L.I.F.E. Gives

Lyrics

[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 [?] Sequencing [?]