you see to live is to suffer

to survive, well that's to find meaning in the suffering



chorus

ay yo i'm slippin, fallin cant get up

ay yo i'm slippin, fallin cant get up

ay yo i'm slippin, fallin i gots ta get up

get me back on my feet so i can tear shit up

ay yo i'm slippin, fallin cant get up

ay yo i'm slippin, fallin cant get up

ay yo i'm slippin, fallin i gots ta get up

get me back on my feet so i can tear shit up



I been through mad different phases like Masons

to find my way & now I know that happy days are not far away

If I'm strong enough I'll live long enough to see my kids

doing something more constructive with they time

than bids I know because I been there

now I'm in there sit back & look

at what it took for me to get there

First came the *ooooh* the drama with my mama

she got on some fly shit *What* til I split

and said that I'ma be that seed

that doesn't need much to succeed

strapped with mad greed and a heart that doesn't bleed

I'm ready for the world or at least I thought I was

baggin' *Uhh* when I caught a buzz

for thinking about how short I was

Going too fast it wouldn't last but yo I couldn't tell

group homes & institutions, prepare my ass for jail

They put me in a situation forcin' me to be a man

when I was just learnin' to stand without a helpin' hand

Damn, was it my fault, somethin' I did

to make a father leave his first kid at 7 doin' my first bid?

Back on the scene at 14 with a scheme

to get more cream than I'd ever seen in a dream

and by all means I will be living high off the hog

and I never gave a fuck about much but my dog

That's my only *ooooh* I had offered my last

Just another little *Come on* headed nowhere fast



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That ain't the half *Arf* get's worse as I get older

actions become bolder heart got colder

chip on my shoulder that I dared a *Uhh* to touch

didn't need a click cause I scared a *Uh huh* that much

One deep went to for kicks

catchin' vicks throwin' bricks gettin by bein' slick

used to get high to get by used to have to *ooooh*

in the morning before I get fly

I ate something a couple of forties made me hate somethin'

I did some *Arf* now I'm ready to take something

3 years later showing signs of stress

didn't keep my hair cut or give a fuck *Come on* how I dressed

I'm possessed by the darker side livin' the cruddy life

*What* like this kept a nigga with a bloody knife

wanna make records but I'm *Wheeew'd* up

I'm slippin' I'm fallin' I can't get up



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Wasn't long before I hit rock bottom

*ooooh* it was like damn look how that *how that* kinda got him

Open like a window no more Indo look at a video

sayin' to myself that could've been yo on the TV

believe me it could be done somethin's got to give

it's got to change cause I've got a son

I've got to do the right thing for shorty

and that means no more getting high drinking forties

So I get back lookin' type slick again

Fake *What* jump back on my *Uhh uh huh* again

Nothin' but love for those that know how it feel

& much respect to all my *Come on* that kept it real

Be strong kept a from doin' wrong

*Uhh* who they is and this is yo *What uhh* song

and to my boo who stuck with a *arf* through

all the bullshit you'll get yours because it's due



Chorus



can't get up...I gots to get up

This is from the heart baby, don't get it twisted