Good Life

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 Yeah, this is the story
 Of wealth, cash, whips, chips, bitches and blunts
 Must be the good life right?
 Check this yo...
 I got a call from my girl last week
 She telling me about that time of the month and how it may not come
 Dropped the phone right before she said I might have a son
 And I started asking God how come
 I got dreams I ain't reached yet – ends that ain't meet yet
 When it comes to being a man, shit I'm barely getting my feet wet
 Trying to hit reset knee deep in debt
 Trying to figure how to feed a mouth that ain't got teeth yet
 How the hell am I gonna show a child to be a man
 When I'm twenty-two without a clue on how to take a stand
 Against this system when it's just us, wanna show him justice
 But last year I was just in cuffs
 What the fuck am I supposed to do when he's telling me 'Dad I need some food?'
 I'm looking down at my stomach and mine is grumbling too
 What can I tell him when he's twenty-two
 And he's asking me what the fuck I was thinking when mommy's tummy grew?
 Was I scared, was I getting prepared?
 Or did I even think of leaving her without a father's care?
 Should I tell him that it's hell here and life ain't fair?
 Or should I try to make a change when he's pulling on my leg?
 (Show me) and he keeps on telling me to
 Show me
 (Show me the good life)
 Show me
 (Show me the good)
 Won't somebody show me there's a few things my poppa never told me
 Maybe cause the stone still rolling, no moss yet
 It's a few things my momma never told me to mold me
 But her soul is so golden the way she floss it
 And I ain't mad at their secrets though
 It's a hard sell to tell a young child about your deepest low
 But I done seen through they weakness so
 I understand a little bit on how the defeat can slow
 You so, far down that you meekness grow
 And everyday gets colder when the breezes blow
 Grand momma sat me down and said, 'you need to know
 Boy you a little light in this world, let your heat just glow
 Have patience some things take time
 And ain't no limit to the goals that you could hold in your mind'
 Lift the soul when you crying 'till you reach the gates of heaven
 Like your chariot is carrying children who going blind
 And you going to get their sight back, when all they see is night black
 Believe in everything that you doing and just like that
 Things will happen for you, keep shining them rays
 It's bright enough to spread grace over a million graves
 Over a million slaves to bring honor to the elders
 Who held us away from danger when the danger would have killed us
 They never failed us but they souls have peace
 And follow in their steps, you got brothers to keep
 In this good life
 Check it out, it's so much I can show you
 Without rolling through Beverly Hills
 Without money, cars, clothes, or even ecstasy pills
 I don't need weed to ease me when I'm stressing for real
 I just close my eyes and try to think how heaven feels
 Just to feel good again, even though I know when I open them
 It's back to the hood again, where kids hold chrome with them
 Just to feel protected, cause the videos are showing them
 How to shoot fools and take their dough from them
 That's why I try to give my soul to them in lyrics I spit
 They rejected cause they stressing for material shit
 They're getting sick and tired of fighting over serial gifts
 Cause they notice bitches go head over heels for the whips
 And the chains, and the chips, and the range and the clips
 In the guns and the women and the fun living in cribs in the burbs
 Fuck the slums, they want funds and they heard flippin' birds is
 The ticket and they get it and run with it
 Some slip and fall, others pause see the outcome and crawl
 On the road for some change, cause the game is too hard
 To play straight by the rules
 I'm trying to stay out the news
 And make cake to buy food
 Fuck jewels I think my soul glows bright enough
 And fuck whips I learn more when I ride the bus
 And fuck gold it's bad enough that we fight for bucks
 And fuck hoes cause in the end I need a wife to love
 Plus heaven is the life for us so God...