Shit, every muthafucking night I sit here And be thinking about everything I could've done but didn't do But I guess life's a bitch You win some, you lose some But once you lose, you're out Heat up the 9 with my bleeding heart And start shit with a vengeance Of blazing nights With gun fights and drive-bys Out of line Gees with the P's and the G nikes Graduated from the game of street life And what it feels like when a soldiers gone, it's on Retaliating stay bucking the chrome I'm gone, from sipping anything with liquor in it Trying to maintain Thoughts of muthafucking homeboy to the game And it's on even the hard fall when the gun buck You're fucked even the strong fall, do or die We down to ride on any enemy sidelines With dirty nine's passing the time and getting high And though we cry later smile now Until the grave or the pen I put it down for my closest friends A yo Scrappy and Wacky and Cricket That's doing the hard times Since you've got my homeboys heart Well now you've got mine Street life Is the only life I know Street life We're so far away from home Street life Got a thousand miles to go Street life We're so far away from home Street life it's hard I mean it's really hard for us people That really can't live an ordinary life That we were given Cause we was set in the ghetto We really didn't like have no other choice And the people you go around with I guess you just not gonna be like They say the money is for nothing And the chick is for free That's why I'm rapping, attacking the streets I'm stacking the G's, I'm bagging up D's I'm dragging on D's, I'm ragging MC's I'm young and I'm free, I'm ready to bleed I was a young buck, black laced up chucks Smoking fat P dogs and rolling laised up blunts Went down the wrong path With praying hands for time Visions of bloodbaths On how my old man passed I lost a strong man who left a heavenly kid Left me with watery eyes Man waterfalls down my chin I call this versatile rock Make sure it won't be forgotten So if you know me or not Or if you know me a lot This for my mother of mine My heart and my soul She started my world She gave me my bones And gave me my home My and my right hand man The only brother of mine Give him my left hand too He never left me behind I talk that road dog shit! For fools that bleed they veins I talk that road dog shit! For those that cry for days I talk that road dog shit! For dogs behind the cage I talk that road dog shit Until I leave the game The game of life Woke up jumped out my bed I'm in a man made hell Shit I think I'm better off dead I pray for the lord that forgave me No choice I'm asking you to save me I'm only 18 so I'm a dumb fuck Trying hard to survive without getting stuck But that's the life and it's me I guess Ese's way deep, shaved 2 or the less Can't run away from another trigger Pimps, hoes, crackheads and drug dealers I'm dumping for my strikes And tagging up walls And getting respect as a young dog It ain't nothing like the street life You better be strapped with your dump Cause life's a bitch, right? But I guess I gots to handle mine Ima hand my nine and let the hands of time Street life Is the only life I know Street life We're so far away from home Street life Got a thousand miles to go Street life We're so far away from home See the same ones That were going through the same thing I was going through We just chose to do it together And I'm proud of being a homie Fuck what they say About us being trouble makers And calling us outlaws because we carry guns See we choose to take the problems into our own hands And the victim isn't behind bars In the muthafucking streets Street life Is the only life I know Street life We're so far away from home Got a thousand miles to go It's that street life, you know