| If murder is hereditary, then dyin young is my destiny
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| Fuck doin time for felonies, the hell for what ya tellin me It’s what I’m seein, believin it’s a better side
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| All I’m seein is my genocide, suicidal thoughts
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| Brought my mamma broken hearts
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| I threw a jack at niggaz, and drinkin liquor
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| To help me see God quicker
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| All it did was have me mad to hear my daughter call me Mr.
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| Her mamma shoulda taught her better
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| Now I’m writin Dear God letters
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| Askin how my cousin went from makin hella Gs through the years
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| To doin $ 30 hits and alcoholic tears
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| Fears from these streets scared me I decided a long time ago, to let the Lord guide me Through this optimism, kids dyin, I don’t know
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| I guess I miss em, like lil James Darby
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| And Lil Mann out the projects
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| Never got to see they happy years, all they felt
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| Was the blast from a lost tear, and last year
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| The nation felt shame, but only they mothers felt the pain
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| To hear the Lord call they name
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| This game has got me feelin like I’m losin all my sanity
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| At times I think the world is blamin me But I ain’t lettin em get me down
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| I’m keepin my head up cause I know I got a dosage
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| Heaven is so close
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| Chorus (2X): Heaven is so close
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| (Now I lay me down to sleep)
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| When you born and die and live in the ghetto
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| (I pray the Lord my soul to keep)
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| Heaven is so close
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| (And if I should die before I wake)
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| When you live and die and live in the ghetto
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| (I pray the Lord my soul to take)
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| Bill Clinton, you gon feel me Takin welfare from ghetto children
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| That’s why every hood infected and lookin blurry
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| I mean every homie I know in the dope game
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| We sell it, but who make cocaine?
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| Artificial contaminated
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| My little homie lost his life for rims that was gold plated
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| 211 ain’t nothin but robbery
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| 187 ain’t nothin but a hobby
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| In the ghetto, death is like a ??? |
| cheese
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| I mean yo best friend turn into yo enemy
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| Lord knows, I don’t wanna die young
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| Earth is hell, heaven is eternal sun
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| Bury me a G, fuck dyin poor
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| The hood got me trapped, I’m a victim of this ghetto
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| Mouth full of cooked rocks, standin on the block
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| 100 Gs, two keys, runnin from crooked cops
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| I done seen little kids lose they life
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| I done seen niggaz mammas smoke the pipe
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| I done grew up with killas, my brother died a drug dealer
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| Like Spice 1 say, even young niggaz
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| Die in the ghetto
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| You never know when it’s yo time, or my time to go Chorus (2X) Silkk- Man, whattup dawg, I found out
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| None of us can cheat death
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| No point in? |
| fakin it out?
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| See, I was born hustlin
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| Ain’t no way for us out here
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| In the streets to get off
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| But, uh, judgement comes for all of us And when it’s yo time to go Can you go clear conscience?
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| See they often told me heaven was close
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| But I think it’s even closer, look
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| It ain’t no fun to have yo name on wanted posters, look
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| See I ain’t got time for bitches
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| I keep my hand on my 9, and keep my mind on my riches
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| It’s a everyday struggle, everyday hustle
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| Tryin to make bank
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| I went to jail for a couple of months
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| And I had some time to think
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| See I really can’t take it Everybody changed up at the last minute to go to heaven
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| They ain’t gon make it The government ain’t got no love for none of us God, you gotta understand, just think if you was one of us
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| I be forever ballin in my sleep
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| Be countin, thinkin, of ways to get out, it’s just too deep
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| I seen so many things and wonder, «Why me?»
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| I pray to God let my mom die before I She pray to God, «Don't let my son die before me»
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| And I wonder, if it’s low
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| They say heaven is a million miles away
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| But to Silkk it seem so close
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| Heaven is so close when you born and die and live in the ghetto
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| Heaven is so close when you born and die and live in the ghetto
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| (yeah, you know what I’m sayin?)
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| This goes out to all my dead homies out there
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| (I know how it is up there, you know what I’m sayin?)
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| You see what I’m sayin? |
| (no red or blue, no black or white
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| we all the same up there, fool) Sometimes they point the finger
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| at us ghetto people (you know this go out to all my little dead
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| homies out there) Mr. Serv-On, Master P, Silkk the Shocker
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| (P brother, Kevin Miller, slugged up) It ain’t changed
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| (You know lil Reg, Joshua Carter) Everybody need life insurance
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| (Howard little brother, you know what I’m sayin? mistakes happen)
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| You never know when it’s gon be yo time to go
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| (you know what I’m sayin, nigga, we with you)
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| Cause if you live in the ghetto
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| (And my cousin Randall, nigga, I’m gon always see you nigga)
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| It’s like you one step away from heaven
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| (whether I’m dead or alive, my homie D. Fuller, nigga
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| my homie Mouse, you know what I’m sayin, no matter how you went fool
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| you still got love from me, it's gon be like to everybody
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| that done lost somebody, whether it’s your mother, your uncle
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| your sister, your brother, your child, it doesn’t matter
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| you know what I’m sayin, they all up there, it’s gon be one big party
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| with tangaray and hennesy and pineapple juice, they even get up like
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| that up there, you know, so y’all take it easy out there
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| for No Limit, T-R-U, fool, Heaven, Heaven)
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| Chorus to fade |