[Intro: Lamar] Life in the city, life in the [?] for ya But we Only the survive Life, in the city In the city and tryna survive Only the survive
[Verse 1: Lamar] You ever been a victim of being a prisoner inside your own The bright lights of the lights will make you go blind Handicap your senses, you was just an apprentice of niggas jump fences Now you in the Olympics and your hurdle was high enough to the tallest of clothes lines Talented when closing in on your behind of a young delinquent even stole a [?] At fifteen, fingers walked out the precinct I mean the just continue The vital information and fine on the menu So you'lla never read it even if a lend you Money out my own pocket, to it right You'll still to Be on corners with stop signs and a nine Cause nine times out of ten, MAC cry And died yesterday and if anyone divides The six that you eventually lose they lives True
[Hook: Kobe When the falls anything can happen We just pray we make it out We all make it to the top one day Success is a street 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 across the tracks Where angry and Blacks slang crack Candles burn where were slain at And bottles get poured where they hang at Close, I give you truth in [?] Dead homies added to swears when truth is in Like "Man I think he or he put that on someone" If I you ten years, got the right to say we cousins I'm from the of broken homes, and often I was home alone And momma started smoking cause daddy was scared to alone Section 8 policies, Top and sunflower seeds June got kill't cause he ain't lose his Wallaby's Constant atrocities, no one is There's no religion that can you, say goodbye to your faith Whether you Muslim or a Christian, Baptist, Jewish or Adventist, or non-religious Put survival on your Cause....
Kobe Honeycutt] When the falls anything can happen We pray we make it out alive We all wanna it to the top one day is a street only going one way But we all make it Just try best to survive
3: KXNG CROOKED] You walked in apartment and saw father on the carpet With a belt wrapped his arm and a scarf under his armpit And a shoved in his bicep Earlier this you warned him His addict habits are something you couldn't You cry "I just...Don't wanna see you die" Now you tryna dissect the fact that he hasn't opened his yet You on his body and you started thinking I could perform CPR, start his heart if it's beating But his pulse to weaken His cardio depleting as you given him part of your breathing He dead and gone and you had a bad feeling you was heading home Now it's etched in stone, been left alone So you grabbed his gun, chrome handle all pearl, aw nah Put it to your head, thinking, fuck everybody a call girl in a small world Then back but it didn't clap...damn
[Hook: Kobe 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 best to