Yeah, what's happening my peoples? (They got us out here struggling)/ Yeah, I know it's hard out here man. But ain't nobody said it was gonna be easy. You know what I mean? Together we stand (They got us out here struggling)/
Divided we fall. What's happenin ya'll? What's crackin?
-Layzie Bone-
Ain't nothing changed since I was a kid/
Nothing but the days, months and the years/
Putting it down and keeping it serious/
Trying to keep from shedding these tears/
You would have thought that it would have got better/
Making that rapping and doing these shows/
But to me it only got worse/
Close to worse and nobody knows/
The real steam, the reason why, I do the things that I do/
Getting so high, drinking these brews/
Feeling like I've got nothing to lose/ I payed my dues and the Lord blessed me/
But now I pray to save my mother, and my brother/
Lord please help me/
Heavy loads should be for heavy people/
But niggas just trying to provide for their family/
Facing constent evil/
And we need our higher powers/
So what I'm going to do is keep my prayers to the sky for you/
Won't tell no lie for you, but nigga I'm willing to die for you/
Undivided, reunited/
With the fist in the pyramid/
Right about now I'm about to tip my lid/
Somebody tell me what this is/
A dream, a reality, my sanity about to give in/
Got the fame and the fortune but this ain't living nigga
-Felecia-Chorus-
This ain't livin', but it's the only thing I know/
This ain't livin', I've got to find a higher road/
This ain't livin', but it's the only thing I know/
This ain't livin', I've got to find a higher road
-Felecia-
From the past, the present through, I'm talking about the struggle/
The shit hit me so hard I be swearing I'm seeing double/
Sometimes it makes me wonder how I hold and maintain/
No matter which direction always seems against the grain/
What to do, what to do? I'm praying for solution/
In the course that I be kicking have me in a institution/
Trying to rid this life, of one I didn't chose/
How you gonna fuck me, I payed my dues/
Every minute of my life I be trying to focus/
Just when I think I got it someone make me know it/
Ain't the way I need to be/
And my eyes way heavy but/
I keep on pushing 'cause I ain't livin' for nothing
-Chorus-
-Layzie Bone-
On a quest for peace, on a quest for peace/
But I can't escape these wicked streets
Got me to realise that I could jeopardize/
A chance for my kids to be/
What they wanna be and what they could be/
And I ain't trying to be that hoody/
But I wish somebody understood me so they could see the good in me/
Trying to do thangs to make the world better/
And everybody hittin' me to be doing what I'm doing/
Strickly out here chasin this cheddar/
Ain't nothin' free ain't nothin' fair to me/
So all in all it's only me/
Take care of me and you should be doing the same thang/
My niggas complain'/
Trying to do to much explainin'/
When the key is really maintainin'/
Waitin' for the Lord to stop the rainin'/
Playing it safe we got to check ourselves/
Before we wreck ourselves/
First we got to respect ourselves/
'Cause a nigga won't give us nothin' else/
Don't sit there and talk me to death/
Go and get off your thang/
I'm a see a change when you make a change/
I believe I know the game/
Enduring our pain cuz you got to take it/
And if you want it you'll make it/
See the drama and shake it/
Get your mind righ
-Chorus-
-Felecia-
He's on drugs 'cause he's unhealthy/
Family's splitting up 'cause they're struggling/
Somebody out there, don't you feel the need?/
Feeling hopeless 'cause my ends don't meet/
I'm lookin' for a better day/
I be praying for a better day/
I've been lookin' for a better way
-Chorus-
Recorded for the Mo Thugs Family album Mo Thugs Family 3: The Mothership