K-Ci, JoJo, Outlawz - Play Your Cards Right (Original Version) lyrics

I hope it can work out tonight wasssup
I know we been seein' each
Other for a long time
And (hahaha) I'm hopin' tonight can be the night
Yeah, that's right

Another shady mission
Had enough of shady tricks
You're so suspicous like watching
Pictures in hazy vision
Tonight is love making
Take you any place you wish
Today we're satisfied
Yesterday we've stolen kisses
Blind insanity
Perfect pictures of me and my family
Not understanding the destiny
Had they planned for me?
If I have kids, will I live to see them grow?
Though I don't know
I live the life of a thug
Nigga until the day I go
No broken promises, a sacred bond broken
I know I'll die alone
But yet and still I'm hopin'
Visions of prisons, maybe I'll be forgiven
I know it's better in Heaven
‘cause being here ain't livin'
Close my eyes and see nothing but pain
The world is crazy
Still, looking for a queen to
Plant seeds and have babies
Maybe I'll be the one, or just maybe I'm lost
You'll never know being cautious
If you play your cards right

If you play your cards right
Everything will be alright
If you play your cards right
Tonight will be the night
If you play your cards right
Everything will be alright
If you play your cards right
Tonight will be the night

I'm always in the mix life is full of tricks
I guess, tryin' my best
Nothing less, before I lay to rest
My quest and future I'm mourn
Like a new born baby
Intense and seldom to the world I'm so crazy
My daddy raised me to be a man
Do the best I can
He said you won't succeed in
Life without a plan
It's hard to take my people trade me
With Indian hate
Can't wait better change before it's too late

They got me at the bottom of a deck
Searching for my Ace
I can't take too many chances
Ain't much love in my place
Full of torment and soul
And it's written all in my face
Hollow inside
A crooked smile is the only trace
A mission slightly incomplete
Misconceptions of success and defeat
I roam these dark streets alone
Searching for yo homie, smokin' til I'm gone
When I need someone to kind
Of lay my burdens on

If you play your cards right
Everything will be alright
If you play your cards right
Tonight will be the night
If you play your cards right
Everything will be alright
If you play your cards right
Tonight will be the night

December 30 in nineteen-ninety feen yeah
My reincarnation steps in, born into a
World that don't love it'self
But the love is wealth
My little nigga listen closely
If you don't remember nothing else
Just remember that life ain't
Nothing but a game a gamble
And how you play yo hand will sho' explain
For what's ever
In times you gone journey into a crossroad
Get lost tho'
Keep on bailin' and let 'em see
You up in floss mode

Mysteriously it seems
Through my deepest thoughts and dreams
It's all wrong, Pop too long gone
And now way it seems I'm stranded on my own
Abandoned here in a zone protect my throne
Pow like king Al Capone style
Fake no jacks on this grind
Coked up with crack I get mine
Living life as a Don, Guess Gortex
Louis Vuitton with my future behind me
Livin' with these snakes
Sent here to blind me
One day I know my future's gonna find me
Am I crying?

If you play your cards right
Everything will be alright
If you play your cards right
Tonight will be the night
If you play your cards right
Everything will be alright
If you play your cards right
Tonight will be the night

Would you be patient, and you take your time
And you finess it, 9 times out of 10
Homeboy you gon' wake up with
Your breakfast in bed
But if you rush and you just be manhandlin'
You can and yo ass can go home tonight Haha
Play your cards right