Gotta do what I gotta do

Do what I gotta do

Cause cash rules everything around me



If you take a look around

Take a look at was goin' down

If you can see what I see, baby

And why act the way I do

Cause you can't understand

And you don't really know a man

Until you've been where I've been

Loose the things I've lost

But can you change the way that you look at me



All that you can say to me

the things I just can say no more

I'm not the same guy that I used to be

We don't even talk no more



Don't I get up everyday

Don't I bring home all my pay

Don't I do whatever it takes

If I could just get my baby out tha ghetto



Gotta do what I gotta do

Move when it's time to move

See who I gotta see

Cause cash rules everything around me

Do what I gotta do

Be who I gotta be

But it's not enough for you

Cause we can live without enough money



She is afraid to get involved

She ain't willin to fall in love

It's such a risk to take and a big mistake

By the way I make my livin'

But I let you know from the go

That's the way it is

And that's the way it goes

It's the only life I know

But you can't do nuthing to change that baby



All that you can say to me

the things I just can say no more

I'm not the same guy that I used to be

We don't even talk no more



Don't I get up everyday

Don't I bring home all my pay

Don't I do whatever it takes

If I could just get my baby out tha ghetto



Gotta do what I gotta do

Move when it's time to move

See who I gotta see

Cause cash rules everything around me

Do what I gotta do

Be who I gotta be

But it's not enough for you

Cause we can live without enough money



Gotta do what I gotta do

Move when it's time to move

See who I gotta see

Cause cash rules everything around me

Do what I gotta do

Be who I gotta be

But it's not enough for you

Cause we can live without enough money



Just try and understand me

Look at it from my point of view

Nuthin in this world is free

So I do what I gotta do

Didn't I give you, the big cars n tha big rimes

I kept you, less then

The finer things, baby what you think

It was coming from stop actin dumb

I knew you knew, but you played it off

I play it too, like I had it all

I was your man gave you everything

So don't act like you don't understand



Gotta do what I gotta do

Move when it's time to move

See who I gotta see

Cause cash rules everything around me

Do what I gotta do

Be who I gotta be

But it's not enough for you

Cause we can live without enough money