Coolio - Life Lyrics
Intro: yo, I'm gonna talk to you about life for a minute (coolio)Verse 1: I'm going to a chain 'cause it ain't the sameI remain no geak, life's just to play the gametrying to brake this chain off my brain so I can gangsta changeswinging with your things out without a namea stranger is too much too beat but I ain't scaredI pray to god, hope he wont send me to the devils landI hope that's not in heaven, trying to get my stand outhope my hopes and dreams dont burn in flames, but I'm awarea life ain't promised, trying to avoid the dramaand live up the expectations for my dear old mamainside there's also a fool, inside the court buildingmake a million maybe a billion we can save for our childerenface to face we trying to escape that but it's too lateso I grab the world and hope I dont have to wait, to get my strikeI've seen the life and all the pain and sufferso I put my name in the bookChorus: life x4 (what life) that's life life life (that's life)Verse 2: ok now, here's the situationI was raised in a good nation and given a formal educationmy brothers and me lived in a *****ed up areawhere the innocent life is shitty, lot of grey steam, it's a pittywhen you look over the steam you can miss mego ahead and talk but if you diss methey have to come and get methey wanna pimp me from my sinpretend they're down but they're against methink I touch everyone's heart untill it's emptytake my chance as a possibility, no touchdown for a centuryregreting me, feeling me, that's why I'm waiting in the bushesif I dont than I delicate this to all pussiesput yourself in my position, you dont know what you listenin these conditions most likely a body comes up missingwhen the lights come off, when you run away like micethan think twice if you dont hear your name from the bookChorus: life x4 (what life) that's life life life (that's life)Verse 3: can you handle friends, no my life is driving me insanebut I'm a man, so I remain steady, cought up in the gamemake a deal with dicky jane for a little changerun from your home, banging with your things outtripping on everybody, cousin get your thing out, we're ready to rollwhen it comes to, show no fear when they hunt youif you have to use gun foo, they ask for the one-twoeverything but the kids n'sync, act quickly dont thinkdont sink to the level then you gonna leave with the devilbe quick in the race and try to keep a straight faceand just when there's a new song I feel like I dont belong in this placehip hop is my proffesion, so I gotta keep on guessingmake it black and white lack another in my sessioncoming from the west, microphone is my blessingso I'm testing, check it, I'm talking about life, that lifeChorus x2: life x4 (what life) that's life life life (that's life)Outro: I'm just trying to live my life, you try to live your lifeyou want me to smack your face, give me my spaceit's all about style, I know you got style, life is all about itnothing lives without life, my life, your life, coast to coast life