How Long Can It Last (feat. Charlie Wilson)

Dear Lord

I know you don't condone the things I be doing out here in these streets

And I hope that

I pray that You can overlook

The wrong that I had done in my life

I don't know no other way to survive out here

I got a whole bunch of people depending on me

Just walk with me

Walk with me

Hustling and gambling, hit licks scrambling

Bricks I'm out here handling

I'm pimping and I'm paying the rent

Didn't choose this dirty game

This dirty game it chose me

Every city love cocaine

They'll get it from him if they don't get it from me

So I get cross-country with that thang

Making that crisp letting 'em hang

Banging that Pac if I die tonight

Least Mama know I didn't die in vain

'Cause I put up sum from every sale

So all my children can live well

Might go to heaven might go to hell

But just put me in the woods grain, ring the bell

I wonder sometime how life would be

If there was no such thing as D

But then I put that sweet down 'cause that bullshit

Don't apply to me

'Cause out here on the real streets

A dreamer always stay sleep

'Cause out here the strong survive

And now they didn't die from thinking weak

Gotta play for keeps gotta play it hard

Still trying to get right with God

Still real my Bible lone 'cause reverend do wrong still living fraud

Tonight if I get down on my knees and ask the Lord to forgive me please

You thank he gonna hear me cause tomorrow I'm still gonna be slanging keys

Lord, I'm just a G

Out here living fast

How long can it last?

I just can't give it up

I'm risking all out in the streets

Out here living fast

How long can it last?

See I was born in the ghetto, man, I was raised in the hood

And unless you lived it yourself it just can't be understood

People think hustling is cool

All hustling is live

They don't understand hustlers only hustling to survive

They wished they lived in the burbs

Wished they didn't have to hang

Out on the corners in low income housing projects and slang

They wish they daddy was home

Mama wasn't on drugs

And they didn't have to grow up to be dealers and thugs

Poor children got aspirations and dreams just like the wealthy

But it's hard when that environment you live in ain't healthy

Ain't given no hope

Nobody showing you pride

And you live with all this anger and frustration inside

Dawg, don't let nobody tell you what you can or you can't do

Just 'cause they funky ass couldn't do it they ain't you

You can be who you wanna be

Live life how you feel

Just put your faith in the Lord

Now that's keeping it trill

For real

Lord, I'm just a G

Out here living fast

How long can it last?

How long can it last?

I just can't give it up

I'm risking all out in the streets

Out here living fast

How long can it last?

I wonder if it's a heaven up there for real G's

For all the **** in the game that's been slinging cheese

For all them boys on them swingers and the fifth wheel

I'm out here risking my life

**** shy but I stay trill

I pray so much

I wonder if the Lord love me

I think He do

But I'm so caught up in my thug deep

The feds bug me

Following me around for three

**** couldn't catch me so they hit me with conspiracy

You know that that's the other level of the game

Ain't got shit on me but some **** said my name

So here they come

They thang tight

They playing shy, no one giving me life

I ain't going back

I'ma make 'em kill me

I'ma bust back

Fuck the pen you feel me

Wish I could hug my mama and kiss my baby girl

I know it's a better place than living in this dirty world

Lord, I'm just a G

Out here living fast

How long can it last?

How long can it last?

I just can't give it up

I'm risking all out in the streets

Out here living fast

How long can it last?

Some people win

Some people lose

Some always crying the blues

Yeah

Some people win

Some people lose

Some always being misused

Yeah

Lord, I'm just a G

Out here living fast

How long can it last?

I just can't give it up

I'm risking all out in the streets

Out here living fast

How long can it last?

Lord, I'm just a G

Out here living fast

How long can it last?

I just can't give it up

I'm risking all out in the streets

Out here living fast

How long can it last?

Out here living too fast

How long can it last?

I can't get up

Lord, can you help me?

Can you help me?

Can you help me right now?