Times Are Hard

(verse) Nino Bless Situations arise I gotta stay focused I know this Can't walk with a chip on a shoulder like somebody owe us Shorty strapped with a 45th in this land of soldiers Its either that or forfeit his manhood to the vultures & mami's in the room screaming .. "Ay carrajo ese Guliani un diablo" But I ain't understand that shit til they threw forty hollow tips at Diallo Wut followed, a blatent fix in the midst of satin's shadow My fate, like the first time I was given a gun In the wrong hands, thats a fact when you live in the slums Drive by's, hit and runs, a child dies too often Niggas killing for funds cuz they grew up with poor sense But when you poor cents is hard to come by Liquor's still poured when sombody's son died And it rains while we cry for god Thats no response when {Times R Hard} (Hook) Jay Life But its cool and I won't let that bother me Cause this what I'm goin do Ain't no time for losing gotta keep it moving {times are hard} Ain't nothing change, if all my kid's gonna be the same Death is the only gurantee, gotta keep moving ain't not time for losing (verse) Jay Life Momma said what I'm working for To prepare for a future that won't exist And gods got his planning and he's watchin me And I believe but its like she don't realize {times are hard} And everytime I try and tell her that we ain't gotta live like this She opens up the bible and tells me that We living in the last days and thats why (times are hard) And its like that I ain't trying to pay her no mind But when these bills are due This robber money don't line up with what the bills do And what the bills so is contantly remind you that (times are hard) And I got one shot to try and make something out of nothing So when I work you can feel it, you can hear it You can understand that times are hard (Hook repeat) (verse) Joe Budden Look, I don't smoke stoges like I used to I been in the hood with the coke users O movers, dope abusers, cats that stole, boosters Those shooters that load rugers, tote lugers Hope here's useless, most losers just don't wanna juice us Face-to-face with them won't see nothing worse To be a has-been, you gotta be something first They tell me time flies when you're having fun But tends to drag when your having none Get to grabbing a gun , jacking for funds Bags and a blunt or continue to pray to Christ until the passion comes I'm just bobbing and weaving with my back on the wall Come from where I come from and you adapt to the war I'm just a product of the environment that I am in Where water's not vitamin, underdog trying to win (cheeeea) (hook)