Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - This Life lyrics
[Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - This Life lyrics]
You don't want to live this life
No, this life, it's not nice
You don't want to live this life
No, this life, it's not nice
Nigga stop! (What?) Hold on
Before you jump and just listen
Take a second to stradle the fence
Let me tell you about what you been missin
Ain't a damn thang
(damn thang) are you thinkin
The grass is greener?
Like a nigga just lost his first love
Singin "Have you seen her?"
Tossin high beams, chasin pipe dreams
Lookin for shit that really ain't there
I mean it is what you make it my nigga
You better just stay on your square
Down here, killers and theives
Pimps and pushers is on the prowl
If they find you out of your element
They'll pick you out of the crowd
Thang to do is face the music
Take a stand for yo' position
Nigga get up, better stand up
Man up in yo' position
Never have no mercy for them
Niggas that's not applyin theyself
And shit ain't perfect so you gotta
Make it work for yo'self
You catch them coward niggas runnin, duckin
Lookin for help
But the realist niggas in the game
Play the cards they was dealt me, myself
I got some issues I ain't dealin with yours
Everybody got they own drama
Rich or they poor
They gave me the 25 with the L
I'm in my jail cell it feel like a movie
I'm gettin so woozy from the stale smell
Bailin, breathin Hell's air
My first day here - I had
To get down with a nigga
That thought I was some kinda faggot
I had to show him no hoes stay here
Havin to die, it is my main fear
Why did I have to kill that man?
I should've never let my anger build
Now my state of awareness keeps
Me wishin I was thinkin
Should have reason I didn't really mean
To stop the boy from breathin
I was awake last night, real late last night
Cause, I heard some nigga screamin
Gettin raped last night i did the crime
But, I wasn't thinkin about me doin the time
These 6-by-9's
Is about to make me lose my mind
Trapped in these closed walls -
Ain't had no conversation
With my family on the outside cause
They won't except my phone calls
After a couple of years of sheddin tears
My heart is stone hard
Believe I'm ready for war and on guard
I've been shot, grew up without my pops
In the hood round block seen niggas shot
Got rid of them thangs
Tryin to chase them knots
Cause, I had to have it
Knew niggas that's lookin for
Where my stash at watchin my back
Puttin up ready for niggas
That wanna check that
And I can't keep it kind
If you puttin in work
And your dreams is just like mine
Wake up in cold sweats
Regrets about what I thought was lies
I can see me not doin that
But, I did it, we live it
The hood shows you no slack
And believe it, there's no, no no, comin back
Make money, think you're on that
Just ridin through the hood
You might have to push your wig back
Get the money man, the root of all evil
They say "Take it home man
" but damn I gotta watch my people
You'll be high, cause one us lay there
Not just him but damn, everybody he ran with
They all gettin money man, money man
Right here
(right here) - damn, see how life is
No, this life, it's not nice
You don't want to live this life
No, this life, it's not nice
Nigga stop! (What?) Hold on
Before you jump and just listen
Take a second to stradle the fence
Let me tell you about what you been missin
Ain't a damn thang
(damn thang) are you thinkin
The grass is greener?
Like a nigga just lost his first love
Singin "Have you seen her?"
Tossin high beams, chasin pipe dreams
Lookin for shit that really ain't there
I mean it is what you make it my nigga
You better just stay on your square
Down here, killers and theives
Pimps and pushers is on the prowl
If they find you out of your element
They'll pick you out of the crowd
Thang to do is face the music
Take a stand for yo' position
Nigga get up, better stand up
Man up in yo' position
Never have no mercy for them
Niggas that's not applyin theyself
And shit ain't perfect so you gotta
Make it work for yo'self
You catch them coward niggas runnin, duckin
Lookin for help
But the realist niggas in the game
Play the cards they was dealt me, myself
I got some issues I ain't dealin with yours
Everybody got they own drama
Rich or they poor
They gave me the 25 with the L
I'm in my jail cell it feel like a movie
I'm gettin so woozy from the stale smell
Bailin, breathin Hell's air
My first day here - I had
To get down with a nigga
That thought I was some kinda faggot
I had to show him no hoes stay here
Havin to die, it is my main fear
Why did I have to kill that man?
I should've never let my anger build
Now my state of awareness keeps
Me wishin I was thinkin
Should have reason I didn't really mean
To stop the boy from breathin
I was awake last night, real late last night
Cause, I heard some nigga screamin
Gettin raped last night i did the crime
But, I wasn't thinkin about me doin the time
These 6-by-9's
Is about to make me lose my mind
Trapped in these closed walls -
Ain't had no conversation
With my family on the outside cause
They won't except my phone calls
After a couple of years of sheddin tears
My heart is stone hard
Believe I'm ready for war and on guard
I've been shot, grew up without my pops
In the hood round block seen niggas shot
Got rid of them thangs
Tryin to chase them knots
Cause, I had to have it
Knew niggas that's lookin for
Where my stash at watchin my back
Puttin up ready for niggas
That wanna check that
And I can't keep it kind
If you puttin in work
And your dreams is just like mine
Wake up in cold sweats
Regrets about what I thought was lies
I can see me not doin that
But, I did it, we live it
The hood shows you no slack
And believe it, there's no, no no, comin back
Make money, think you're on that
Just ridin through the hood
You might have to push your wig back
Get the money man, the root of all evil
They say "Take it home man
" but damn I gotta watch my people
You'll be high, cause one us lay there
Not just him but damn, everybody he ran with
They all gettin money man, money man
Right here
(right here) - damn, see how life is