T.I., Pharrell, Common - Goodlife lyrics

I keep telling myself "Man
I'm living the good life"
I'm living the good life
I keep telling myself "Man
I'm living the good life"
I'm living the good life
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world

I was born into poverty raised in the sewage
Streets will always would be a part of me
They made me the truest
And even when my days wasn't the bluest
I never ran from adversity
Instead I ran to it
Fear ain't in the heart of me
I learned "just do it"
You get courage from your fears right
After you go through it
Now I come through in a Coupe on 22's
That ain't bad for a nigga
Who ain't even finish school
Don't get me wrong I ain't
Never been a fool
I just put off graduating for
A pair of tennis shoes
I used to use the beats to paint my pain
But nowadays man I can't complain
I got several automobiles and they
All on them thangs
Several solitaires and they all in one chain
They used to see me in the mall
I'm the same
And gettin brains from a couple
Of broads on the plane

I keep telling myself "Man
I'm living the good life"
I'm living the good life
I keep telling myself "Man
I'm living the good life"
I'm living the good life
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world

I come from Chi Town lost
And found in the struggle
Where dudes say "stay safe" and
"say out of trouble" speakers muffled
The law and BMs try to cuff you
Those with duffles move weight
And have muscle i dug through the dirt with
A verse for the people
Open up for Daddy Kane and Eazy at the Regal
The radio rarely put their
Needle on my record
They ain't see how the hood
And heaven were connected
Sales projected, ain't show how effective
Lessons learned
Sessions turned to life reflected
And everything I found real in life
Yo I kept it they say life's a teacher
You're gonna get tested
When a nigga changed they kept
Saying "that nigga strange"
They couldn't see how my
Mind on bigger things ahead of my time now I
Caught up with the game
Making good music, making paper
Making change and it's good

I keep telling myself "Man
I'm living the good life"
I'm living the good life
I keep telling myself "Man
I'm living the good life"
I'm living the good life
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world

I put gasoline drawers on
I stood in the fire
With enough heat to set the hood on fire
Man you niggas think Suge was off the wire
You should've seen the squad
Before I had Messiah we assumed the title as
The number one supplier
Felt like I was selling blow
Since I was in diapers
And we wished a nigga would come try us
We was cool with the killers
Best friends with the lifers
Quick to up and scrap if
A nigga wanna to deny
For what we considered then
A lucrative empire
But like that pimping time flash by you
Now I wonder what the judge think
As he reading my priors
'Cause prisons ain't full and
The reaper ain't biased
Anybody telling ya different's a damn liar
Gave the jail hell and shot
Birds at the hearse
Lived through worse and reversed the curse

I keep telling myself "Man
I'm living the good life"
I'm living the good life
I keep telling myself "Man
I'm living the good life"
I'm living the good life
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world