If I Die Lyrics

mic check one twoyou know when you lose somebody somebody that's close to yousomebody that's probably not even that close to youyou might have just knew himit's hard to put it into words you knowit's hard to say what you feelit's hard to say what you feel....I guess all wounds heal over timeyou know...but uhall i can do now is reminisce(Verse One)Look at my homeboy lying there dead in the streetHis eyes wide open and it's fucking with meI can't believe this shit it really seems unrealMy streetwise ass dog ended up getting killedWe used to laugh but now this shit ain't funny at allThinking about when my dog first started to ballTelling me I was blessed use my giftBut it was hard to stay away from that gangsta shit (so hard)Young eyes attract glitter like glueRunning with a crew doing everything they doSmoked out drinking mad dog and thunderbirdMy momma screaming but I swear I never heard a wordMy homeboy's momma cool but she smoke crackNow getting high is how she bring her son backImagine that so many kids are living thisOne day my son will lose someone and reminisceI hope it's me when I'm a hundred and threeYour homeboy getting killed that's some bad shit to seeI hope you agree and make it better for the young onesCause these momma's can't take no more dead sonsChorusCan't you see the way we live The world wouldn't spin without gangsta shitI don't know what you've been told But baby somebody told me(Only the strong will survive)If I die press play to bring me back to life(Only the strong will survive)Hey yo if I die press play to bring me back to life(Verse Two)Riding around in a hoop smoked out behind tentServing all day hitting corners getting bentTime went by quick when we was kicking itI wish that there was a way I could have predicted thisSomehow thought the shit but I can't blame myselfI just wish that death would have took somebody elseThat niggas' shorty looks just like he didSo in a sense I guess my homeboy will live againIn the eyes of his seed forever dadNo one to call on when momma is doing badMad at the world for the pain he feelsI pray to god that his momma shows him what's realChorus(Verse Three)Every day I thank god for watching over meIf I didn't have rapping I don't know where I would beTrying to move a key strong armed robberyMy destiny could have been an early death of meJust to be alive pushing twenty-fiveI lived to talk about the shit many didn't surviveAll I ask is that we think about the lives passed awayNever to see another sunny day>From rocks in the hand to keys in the vanNo more being broke waiting on the postmanCost more than the time that you put into itNow you got the cheese why the fuck you still do itGreed a need to speed away your precious timePlaya use your mind find yourself another grindIf not for yourself... for the kids sake Cause they'll all be where were all at todayChorusMan oh manIt's wild what these streets are doing to us You know what I'm saying?I was thinking I was telling my homieIf I were to name all the people that I knewThat was not here with us no moreIt would take a whole album You know what I'm saying?So i wanna say rest in peace to my homeboy pinkhouseRest in peace to my homeboy dice Who showed me much love in the short time i knew himRest in peace to my homeboy NinoMuch love from the hood we still ride with ya