I got my hands in the air Officer don't shoot Told them I couldn't breathe Then he gave me the boot Cause they be giving the time But never gave me the loot They got my back to the wall So what a brotha going do Took a couple of l's They say a try is a fail It's either put on the mask Or throw the work on the scale Times done change But I can't even tell It's only two ways to go It's going be freedom or jail They gave lucious a case And he couldn't even bail Judge gave him a option Go to trial or tell Now he sitting in prison While the governor fishing We gotta draw up the plan Then accomplish the mission You put a cat in the corner He going be scratching and hissing We going survive in the ghetto Cause the people ain't living So how a leader going lead If he ain't got the vision I had a dream in my head I gotta break outta prison Oh lord
I wanna live
I wanna live my life today
Make a better way for me and you
When the sun woke up I got on my knees to pray
Let the injustice Be solved and mended today
Do you live for the love
Do you live for the hate ohh
It's like you make it Then they take it And you can't get it back ooh Do you believe in the creator
Do you even know anymore
It's like you make it Then they take it And you can't get it back ooh
I wanna live
Wanna live my life today
Make a better way for me and you
The sun woke up I got on my knees to pray
Let the injustice Be solved and mended today Do you live for the love
Do you live for the hate ohh
It's like you make it Then they take it And you can't get it back oh Do you believe in the creator Do you even know anymore
Aye it's like you make it Then they take it And you can't get it back oh No justice no peace In these troubled times like these I'm down on one knee And I'm praying for what I need So whatever's in that dark Is going always come to that light So if you shot him in his back Two wrongs ain't never made it no right Tried to test my strength And I fought with all my might Took a page out of this chapter Just to reconcile my life We hate that lucious going through it We know that he ain't do it
Let's change for the better Make the world a better place United as a people Be the winners of the race And never kill the joker Cause he used to be a ace It's things outta life That you just can't replace Like the sketches to the drawing That the pencil couldn't trace Empire
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