Ludacris - Rock and a Hard Place lyrics

Hell yeah it's an everyday struggle
Trying to get out, trying to get out
Trying to make it check this out nigga, what

I'm stuck in between a rock and a hard place
Bad luck is what results from my paper chase
I keep looking but it ain't no goals
So I don't wanna look no mo', what
I'm stuck in between a rock and a hard place
Bad luck is what results from my paper chase
I keep looking but it ain't no goals
So I don't wanna look no mo', what

I need to get away to another
Day or place and time
And find where reality can ease my mind
And shine on me like the sun to the Earth
For what it's worth
My turf is rough and rugged so I gave birth
To a dream where cream lies between
All the dirt and the gravel


So I battle to achieve my green
And still try to move forward
At a steady pace
Cause bad luck is interfering
With my paper chase
So I erase the crime, lies, and sad cries
With sore eyes and keep mines on an up rise
But it don't work cause
I'm steady getting jerked
By my neighborhood, up to no good
Where bad niggas lurk they irk me
Leaving effects that's too negative
So Ludacris is looking for a
Better place to live and I can't stand it
It's really got me bugging
It's like I'm in a war and
I just keep on tugging cause I'm

I'm stuck in between a rock and a hard place
Bad luck is what results from my paper chase
I keep looking but it ain't no goals
So I don't wanna look no mo', what
I'm stuck in between a rock and a hard place
Bad luck is what results from my paper chase
I keep looking but it ain't no goals
So I don't wanna look no mo', what

I try to find a way out of this maze
It's got me crazed i'm in a daze
So many ways to boost into a different phase
But I can't think I can't do nothing
You think I'm fronting
You hear me grunting Lord
You ain't even saying nothing
I need some currency before
There's an emergency forget crimes
I won't let my mind get the best of me
It's not gon' happen
I'm trapped in two worlds
On one side I see diamonds
On the other I see pearls
It's a whirlwind disaster with two damn sides
So I'm gone with the wind then
Come right back with the tide
I keep my eyes on the skies
And my head in the clouds
And when my mouth is shut up
It makes my thoughts get loud!
Just like a crowd in a stadium
Mills I be craving them
Money making schemes locked up in my cranium
Cause I need out of this critical situation
My mind's in jail
I don't know the time that it's facing
Cause I'm

I'm stuck in between a rock and a hard place
Bad luck is what results from my paper chase
I keep looking but it ain't no goals
So I don't wanna look no mo', what
I'm stuck in between a rock and a hard place
Bad luck is what results from my paper chase
I keep looking but it ain't no goals
So I don't wanna look no mo', what

I'm sick of knocking, I'm sick of clocking
I'm sick of dropping in a hole
Never reaching my goal
It's got my soul separated into pieces
It just increases i'm hit with anger like a
Cook's hit with hot greases
So if you understood my attitude
Maybe you'd feel what I'm feeling
And it'd start appealing
To your intellect and aspect
Of dreams and aspirations
Death by temptations
Even got my heart pacing
So I'm tracing a line where I
Can find a better path and make it last
Sit back and laugh before the aftermath
The tragic flaw is what makes it raw
So let it thaw and I'll get through
It even if I have to crawl
My way, I see the sun and there's no delay
I'ma pray
Cause the Lord'll make a brighter day
Or will he keep me in this holding cell?
But enough with the questions
The only story to tell is that I'm

I'm stuck in between a rock and a hard place
Bad luck is what results from my paper chase
I keep looking but it ain't no goals
So I don't wanna look no mo', what
I'm stuck in between a rock and a hard place
Bad luck is what results from my paper chase
I keep looking but it ain't no goals
So I don't wanna look no mo', what