[DMX]
Uhh.. this is life (this is life)

This is what I know (this what I know)
So to me (so to me) this is life (this is life)


[Chorus: DMX (repeat 2X)]

One more road to cross

One more risk to take
Gotta live my life
like there's one more move to make


[DMX]
I'm up at like 6 AM, to check this ^!$$%

He work the nightshift, and I gots to check them figures
Knock on his door, peoples talkin bout, "He ain't there,"
but the house is packed, %#@! I know he here somewhere

See money get high, I don't knock what a ^!$$% do to get by
Just make sure you gettin by don't !#@* with you gettin mine
Ain't the first time he ran off, shoulda split his %#@! then

Hate to think of what he's did and if I catch him slippin
won't be an $$#-whippin, I can tell you that
I keep it real with this cat, he go and sell two packs

and run off (damn) tell me, he was locked down, up North
and you out a week later? That's bull%#@!!
I bust off, I need this dough

$#&@ you think I'm here for my health?
I need this wealth, because I feed myself
You play with my life, when you play with my money

Playin around but this'll be the last time you think somethin's funny

[Chorus]


[DMX]
Yo, I've been casin the liquor store, for a month now

with me and two other ^!$$%z, is about to run up in there and shut it down
I got four people on the inside, one stay in the back
Two stock boys, one at the register but he count the stacks

Aight (*##$, put on the ski mask, make sure that when we ask
for the dough they know that we takin all three bags
Now see that? You gotta hero, shoot that ^!$$%

Matter of fact, you hit the back, I'll put two in that ^!$$%
Hardhead mother$#&@ers always get it
I told him what would happen if he moved the ^!$$% moved so I did it

Did you get it? I asked my man as he was comin from the back
^!$$% opened his mouth said nothin and fell out flat
This cat come out spittin, hittin my mans, his mans

Couldn't control what was in his hands
I'm hit, damn! I bust back, and got the $#&@ up out of there
Didn't get a dime, but at least I got up out of there


[Chorus]


[DMX]
Aiyyo I see it, try to avoid it, but it comes
That's how it's goin in the slums over crumbs

Somethin little becomes somethin major
^!$$%z gettin blown up like a pager
Ear to ear with the razor, pour out my soul

Took control of hurt, why must Earl Simmons, swim in dirt?
I'm gon' make it work, twenty-eight and tryin to get, baptized
Priest cannot touch me cause he said I gave him bad vibes

Ryde, when I Die, straight down, but I'm plottin
We all gots to go but who wants to be forgotten?
I'ma leave a mark, and it won't be the mark of the devil

Throw dirt and may your hands burn when you touch the shovel
The level of animosity is stoppin me from thrivin
!#@* what them ^!$$%z is talkin about, I'm survivin

Alive and goin through it, but I made my bed
So now it's in these flames that I, lay my head


[Chorus 2X]