L.I.F.E. Gives

[Verse 1]
Get’n older, life seems life is holding jewels and money folders
Fall back to the Earth when it’s over
What’s important is my family and then comes the pen
Must earn big chips for this type of living
Part of me sold, part of me lost, part of me cold, in poverty with goals
Hurts to let go your hold and go to work, when I work on these mics or books
Or pen and pad, mad on my way home from thinking of a tone or a vocal tone
Fucked up conditions or some money that’s owed
My brother is gone and I’m supposed to continue

[Chorus]
Live gives, life takes away, must stay positive
Thеre will be no change until you mеnd your ways

[Verse 2]
So I continue, life leads many paths, treacherous and fiendish, beautiful and sad
I take a stroll and wonder how the world could be
I puff a spliff but I’m still not at peace
Cluckers, helicopters, sirens that distract the silence
City life the life I know, I’m changing the stages, the level
Consider me UP! I know I get buck and illy
The right mood, right beat, LA city push me quicker now
I peep it swiftly, I balance these arts on a broken heart
I keep it macking it’s hard, it’s work and it’s tears, it’s pain it takes years
To stand on your own to a child ‘till a man’s grown
This is for rocking and learning, we revolve rims spin
Some die some live, on the beat on the job with the cops or the crowd
The truth hurts the truth works, truth burst and it must balance scales
As evil to Life, life will avail, time will tell, sometimes it feels I’ll fail

[Chorus]
Live gives, life takes away, must stay positive
There will be no change until you mend your ways

[Verse 3]
How much weight, how many twists till you break
How many hours to waste on a slave wage tryin’ to do my music and live
Tryin’ to raise my children and give
Some men taste the power and love it, serenade it and hold
Some say it’s all about the cheddar, it’s all about the lettuce, forget the fallen moments
Materialist over-indulgence, this is the edge
Who said the best things was not for you, when some get it they lose the thirst, the hunger
The focus and never come close, so they chill and stay posted, stagnant their visions in fragments
Feeling the change from growing pains, not doing what’s suppose when it comes to a close
Shocked, clocked a lot of G’s but still didn’t know

[Outro]
There will be no change until you mend your ways
There will be no change until you mend your ways
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