You Gotta

[Verse One]:
I'm still strollin' through my nightmares
Passin' graveyards seein' tombstones with my name emblazed on 'em god
Faces in the mirror
Displacement of my spirit
Through faces of endearment I just walked in alone
Posted in the crime zones is like a fiery pit
Where poverty sit
Confinement of where positive lives
Got the red and green dice plus the white one
Still tryin' to get my little money on the side son
Shit
Baggin' up the coke you got the right one baby
But lately I've been feelin' adrift, led astray
Sippin' rounds got my eyes with that glisten and glaze
Walkin' blocks in a habitual daze
And niggas is still loadin' that Glock up
This is for them wild little niggas with they crack in they locker
And the smart kids who get them A's and B's
And the pregnant dope fiends who give AIDS to they seeds
See we all gotta die one day, I pray it ain't me

[Chorus]:
See we all gotta die one day
I hope when your time comes it went your way
I hope you at peace and your kids is paid
And everybody that you miss will meet you at the gates
But for now you gotta live
For now you gotta live
For now you gotta live

[Verse Two]:
Stare into my eyes see the makin' of an old soul
Just minus the pork bacon and the Old Gold
Miller High Life
Boppin' to the Chi-Lites
Thinkin' everyday will be mine to live my life
I think at any rate, pray that I can bury cakes
So my kids can live a better life than I did
Word to my cousin Bobby and his cousin Dre
Rest in peace, so some nigga named Price took him away
As memories fade and slip away like dreams
In this modern day slave trade, Babylon seem
Lost cats like Rawstein
Trickin' on my queen then embarked on a new scheme
Embody street scenes
Fully inebriated, two steppin' on the pavement
While my man bumps my new shit out his whip
But on the flip side some niggas abusin' his wiz
Spendin' money on the side, chicken out on his kids
But no matter what she's still gotta find a way to live

[Chorus]:
See we all gotta die one day
I hope when your time comes it went your way
I hope you at peace and your kids is paid
And everybody that you miss will meet you at the gates
But for now you gotta live
For now you gotta live
For now you gotta live

[Verse Three]:
Yo, I kiss my guardian angel on the lips
Gave her a taste of Heaven while God threw His fits
And she even let me hit
Took me to the Fountain of Youth
Where we both cupped our hands and took sips
But while I was lookin' stronger, she was lookin' sick
She's human now, her silver wings fell to the ground
She cried
Tears of diamonds, I caught 'em in my palm
And watched 'em evaporate into thin air and was gone
She said God was angry for the acts that we performed
And now, fallin' from Heaven and trapped in human form
And she would feel pain and regret of doin' wrong
And when Armageddon came she would feel the fire storm
God's greatest creation
Not for human eyes nor human sensation
Yet she showed her human side
She fell to the floor, screaming to God, "Why?"
Then the Heaven's opened up and took her before she died

[Chorus]:
See we all gotta die one day
I hope when your time comes it went your way
I hope you at peace and your kids is paid
And everybody that you miss will meet you at the gates
But for now you gotta live
For now you gotta live
For now you gotta live