| Every day, somethin in my way, I try
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| Shit ain’t goin right, I try to see the light, I try
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| Ohh, it’s like my eyes got a cover on 'em, and somethin holdin me back
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| A better man, better level, better know I try
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| Uh-huh, get off me, AH-HAH! |
| Uh, yeah yo
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| Listen, I done played with the snakes in the grass
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| Paid for my mistakes I made in the past
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| Everybody ate when I came with the cash
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| At least I tried to ride the wave 'til it crashed
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| Same wood on the gun handle is on the dash
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| All the hoods that son ran through is on smash
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| They can’t identify you with a mask
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| And the bible’ll tell you nothin is gonna last
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| The name of the game’s survival
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| If you make it alive when you ride through they make it arrival
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| My boo is gon' ride, you know I’m gon' ride too
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| Make an M every day, I’m gon' try to — let’s go
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| Uh-huh, get off me, AH-HAH! |
| Uh, yeah yo
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| I tried to tell niggaz I’m willin to blast for it
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| I only try to give it to niggaz that ask for it
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| Got them things on the scale, I’m still weighin 'em
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| Thought my dues was paid, I’m still payin 'em
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| Couple Eleanor’s and the Goose, I’m still Bay’in 'em
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| Semi’s and the fully’s, know that the truth stay with him
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| Wolves and gorillas is loose, so don’t play with him
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| Somethin’s holdin him back, nothin that you could say to him
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| Popped champagne with Biggie at the Palladium
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| Put that good hawk work in with the titaniums
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| Shit switch around when them heats get fired
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| And ya peeps just died, but at least he tried — let’s go
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| Uh-huh, get off me, AH-HAH!
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| Uh, yeah — watch the game get tooken over
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| I’m still on the same side of the fence, I’m just lookin over
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| A solider, from the gravel to the grass
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| to the obstacles in life I traveled in the past
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| Whether I’m holdin a mic or holdin a mac
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| It’s like an invisible force is holdin me back
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| But I ain’t lettin go of my pride
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| After I get the dough I’ll slide, better know I tried
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| Let’s go, uh
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| Here come another day up on me
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| Put the pressure on me, here we go again ahhh
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| I try to do what’s right when life is so wrooooong
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| I want a better way, I see a better day
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| 'Nuff what the people said, I want a better me
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| God knows that I try but time won’t wait for me
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| I tried, hey! |