[Intro: It's ya boy L-Burna, Thugs-N-Harmony baby You know it is baby, the struggle don't stop Ten toes to the ground, where my at?
[Chorus: Layzie Every day I wake I pray, I can find my way day get harder man, but I promise not to lose my faith Every day the sun shine, let the Heavens beam on me need a helpin hand, c'mon you can lean on me
[Layzie It keep harder and harder, beggin and borrowin thanks to the generals, and sergeants Givin us guidance, keepin us marchin, tryin to make us targets Regardless, we strong like them down in New Orleans man Meaner Katrina, and our dreams'll never fold up man hold up man, 400 years of oppression couldn't break us But it us, leaders of the new school, so damn courageous Flippin them pages them stages, if it wasn't for the music and sports Could we afford we afford? Can we pay our way out of court? to Flesh Bone, my brother gone, better believe that he comin home He did the crime, yeah he doin his time, but he back strong on you bitches, damn the riches, I'd rather be and gifted than to be walkin around lost, a hell bound sentence Can I get a witness, can I get a It's a set-up down here in the ghetto, off in the ghetto, they don't let up down here But I'ma keep fightin man we get this shit how it 'posed to be I should be your president, yeah, y'all vote for me
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C] We livin off in these streets, under the of the beast If you to ease the squeeze, you gotta pray We livin off in these streets, under the thumb of the If you tryin to ease the squeeze, you pray, pray, pray
[Layzie Got a to Bill Gates, NASA, Oprah; ask us Do we help? Take off the mask Just show us love, hold us, us What y'all on, more disasters? C'mon, baby we willin to work, us create these jobs When we do get paid the ends don't meet, nigga feel like he just robbed We've got kids to feed, bills to pay, spendin it on a Niggaz is wreckless, too young and restless, flat out selfish can't help it, America the great bred us like that Niggaz is starvin, stomachs is touchin, y'all fed us like that We be's, so incomplete, why do they us this way? We run the streets, we heat, y'all can't keep us this way Cause we don't educate our damn self, penetrate your whole Take control of our destiny, y'all victims Can I get a witness, can I get a It's a set-up down here Off in the ghetto, in the ghetto, they don't let up down here But I'ma keep fightin man 'til I get this how it 'posed to be I should be president, yeah, y'all should vote for me
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[Thin C] day "Fingazz on the track"} [Layzie] Yeah, it don't stop 'til the, drop C] C'mon, you can lean on me