[ Featuring Mylez ]
Ah man
It's crazy man
Dow Jones going low
People money going low
Everybody self esteem going low
It's like we not living man
C'mon
Gotta suffer from the life that I live
Before I live it, I feel it ending
Can I live?
Can I live? Can I live?
Can I live?
Can I live? Can I live?
Everyday I feel like I'm dying
I keep on trying
Lord I'm crying
Can I live?
Can I live? Can I live?
Can I live?
Can I live? Can I live?
Yo, my life is ahead of me
It's like every time I step out of my house I gotta pack some sort weaponry
Problems can never leave
I need a wheel of fortune 'cause like the game show, I'm living life in jeopardy
Hollywood squares don't know what it's like
They getting everything they wanted and they price is right
And I just wanna be a millionaire
But this life is a game that's hard to play, the rules ain't never fair
I'm living a life of poverty, people just can't believe
Money is air and right now, I can't breathe
My pockets suffocate, got people that love to hate
Land of opportunity, haters tryna close the gates
It's hard times we living in, things evident
The only bills I wanna see is the former president
We in turmoil and I ain't smiling
Wearing conflicts on my chest like an African diamond
Gotta suffer from the life that I live
Before I live it, I feel it ending
Can I live?
Can I live? Can I live?
Can I live?
Can I live? Can I live?
Everyday I feel like I'm dying
I keep on trying
Lord I'm crying
Can I live?
Can I live? Can I live?
Can I live?
Can I live? Can I live?
It's hard living when it's death all around me
And police acting dog status, everyday hounding me
Feeling like the dirt, is being black, I ain't proud to be
Suffer from envious snakes, feeling police brutality
This is normality
Of a black male, when a cop assume everyday you making crack sales
Your own momma tell you in life, you gonna fail
And your fathers not around, a mystery like story tales
"Money ain't a thing" that's Jermaine Dupri
'Cause money mean every damn thing to me
And you can go ahead and wish me well
I'm too broke to throw money in a wishing well
I need it for living well
Forget the cuffs that's on my wrist, I need the watch
Wanna be the one on your screen and I don't wanna watch
Wanna be the one to succeed and I don't wanna fail
Can I breathe? I'm waiting, I'm waiting to exhale
Gotta suffer from the life that I live
Before I live it, I feel it ending
Can I live?
Can I live? Can I live?
Can I live?
Can I live? Can I live?
Everyday I feel like I'm dying
I keep on trying
Lord I'm crying
Can I live?
Can I live? Can I live?
Can I live?
Can I live? Can I live?
Minimum wage got us starving, we losing the ways
So if you thinking this is living, I'm thinking it ain't
The hood infested with the creatures that's willing to hate
And I am not a doctor, got no patience, I can't wait
Tired of hunger, the pain got me in killing mood
Forget Iraq, I just wanna rack up food
Think the economy is good? You are gassed up
Rent high as hell, stock low and the gas up
Con Edison never keeping the lights on
Guess my check is the neck, the governments a python
First it sell promise then it will asphyxiate you
Since the Garden of Eden, this is what snakes do
So Mr. President, this is what it is
When you're making a decision homie, think about the kids
From your health, raise taxes up, look at how we live
We all asking the same question but can I live?
Gotta suffer from the life that I live
Before I live it, I feel it ending
Can I live?
Can I live? Can I live?
Can I live?
Can I live? Can I live?
Everyday I feel like I'm dying
I keep on trying
Lord I'm crying
Can I live?
Can I live? Can I live?
Can I live?
Can I live? Can I live?
Gotta suffer from the life that I live
Before I live it, I feel it ending
Can I live?
Can I live? Can I live?
Can I live?
Can I live? Can I live?
Everyday I feel like I'm dying
I keep on trying
Lord I'm crying
Can I live?
Can I live? Can I live?
Can I live?
Can I live? Can I live?