[Intro: Kendrick in the city, life in the city [?] for ya But we Only the survive Life, in the city In the city and tryna survive Only the strongest
[Verse 1: Lamar] You ever been a victim of being a inside your own mind? The lights of the street lights will make you go blind Handicap your senses, you was just an apprentice of watching jump fences Now you in the Olympics and your hurdle was high to clear the tallest of clothes lines Talented when they in on your behind Life of a young delinquent even a [?] At fifteen, middle fingers walked out the I mean the cycle just The vital information and fine on the menu So you'lla read it even if a nigga lend you Money out my own pocket, to it right still attend to Be on them with stop signs and a nine Cause nine out of ten, MAC 11's cry And twelve died yesterday and if divides The six that carried you eventually lose they story
[Hook: Honeycutt] When the night falls can happen We just we make it out alive We all wanna it to the top one day is a street only going one way But we all wanna it try your best to survive
[Verse 2: F.A.B] (You all wanna see a body?) Well, follow me the train tracks Where angry and Blacks slang crack Candles burn they were slain at And bottles get poured they would hang at Close, I give you truth in [?] Dead homies added to swears when truth is in Like "Man I think he lying or he put on someone" If I you ten years, got the right to say we cousins I'm from the city of broken homes, and often I was home And started smoking cause daddy was scared to smoke alone Section 8 policies, Top and sunflower seeds June got cause he ain't wanna lose his Wallaby's atrocities, no one is safe There's no religion that can you, say goodbye to your faith you Muslim or a Christian, Baptist, Jewish or Adventist, Atheist or non-religious Put survival on wishlist Cause....
[Hook: Honeycutt] When the night anything can happen We just we make it out alive We all wanna it to the top one day Success is a street going one way But we all make it Just try your to survive
[Verse 3: CROOKED] You walked in apartment and saw your father on the With a belt wrapped around his arm and a under his armpit And a needle shoved in his Earlier this you warned him His habits are something you couldn't digest You cry "I just...Don't wanna see you die" Now you dissect the fact that he hasn't opened his eyes yet You on his body and you started thinking I perform CPR, jump start his heart if it's beating But his pulse started to His cardio depleting as you given him part of your breathing He dead and and you had a bad feeling when you was heading home Now it's etched in stone, you've been left So you grabbed his gun, chrome all pearl, aw nah girl Put it to your head, thinking, everybody like a call girl in a small world pulled back but it didn't clap...damn
[Hook: Honeycutt] the night falls anything can happen We just we make it out alive We all make it to the top one day Success is a only going one way But we all wanna it Just try best to survive