T.I. - Doin’ My Job lyrics

Ay I'm working here, know what I'm saying
Try to put yourself in my shoes for a second
Its not personal I'm just sayin though

Ay look from when the moon came out
'till the sun came up
I was supplyin' the days when
Where they flame up
Our mamas passing, by trying to explain us
Pissing in the bushes like they
Never house trained us
But, try to understand thats how we came up
You get to know us
You'll love us but you can't change us (naw)
Really we rather be rich and famous
But in the mean time were
Forced to slang dust
'Dro or crack cocaine, Penicillin to Rogaine
Ecstacy, Viagra
Whatever'll get the dough mayne
I'm tired of people misrepresenting my domain
Oh you think we out here killing for nothing
Hustlin for no gain (picture that)

Hey man I'm just doing my job
Hey lady, don't mind me I'm just doing my job
I don't wanna make your life more harder
I'm just doin my job
You live here, I work here I'm doing my job

I don't know if you don't know
Don't care or can't see
Every time something up in the hood
It ain't me and I ain't always up to no
Good and on the creep
So you ain't always gotta pass
Through the hood without speaking
(how you doin'?)
We ain't out here threatening your lives
Raping your children
We just out here staying alive
Making a million (you know)
Working hard
Trying to survive chasing a million
You hear us talking loud
Just think of us as chameleons
Adapting to situations
But accusations of stealing
And burglarizing your house
I mean you just hurting my feelings
We got lives, we wanna live nice too
We got moms, dads, wives, kids just like you
But our options are few
It's hell in high school
When your helping with the rent lights
And the gas bill too
So before you go judging us
Loving us won't hurt when you're under 25
Staying alive's hard work

Hey man I'm just doing my job
Hey lady, don't mind me I'm just doing my job
I don't wanna make your life more harder
I'm just doin my job
You live here, I work here I'm doing my job

And for you to see what I'm saying
Open eyes will help if you could think about
Somebody besides yourself
Why you pointing fingers at me
Analyze yourself
Quit all that chastising and try
To provide some help
Instead of calling the law
And busting my balls with all due respect
We don't even be fucking with y'all (maan)
And we can't help it cause it is like this
We don't like it no more than
You that we live like this
Always stuck in the grind
Summertime to wintertime
Cutting school to sell fifty
Dimes by dinner time
See everything we know we
Learned from the streets
Since thirteen I've been hustling
And earning my keep

(sample playing in the background)
Hey man I'm just doing my job
Hey lady, don't mind me I'm just doing my job
I don't wanna make your life more harder
I'm just doin my job
You live here, I work here I'm doing my job