I want to, I want to, I want to, I want to Yeah, oh baby These streets remind me of quicksand When you're on it You keep going down, going down And there's no one to hold on to And there's no one to pull you out You keep on falling, falling No one can hear you calling So you end up self-destructing On a corner with a toolie on the waistline Just got about to binge or stay tight Teeth marks on my back from the canine Dark memories of when there was no sunshine Cause they said that I would make it I remember like yesterday Holding on to what God gave me Cause that's the life when you're living in the Anything in the Oh, sleeping in the That's the life when you're living in the Anything in the Oh, sleeping in the No need to cherish luxuries Cause everything come and go Even the life that you have is borrowed Cause you're not promised tomorrow So live your life as if every day's gonna be your last Once you move forward, can't go back Just prepare to remove your past Cause you gotta be willing to pray Yes, there gotta be, it gotta be a better way Yes, you gotta be willing to pray Cause there gotta be, it gotta be a better day Whoever said that the struggle would stop the day A lot of tooken dead or locked away Teenage women growing up with AIDS Cause that's the life when you're living in the Oh, eating in the Oh, sleeping in the That's the life when you're living in the Oh, eating in the Oh, sleeping in the Gunshots every night and a Crooked cops on site and a Every day it's a fight and a Got kids to feed and a Selling coke and weed and a Every day somebody bleed and a That's the life when you're living in the Oh, living by the Oh, eating in the That's the life when you're living in the Oh, sleeping in the Oh, living in the Ah, ah, ah Ah, ah, ah Ah, ah, ah Ah, ah Ah, ah, ah