[Ja Rule]
Dear god, I'm gonna teach you in this prayer
And I thank you for all the food you've given me

And all the health and strength
And may my family be held safely and strong
As well as myself

And I thank you for everything you've given me thus far, lord
And I beg your forgivness
For I sin everyday

In your sons name, Christ Jesus
Amen


[Chorus: Ja Rule]
They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive

I'll get even before I die
Cuz they all want me...Dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive

I'll get even before I die
Cuz this world wants me...Dead or alive


[Ja Rule]
^!$$% look at what the streets have done to me man
Hustlin and strugglin

I deserve a better hand
Cuz I'm runnin these streets under they say
Mother$#&@ers like you can't relate

Cuz you ain't all about the hustling all about the bustin
All about the thuggin, baby
Never let it go

If you gotta die, lie, shake it wit a fo'-fo'
Then do so, cuz that's the life you chose
Shoul've fallowed the cracks in the road

You heart and your soul
Cuz if there's one thing I know
Good ^!$$%z come and they go

(*##$ ^!$$%z actin like ho's, merely needed to get treated like one
Hope you got yourself a gun ^!$$%z
Cuz you know I @@#! and blow ^!$$%z

And if right silent the temp, get on some %#@!
Go on out, six feet deep and slump ^!$$%z
Cuz I'm a survivor like Destiny's Children

To the day of my demise
I'ma ask the lord why


[Chorus: Ja Rule]
They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive

I'll get even before I die
Cuz they all want me...Dead or alive
They all want me dead or alive

But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
Cuz this world wants me...Dead or alive


[Ja Rule]
Take a look at what this worlds done made me

All I really want to do is be happy, and raise my family
But I'm strong, mother$#&@ers can't break me down
^!$$%z really gonna hate me now

As I'm givin a $#&@
I'm tryna get my life together
%#@! a ^!$$% can't ride forever

Tryna see a hundred mil' or better
Befo' I die
Don't ask me why, I

Got a fasination wit for freak ho's
New whips wit two seats and two do's
I've been waitin so long to explode

Now watch me @@#! back and unload
Bullets goin threw the chest and out the back
%#@! is usually how the babry acts

Now the look in your face is so relaxed
Now your family moans and deals wit that
But me, I'm a survivor like Destiny's Children

Til the day of my demise
I'm gonna ask the lord why

[Chorus: Ja Rule]
They all want me dead or alive

But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
Cuz this world wants me...Dead or alive
They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive

I'll get even before I die
Cuz this world wants me...Dead or alive

[Ja Rule]
They all want me...Dead

Why the $#&@ would they want to see me live?
So I'm gearin up to get into some %#@!
^!$$%z better kiss the wife and kids
It's just the way us ^!$$%z live
And I run wit real ^!$$%z that run wit big guns

That are designed to pop ya lid (%#@!)
Never met a real ^!$$% I didn't like
Never met a (*##$ ^!$$% that I didn't fight
Now ^!$$%z gon get down, and a ^!$$% gon lay down
Dependin on how ^!$$%z view life
And you'll never look in my eyes

And you'll never, ever smile
Cuz your high, is comin down
And you can't touch me
But if you really wanna $#&@ wit me
C'mon and get your heat my ^!$$%z
Don't you ever prevoke my ^!$$%z
Don't ever doubt this ^!$$%

Cuz I'm a survivor like Destiny's Child
Til the day of my demise
I'm gonna ask the lord why

[Chorus: Ja Rule]
They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive

I'll get even before I die
Cuz this world wants me...Dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
Cuz this world wants me...Dead or alive
[Repeat once]