how long can it last
Singer:ugk
i know you don't condone the things i be doin out here in these streets
i pray that you can overlook
the wrong that i had done in my life. i don't know no other way to survive out here
i got a whole bunch of people dependin on me. just walk with me. walk with me. busslin and gamblin
bricks i'm out here handlin
i'm pimpin and i'm payin the rent
didn't choose this dirty game
this dirty game it chose me
they'll get it from him if they don't get it from me
so i get cross-country with that thang
least mama know i didn't die in vain
cause i put up sum from every sale
so all my chil'ren can live well
but just put me in wood grain lane deville
i wonder sometime how life would be
if it was no such thing as d
but then i put that sweet down
cause that bullshit don't apply to me
cause out here on the real streets
a dreamer always stay sleep
cause out here the strong survive
and now they didn't die from thankin weak
still tryna get right with god
tonight if i get down on my knees and ask the lord to forgive me
you thank he gon' hear me? cause tomorrow i'm still gon be slangin keyyyyys. lord
i juuuust can't give it up
i'm riskin all out in the streets
see i was born in the ghetto manye i was raised in the hood
and unless you lived it yourself
it just can't be understood
people think hustlin is cool
they don't understand hustlers only hustlin to survive
they wished they lived in the 'burbs
wished they didn't have to hang
out on corners in low-income house in projects and slang
they wish their daddy was home
and they didn't have to grow up to be dealers and thugs
po' children got aspirations and dreams just like the wealthy
but it's hard when that environment you live in ain't healthy
and you live with all this anger and frustration inside
don't let nobody tell you what you can or you can't do
just cause they funky ass couldn't do it - they ain't you
you can be who you wanna be
just put your faith in the lord
now that's keepin it trill
i juuuust can't give it up
i'm riskin all out in the streets
uhhhhh! i wonder if it's a heaven up there for real g's
for all the niggaz in the game that's been slangin cheese
for all them boys on them swangers and the fifth wheel
i'm out here riskin my life
niggaz shife but i stay trill
i wonder if the lord love me
but i'm so caught up in my thug deep
followin me around for three
niggaz couldn't catch me so they hit me with conspiracy
you know that that's the other level of the game
ain't got shit on me but some niggaz said my naaaaame. so here they cooome
wish i can hug my momma and kiss my baby girl
i know it's a better place than livin in this dirty woooorld
i juuuust can't give it up
i'm riskin all out in the streets
some al-ways cryin the blues. yeah. some people win
some al-ways bein misused. yeeaaaaaaaahhhh-yeaaha. what am i supposed to do
lord?. i'm tryin my best out here
but it's getting kinda hard for me
what am i supposed to do?
what am i supposed to do?
can you wrap your arms around me
lord right noooooowww. i need you
cause i'm goin and livin too fast
yeah-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhh. oooooohhhhhhhhh
how long can it last? i can't get up
can you help me? can you help me
mmmmmmmm. mmmmmm. hmmmmmmmmmmm. hmmmmmmmm.