These are our lives But we act like the walking dead With hollow eyes we watch our time Slip through our hands And nothing's ever said No matter what
And our hero's will stand strong There is a place only the dead know Real corpses dance and are true to heart It's the making of our story Where in death
streets jesus our praises due to you only if they knew, this is my life [Chorus] This is my liiiiiiiiife Surviving in the struggle, living so shife This is my liiiiiiiiife When will I get to bubble, living
leave them a choice Cause who are we to say who lives and die Breathes and stops All this judgement on other lives Needs to stop What are we livin' for
our block we still praaayyy) You know what I'm saying (But on our block we still praaayyy) 183rd and ? My Block That's right (But on our block we
man, no witnesses Only the questions of who smoked the man, young adolescents in our prime live a life of crime, though it ain't logical We hobble through these
[These are the brakes] It be your listenin pleasure While you're doin your chores [These are the brakes] No matter where you from It's for you and yours [These are
I neva have to fit in So tryin to keep up with my programs is like a dead end My girl love me but fuck it my heart beat slow And right now the tour bus
Only when G-O-D be the one inside of me Rockin' it, not in the flesh Come listen to the sound coming out the northwest now Our hearts in places mending
fuck around and get your head burnt [Raekwon] I'm a New York dinosaur, Staten Island artifact Hip-Hop's never dead, the (Cuban) gave 'em heart attacks
park waiting, These are my poison diaries like Mark Latham, So start hating, though you know in your heart, We?ve been owning this art since our flow
miss, we're keeping on Our rhyme styles your sleeping on Our fuse is lit and where's the bong See the naked truth like peeping Tom's Your styles are weak
deep when I'm dressing in drag I call it freedom of expression, most just call me a fag 'Cause our dudes look like chicks, and our chicks look like dykes
word I've said? The big picture is my dream is dead These are the hard times here to inspire Convenient how it always works out this way The message you'll find, heart
to most We are the sparks that shine so bright Shall not live on bended knee, shall not lay down our arms While we stand These iron shields are raised
less This is the path we?ve chosen Our mind and our future left to rot These lives are worth nothing Our lives worth nothing Fuck As we watch our dreams