of a*s how it began, nobody gave a f**k about me Pistol in my hand, cruel world can do without me How can I Got me askin white Jesus will a ni**a live or die, cause the can't see us in the dark clouds of the projects, ain't no sunshine No sunny days and we play sometimes everybody's sleepin I open my window jump to the streets and get to I can live or die, I get some money 'fore I'm gone I'm only 19, I'm tryin to on my own on the spot where everybody and they pops to slang rocks I'd rather go to college, but is where the game stops Don't get it wrong cause it's on, from dusk to dawn You can buy glocks or a herringbone You can ask my man Ishmael Keep my nine heated all the time this is how we Meet up at the cemetary then get smoked out, pa*s the weed Hennessey'll keep me keyed ni**a Everywhere I go ni**az at me, "Keep it real G" And my reply til kill me Act up if you feel me, I was not to make it but I did The of a ghetto kid, still I rise
Still I (still I) I (I rise) Please me to the sky (the sky) And if (and if) I die (I die) I want you to cry
[Hussein I stay as always Runnin ya bricks with blitz, through ya hallways crews like two's, ni**a all day Secrets of war me for the worst A life that's full of cabbage or a life that's in a hearse But now my dreams it seeems though, be placin triple and things bro Diamond ring got the loot poppin out my jeans
Now I plan to my glock cocked If trouble was for me then why not? em what I'm made of plus raised on, on my block Chancellor Ave, many turn to the street, thugs snatchin bags We out for power, cash it wasn't fast it'll make me mad I'm like, pimpin My on the corner with his gat tucked, in Youngest buckin somethin the life he leads the he don't need, don't we all know He tryin to rise up and we go doe, still he rise
Dreams of lost I hit the broke where the fiends get coke and still I rise now I float ghost we come around, I'm runnin down clutchin a pound, live as sirens, the sound I used to hustle with my moms til the sun My homey Harm doin time from drug game Stolen cars, war scars, born a Behind bars, go to sleep to see the stars Freedom is ours, though we trapped on a block Crackheads only ten learn to cops
In my glock's my plastic, pa*sion for blastin bastards No faces for open caskets, ya cap backwards Ya cowards ain't for pistol practice I send my missiles through mattress Leavin holes in your body a cactus While me and my crew be boppin more greens than and loot to keep the seams in my motherf**kin poppin Leavin ya spleen to up Half of you ni**az is than a Snicker Let's go to war and see who quicker and still I rise, and I rise...
Still I (still I) I (I rise) give me to the sky (the sky) And if (and if) I die (I die) I want you to cry
I (still I) I rise (I rise) Please me to the sky (the sky) And if (and if) I die (I die) I want you to cry
little kid] Y'all ni**az All day So now I got blades, bi**h Thought you Your mouth is C'mon pops, go..