Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - This Life Lyrics

You don't want to live this life
No, this life, it's not nice
You don't want to live this life
No, this life, it's not nice

Nigga, stop
(What?)
Hold on, before you jump and just listen
Take a second to straddle the fence
Let me tell you about what you been missin'

Ain't a damn thang
(Damn thang)
Are you thinkin' the grass is greener?
Like a nigga just lost his first love
Singin', "Have you seen her?"

Tossin' high beams, chasin' pipe dreams
Lookin' for shit that really ain't there
I mean it is what you make it my nigga
You better just stay on your square

Down here, killers and thieves
Pimps and pushers is on the prowl
If they find you out of your element
They'll pick you out of the crowd

Thing to do is face the music, take a stand for yo' position
Nigga get up, better stand up, man up in yo' position
Never have no mercy for them niggas that's not applyin' theyself
And shit ain't perfect so you gotta make it work for yo'self

You catch them coward-niggas runnin', duckin', lookin' for help
But the realest niggas in the game play the cards they was dealt
Me, myself, I got some issues, I ain't dealin' with yours
Everybody got they own drama, rich or they poor

You don't want to live this life
No, this life, it's not nice
You don't want to live this life
No, this life, it's not nice

You don't want to live this life
No, this life, it's not nice
You don't want to live this life
No, this life, it's not nice

They gave me the 25 with the L, I'm in my jail cell
It feel like a movie, I'm getting' so woozy from the stale smell
Bailin', breathin' Hell's air
My first day here

I had to get down with a nigga that thought I was some kind of faggot
I had to show him no ho's stay here
Havin' to die, it is my main fear
Why did I have to kill that man? I should've never let my anger build

Now my state of awareness keeps me wishin' I was thinkin'
Should have reason I didn't really mean to stop the boy from breathin'
I was awake last night, real late last night
'Cause I heard some nigga screamin', getting' raped last night

I did the crime but I wasn't thinkin' about me doin' the time
These 6-by-9's is about to make me lose my mind
Trapped in these closed walls, ain't had no conversation
With my family on the outside 'cause they won't accept my phone calls

After a couple of years of sheddin' tears, my heart is stone hard
Believe I'm ready for war and on guard

You don't want to live this life
No, this life, it's not nice
You don't want to live this life
No, this life, it's not nice

You don't want to live this life
No, this life, it's not nice
You don't want to live this life
No, this life, it's not nice

I've been shot, grew up without my pops
In the hood round block seen niggas shot
Got rid of them thangs, tryin' to chase them knots
'Cause I had to have it, knew niggas that's lookin' for where my stash at

Watchin' my back, puttin' up ready for niggas that wanna check that

And I can't keep it kind, if you puttin' in work
And your dreams is just like mine
Wake up in cold sweats, regrets about what I thought was lies
I can see me not doin' that
But I did it, we live it, the hood shows you no slack
And believe it, there's no, no, no, comin' back

Make money, think you're on that
Just ridin' through the hood, you might have to push your wig back
Get the money man, the root of all evil
They say, "Take it home, man", but damn I gotta watch my people

You'll be high 'cause one us lay there, not just him
But damn, everybody he ran with
They all gettin' money man, money man
Right here
(Right here)
Damn, see how life is

You don't want to live this life
No, this life, it's not nice
You don't want to live this life
No, this life, it's not nice

You don't want to live this life
No, this life, it's not nice
You don't want to live this life
No, this life, it's not nice