Way It Goes

[Verse 1] Look into my eyes, know you see a thug Cause I dropped out of school to smoke weed and sell drugs When you listen to me speak, uneducated Cause I talk with Ebonics and I never graduated So I'm a lost cause, gun in my drawers Live another day, seem I got to break the law Say this another way to put food on my plate My daughter still hungry at the minimum wage So you take away my days, put me in a cell Pray every night, think I should burn in hell? Lie to me as a kid, say I had a future But I learned the truth when my mama rent was due Said you was being honest, gave me a false promise So I depend on nothing but this bottle and some chronic Told me that if I change, I might just see dollars But instead I got change and all it was, was copper [Hook x2] When does it end, God, I don't really know Might be the state pen' or getting buried in a hole But that's just the way it go That's just the way it go That's just the way it go That's just the way it go [Verse 2] Even died in a dream No niggas doing life, some ain't make 18 Young whores in the hood take lies before they start Robbed of self-esteem, now, they ain't got a heart Staring in the mirror, hearing voices in my head Saying: "Take advantage cause you're 'posed to been dead" Staying on a mission for the nickels and the dimes Blowing on chronic while I'm peeking out the blinds Sign of the time, ain't no respect Can't leave the house if I ain't got the Tec At night, I can't sleep, like a Vietnam vet Can't trust my own blood, everybody is a threat Paranoid, keep the heater off safety Roll my own weed, nobody can't lace me World crazy, lost my mind But I'd rather be here than locked doing time [Hook x2]