[Intro: ya boy L-Burna, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony baby You what it is Duece-double-oh-six baby, the struggle don't Ten to the ground, where my soldiers at?
[Chorus: Layzie day I wake I pray, prayin I can find my way Every day get harder man, but I promise not to my faith Every day the sun shine, let the Heavens beam on me Peoples need a helpin hand, you can lean on me
Bone] It keep harder and harder, beggin and borrowin thanks to the generals, lieutenants and Givin us guidance, keepin us marchin, tryin to make us targets Regardless, we strong like them folks in New Orleans man Meaner than Katrina, and our dreams'll never up man Better hold up man, 400 years of couldn't break us But it made us, leaders of the new school, so courageous Flippin pages rockin them stages, if it wasn't for the music and sports Could we afford we afford? Can we pay our way out of court? Peace to Flesh Bone, my brother gone, better believe he comin home He did the crime, yeah he his time, but he comin back strong on you bitches, the riches, I'd rather be blessed and gifted to be walkin around lost, with a hell bound sentence Can I get a witness, can I get a witness? It's a set-up down Deep in the ghetto, off in the ghetto, they don't let up here But I'ma keep man 'til 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 streets, under the thumb 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 to ease the squeeze, you gotta pray, pray, pray
Bone] Got a message to Gates, NASA, Oprah; ask us Do we need Take off the mask Just show us love, us, grab us What y'all waitin on, disasters? C'mon, baby we willin to work, help us create these When we do get paid the ends don't meet, nigga like he just been robbed got kids to feed, bills to pay, spendin it on a necklace Niggaz is wreckless, too young and restless, just flat out Just can't help it, America the great bred us that Niggaz is starvin, is touchin, y'all ain't fed us like that We be's, so incomplete, why do they us this way? We run the streets, we totin heat, y'all keep us this way Cause we don't educate our damn self, penetrate whole system Take control of our destiny, eliminate y'all Can I get a witness, can I get a witness? It's a down here Off in the ghetto, deep in the ghetto, don't let up down here But I'ma keep fightin man I get this shit 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 stop 'til the, casket drop C] C'mon, you can lean on me