[Chorus: Krayzie Bone]
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


[Layzie Bone]
^!$$% 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 ^!$$% just lost his first love, singin "Have you seen her?"

Tossin high beams, chasin pipe dreams
lookin for %#@! that really ain't there
I mean it is what you make it my ^!$$%, 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

^!$$% get up, better stand up, man up in yo' position
Never have no mercy for them ^!$$%z that's not applyin theyself
And %#@! ain't perfect so you gotta make it work for yo'self

You catch them coward ^!$$%z runnin, duckin, lookin for help
But the realist ^!$$%z 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

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[Krayzie Bone]
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 ^!$$%

that thought I was some kinda !@$)got, 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 ^!$$% 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

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[Wish Bone]
I've been shot, grew up without my pops

In the hood round block seen ^!$$%z shot
Got rid of them thangs, tryin to chase them knots
Cause I had to have it, knew ^!$$%z that's lookin for where my stash at

Watchin my back, puttin up ready for ^!$$%z 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


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