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'Cause every day life's like a battle
Some survive, others get killed
So every night we pray to God
Because we know that life's so real
When I wake up in the morning
Face my problems all alone
Gotta hold on (Gotta hold on, baby)
Gotta hold on
I'm poverty stricken, visualizin' the life I'm livin'
Thinkin' I can get paid in many ways with no restrictions
Livin' in this drug infested jurisdiction
I'm driven to a life of crime
Wishin' that this wasn't the life of mine
I find myself affiliated with niggas who been humiliated
For years tryin' to get rehabilitated
The government got us sufferin', strugglin'
Ain't gettin' no blessings
Sometimes I have to ask this question
Are you a nigga? Check your reflection in the mirror
It gettin' clearer, so your complexion is the fearer
Many men, that's why many sin 'cause they assume
Sit back and peep the evil that all these people consume
'Cause every day life's like a battle
Some survive, others get killed
So every night we pray to God
Because we know that life's so real
When I wake up in the morning
Face my problems all alone
Gotta hold on (Gotta hold on, baby)
Gotta hold on
I'm countin' my blessings
'Cause half of my childhood partners fell victim to Smith & Wessons
Got arrested or HIV infected
While brothers wanna blast folks
While politicians crack jokes at the black folks
We lack hope, it ain't no unity
'Cause blacks be killin' blacks in my community
It's mutiny, so I pack a gat and practice scrutiny
Just to eat, kids sell crack before the age of puberty
Then you send 'em off to the clink
And why you think they ship the dope over on the border?
So it can be a slaughter, kill our sons and daughters
Mama always wanted me to be a fancy lawyer
But the fast change trained my brain to be a baller
Nigga, I had to get it, get it
'Cause life's a hustle, hustle
Until the day we stay paid, we gots to struggle, struggle
So to my people on the corner, on the blocks, on the streets
Nothin' in this world comes for free
'Cause every day life's like a battle
Some survive, others get killed
So every night we pray to God
Because we know that life's so real
When I wake up in the morning
Face my problems all alone
Gotta hold on (Gotta hold on, baby)
Gotta hold on
Lord have mercy, it hurts me just to ask, but will I last?
Every day my expression, depression, headed the wrong direction
I'm stressin' through a test
These cigarettes just keep me when I'm down
Smokin' cancer 'cause my answers can't be found
'Round here every year we die younger and I wonder
What kind of siege is my city under?
They finally made it legal for white people to pack and put me away
Ready for combat every day 'cause Houston boostin' pistol play
I don't know if I'ma make it another day
My life's so real, I'm packin' steel
And feel that it's no other way
My mother say, "Boy, be strong
I know it hurts, it's gon' get worse
But to survive you gotta hold on"
'Cause every day life's like a battle
Some survive, others get killed
So every night we pray to God
Because we know that life's so real
When I wake up in the morning
Face my problems all alone
Gotta hold on (Gotta hold on, baby)
Gotta hold on
Lil' O, Born Unclick, you know what I'm sayin'?
We wanna live, our life too real
You know, to be worried about, you know
Flexin' about that Southside, Northside
Or where you from, you know what I'm sayin'?
We done hustled too hard, we about our paper
If you ain't about your paper
Me and you don't even need to be around each other
You know what I'm sayin'?
We got somethin' to live for, baby
We tryin' to bubble, we gon' live lavish
We gon' do this, you know what I'm sayin'?
We don't got time for all that, baby
Life too real for me to play games
What? Uh, what?
Born Un, Born Un
Lil' O, uh
Southside H-Town, Northside H-Town
It's goin' down