Gotta Survive

[Ma$e talking] I dont regret nothing that I have ever done At this point I dont owe nobody an explanation [Ma$e] Man, they love you when you up Kick you when you down Look around, VH1 man, where are they now Life is amusing, nobody like to see you cruising But everybody like to see you losing So I stop despise, on top of lies And if it prophesized I'll be ostracized One day, I lost my rodium on the day I hit the podium Now im back on top and salty like sodium A gift to this world man, wrap me with a ribbon Why do you look for a dead among the living Some thought I was crazy, some said I was missing Some said I was lazy, some said I was different I was so loaded, that everybody floated But once I got the notice then I got focused And then I saw the motive, so everybody rode it So I did the way wrote it and live it the way I quote it (come On) [Hook] Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me When I'm down at the back, just keep it real Gotta survive, gotta survive Gotta Survive in this life that's being given to me So I try and I try to be really true When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me Gotta survive, gotta survive [Ma$e] Hold up, trying to tell me what I'm not Pull up in the 'Bach, not I'm all of the sudden hot Now they want to stop just to look at what I got Thought they want my home man, left me out to rot So I had to make it on my own, take it on my own I wanted out the hood I had to 'scape it on my own Believe me now, it's easy now Cause everybody see me now and I'm on TV now But it started out with low budget Then I took it around the world the folks love it In the beggining man, my life it was so rugged But now I shine like a gold nugget, cause I made the most of it I know how you feeling man, I was weary Some days I used to sit there, my eyes all teary Thinking to myself, do anybody hear me Now I know, you making it out is not a theory (come on) [Hook] [Ma$e] I've been laughed at, talked about, ridiculed But M Dot Betha is still not a bitter dude And you know it's not coincidence, that me and you is not so intimate I can't fake, I don't shake, I don't break I don't lose, I dont use, I dont groove I never lacked and I'm never going back I'm nothing you ever sorrow I'm telling you that I'm immortal [Hook, plus] Got to, got to survive Keep your head held high Got to, got to survive Keep your head to the sky Got to, got to survive We can make it everytime Got to, got to survive Gotta survive, gotta survive [Hook with Ma$e talking over it] You know there is nothing in this world that could seperate me From what I believe, from what I've achieved All of this is because of Him And I'm telling you now, as much as you all don't want to hear this I could do nothing to myself It's all through Him (2X) So all around the world You don't even know success until you know Him And him is Jesus, Jesus