[Intro: Lamar] Life in the city, in the city [?] for ya But we the strongest survive Life, in the city In the city and nigga's tryna Only the survive
[Verse 1: Lamar] You ever been a of being a prisoner inside your own mind? The bright lights of the street lights will make you go Handicap your senses, you was just an apprentice of watching jump fences Now you in the Olympics and your hurdle was high enough to clear the tallest of clothes when they closing in on your behind Life of a delinquent even stole a [?] At fifteen, middle walked out the precinct I the cycle just continue The vital and fine print on the menu So you'lla never read it if a nigga lend you out my own pocket, to make it right You'll attend to Be on them corners with signs and a nine Cause nine out of ten, MAC 11's cry And twelve died and if anyone divides The six that carried you eventually lose lives story
[Hook: Kobe When the night falls anything can We just pray we it out alive We all make it to the top one day Success is a street going one way But we all make it Just try your best to
[Verse 2: F.A.B] (You all see a dead body?) Well, follow me the train tracks Where and insane Blacks They crack Candles where they were slain at And bottles get poured they would hang at Close, I you truth in this [?] Dead homies added to when truth is in question 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 I was home alone And started smoking cause daddy was scared to smoke alone Section 8 policies, Top and sunflower seeds June got kill't he ain't wanna lose his Wallaby's Constant atrocities, no one is There's no religion that can save you, say goodbye to faith Whether you Muslim or a Christian, Baptist, or Adventist, Atheist or non-religious Put survival on your Cause....
[Hook: Honeycutt] When the night falls can happen We pray we make it out alive We all make it to the top one day Success is a street going one way But we all make it try your best to survive
[Verse 3: CROOKED] You in apartment and saw your father on the carpet With a belt wrapped around his arm and a scarf under his And a shoved in his bicep this morning 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 collapsed on his body and you started I could CPR, jump start his heart if it's beating But his pulse to weaken His cardio region depleting as you given him of your breathing He dead and gone and you had a bad feeling when you was home Now it's etched in stone, you've been alone So you his gun, chrome handle all pearl, aw nah girl Put it to head, thinking, fuck 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 pray we it out alive We all wanna it to the top one day is a street only going one way But we all make it try your best to survive