I don't know why, tears in my eyes, looking to the sky, hoping I can fly, don't wanna die, gotta stay high, just to get by, on guard I try, on guard rely, going good deny, police questioning no reply, outlaw defy, look me in my eyes, see I'm not the one to try, pull up drive by, hotter than July, it's do or die, in the hood you do you die, being crucified, when we unify, get scrutinized, image utilized, to be brutalized, call it justify, call it suicide, ever question who provide, utilize, make to abide, since you arrived, one day you gon rise, on the day you gon ride, do they sign, like they do your kind, be eulogized, I walk through the fire, they call me a lot of things, but never a liar, I walk through the fire, I wanna go higher, they call me a lot of things, but never a liar, one day we gon stop the pain, one day we gon stop the rain, one day we gon get out the game, one day we gon take proper aim, first time toby off the chain, buy a high costed chain, iced up hockey game, dripping sauce and name, brand slave to fashion, still a slave all the same, no wife, got a ball and chain, and appalling shame, cop car, swallow cane, ghetto, hall of fame, everyone can call her name, wanted poster, wall of shame, born into this lawless place, I'm still the one, y'all gon blame, 16 years old called a case, court appointed lawyer came, getting over on your lames, boss might employ your dame, mama say she saw a change, hip hop destroy the brain, next them choppers sprayed, came to find dicks on a rate, rep your hood or come and claim, taught not to save, niggas need to learn they proper place to stay in, God's good grace, see America for what it is, a conglomerate found on hate, I wanna go higher, I wanna go higher, they call me a lot of things, but never a liar, I walk through the fire, I wanna go higher, they call me a lot of things, but never a liar,