Ways Of The World lyrics

Song information

Artist: Lil' Zane
Album: Young World: The Future

Lyrics

Money is manditory, my game is self explanitory
I hit the blunt as I proceed to tell my ghetto stories
I'm in to deep, for my peeps, bring them shovels for me
Some niggaz strapped wit their gats tryin to kill your homies
Didn't know me but met the heat when they ran up on me
Left his wife and 2 kids at the crib lonely
Got in the way of a stray bullet when I passed
Trying to retaliate on beef that happened in the past
Ways of the world how will I last when the economy crash
I'm goin all out gettin my cash
While spend mine open, wit my eyes on the world
Ghettos and jail cells gave me stories to tell
Body swells from the evil smells that I inhale
Evil set me up to fail make my life so real
People take precaution, time is being lost my souls series to scar
I'm fightin demons off, its the ways of the world

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Eventhough it hurts my chest
I'm a spark til I lose my breath
Livin the sin since life began
Coming all way out the water to get oxygen
Please father help me breath again, at ease again

Lookin at myself in the mirror, I took a second to think
Memories of being babies givin milk to drink
Without a worry at mind, we would play all the time
Name callin and b-ballin took up most of our time
We were hard headed and ya'll said it
From our parents to our teachers, and even preachers couldn't reach us
I said my prayers
I gave my momma gray hairs
She lives in fear
The thought of me not being their got her worried scared
They say I look just like my father without the beared
They should of named that nigga magic, he dissapeard
A couple months out of the year, he reappears
Its all the same ain't nothin changed, you still my nigga
Don't hold a grudge, give me love
I'm on my own
I'm kinda sober from a broken home
Wondering what's goin on, did I deserve this
Living in atlanta got us little nigga nervous
Mama tried to feed us all, until she got laid off
Had the rats paid off, now we all laid off

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Duckin the gun shots,at the age of 13
There was a war zone, so you choose your team
When the war strikes you better had a heart to fight
Or get lost in the world when you loose your life
I prefer to live long, so I read and pray
Surviving day to day, runnin the streets astray
Living life for myself no company
Prepare to meet the heat when you come for me
And when I die, burn alive, thats a wish of mine
I know that heaven when you's only make it hard to find
And when you make it they gone take it, that's a must you know
Don't think of gettin to the top without a problem or so
I take precaution because the evils gotta hit on me
I've been a bad boy but mommy don't you quit on me
They built a jail so when we rise they can crush our dreams
Two of the largest in the industry, erased from the scene
And I don't wanna be a target so I got with a team
They gotta go around their body and do things you've never seen
Know what I mean
Take it deep like submarines, that's what we do
Only human, tryin to get through the world with no confusion

I close my eyes, so can't escape the pain of misery
Prayin that you will rescue me, these are the ways of the world
And if I had to choose between life and losing my sanity
Go with the streets keep callin me
These are the ways of the world