(TQ) the game (Layzie Bone. You can overcome one day.) What you make of it, is what you can take from it. Understand. Whatever your hustle is get it on, my nigga. Live this alone, my nigga. Heard?
(Cause you can overcome one day ...)
-TQ-
I heard a story about twenty three years old/ And I heard from somebody that I used to know (I used to know)/ Spendin' days lonely with no place to go, but to the corner for a little more love/ I'm talkin' 'bout a youngster that didn't understand (Understand) all the shit that come with bein' a man/ Just wanna Hoo-Ride to shorten his own life/ Yes, it's true, you gotta crawl before you walk, unless you wanna crawl again/ So you see, it ain't right if I don't get mine one day
-TQ-Chorus-
I can't get no scrill at home, gotta get gone, and we don't fit, no, gotta stay low, gotta stay strong and get my own dough, bring it back home, throw my cares away/ Cause we all gon' ball one day/ We all gon' ball one day
-TQ-
Sittin' with my homies on 120th every night drinkin' on a forty when I should've been home (Shoulda had my ass at home)/ And everybody told me that the game don't last long (No)/ Leave it alone, before you're long gone/ But they talkin' to a youngster with a plan to roll (Plan to roll) has some paper before he's twenty years old/ And I guess y'all wonder at my video (Don't yall wonder?), and remeber when I told ya so (I told yall so)/ Don't come tell your shit done came free/ Well, I gotta live my life for me (Only me)/ But didn't do it like you said, but still gotta pay, one day
-Chorus-
-Layzie Bone-
(TQ in the game. Just keep your head up, bottom line. Keep your head up. And you can overcome one day.) I've been on a mission since I can remember, runnin' this race, on a chase for paper/ Eludin' the laws, and dodgin' these haters/ Hopin' these wicked ass streets don't take us/ Everyday hustlin', grindin', strugglin', and climblin' to the top of the pile/ Since '89, been down for mine, H2'n it/ And it ain't no stoppin' me now/ My mission for bein' a baller was deeply rooted in the blood. Had no choice to become a thug, mama was broke and that's how it was/ Lil' man wants fortune, out here servin', heaven woulda thought, what's the time of my life?/ Little did I know, right around the corner, I would have a lot of lonely nights/ Layin' in my cell, tossin' and turnin/ Mad at the world for all the wrong reasons/ And my demons wasn't leavin', til I really got to know Steven/ Even then, I still didn't get the picture/ Cause a nigga came home, did the same old shit, got shot in the head, sixteen, tryin' to get richer/ Started listenin' to what my mom was sayin/ And she said, "Baby boy, you know it's a better way. Always strive for brighter days. And even tho', you know none of us'll be perfect, bow your head and pray, cause you can overcome one day, day."