Jay-Z Lyrics
"This
Can't Be Life"
(feat. Beanie Sigel, Scarface)
[Jay-Z]
Geah..
whassup?
Where's all my street niggaz, project niggaz
Real niggaz, worldwide
Let's
reflect.. e'rybody got a story
We all ghetto B - here's mine
Geah
See
I was -- born in sewage, born to make bomb music
Flow tight like I was born
Jewish
Used the streets as a conduit - I kept arms
38 longs inside my mom's
Buick
At any given moment Shawn could lose it, be on the news
Iron cuffs
- arms through it; or stuffed with embalmin fluid
Shit, I'm goin through it
- mom dukes too
Tears streamin down her pretty face, she got her palms to it
My
life is gettin too wild
I need to bring some sort kinda calm to it
Bout
to lose it; voices screamin "Don't do it!"
It's like '93, '94, bout
the year
that Big and Mag dropped; and "Illmatic" rocked
outta
every rag drop, and the West had it locked
Everybody doin 'em, I'm still scratchin
on the block
like "Damn; I'ma be a failure"
Surrounded by thugs,
drugs, and drug - paraphenalia
Cops courts, and their thoughts is to derail
us
Three time felons in shorts with jealous thoughts
Tryin figure where
your mail is, guesstimate the weight you sellin
So they can send shots straight
to your melon; wait!
It gets worse, baby momma water burst
Baby came out
stillborn, still I gotta move on
Though my heart still torn, life gone from
her womb
Don't worry, if it was meant to be, it'll be -- soon
[Chorus:
Jay-Z]
This can't be life, this can't be love
This can't be right, there's
gotta be more, this can't be us
This can't be life, this can't be love
This
can't be right, there's gotta be more, this can't be us
[Beanie
Sigel]
Chill dog
Second oldest born, from Michelle Brown my mother
Hell
bound, grew with two sisters and one brother
Pop wasn't around, so many stories
that's another
I'm thinkin damn; how my older sister gon' make me tougher
When
steel sharpens steel, I'ma keep it real
I'm tired of tryin to hide my pain
behind the syrups and pills
Dead to the world, stretched out like a corpse
for real
Y'all niggaz thinkin what y'all readin in The Source is real
What
my life like, you lookin at the source, it's real
What your life like? Mine
dog, of course it's real
Passin judgment, you niggaz second-guessin Beans
Cause
you don't eat swine don't make you Amin
Dog you know a couple suras, out the
Qur'an
I guess you all on your din and I ain't on mine
Stop that Akki, 'fore
I send shots though your body
Make 'em feel feel hell on earth before Allah
drop thee
I feel the line's drawn here, nuttin more can stop me
Till them
feds pick me up, or them boys pop me
There's only three things that make Mac
not act like Beans
Amatullah Tisha, Po Aldin, Samir Amin
My seeds dog, gotta
teach 'em that before I leave dog
Shit I know that I'ma see 'em when I leave
dog
I come back in the afterlife
Like fuck it I done touched hell twice;
what's the meanin?
[Chorus]
[Scarface]
Yeah..
uhh..
Now as I walk into the studio, to do this with Jig'
I got a phone
call from one of my nigs
Said my homeboy Reek, he just lost one of his kids
And
when I heard that I just broke into tears
And see in the second hand; you don't
really know how this is
But when it hits that close to home you feel the pain
at the crib
So I called mine, and saddened my wife with the bad news
Now
we both depressed, countin our blessings cause Brad's two
Prayin for young
souls to laugh atlife through the stars
Lovin your kids just like you was ours
And
I'm hurtin for you dog; but ain't nobody pain is like yours
I just know that
heaven'll open these doors
And ain't no bright side to losin lifel; but you
can view it like this
God's got open hands homey, he in the midst.. of good
company
Who loves all and hates not one
And one day you gon' be wit your
son
I could've rapped about my hard times on this song
But heaven knows
I woulda been wrong
I wouldn'ta been right, it wouldn'ta been love
It wouldn'ta
been life, it wouldn'ta been us
This can't be life
[Chorus]
[Jay-Z]
This
can't be life..
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