Mase - Gotta Survive

I don't regret nothin' that i've ever done
at this point i don't owe n obody an explanation
Man they love you when you up
kick you when you down
look around vh1 man where are they now
life is amusin'
nobody like to see you cruisin'
but evrybody like to see you losin'
so i stop
despisin' on top a lies
im livin' prophet side i'll be ostracized
one day i lost my rodeydum the day i hit the podium
now im back on top salty like sodium
a gift to this world man rappin' wit a ribbon
why do you look for the dead among the livin'
sum thought i was crazy sum thought i was missin'
sum said i was lazy sum said i was diffrent
i was so loaded that evrybody flowed it but
once i got to notice then i got focused
and then i saw they motive so evrybody voted
so i did the way i rote it and live it the way i quote it
c'mon

Gotta Survive in this life thats been givin' to me
but it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me
when im down at the back just keep it real
Gotta survive, Gotta survive
Gotta survive in this life thats been givin' to me
so i tried and i tried to do anything
when it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me
Gotta survive, Gotta survive
now the block tried ta tell me what im not
pull up in a bot now im all a sudden hot
now they wanna stop just ta look at wat i got
thought they were my homay left me out ta rot
so i had ta make it on my own
take it on my own i wanted out the hood i had ta scape it on my own
believe me now its easy now
cause evrybody seen me down and im on tv now
but it started out with no budget
then i took it round the world and the folks love it
in the beginnin' man my life it was so rugget
but now i shine like a gold nugget
cause i made the most of it
i no how u feelin' man i was weary
sum days i used ta sit there my eyes all teary
thinkin' to myself do
anybody hear me now i no
u makin' a dolla's not a theory, c'mon

Gotta Survive in this life thats been givin' to me
but it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me
when im down at the back just keep it real
Gotta survive, Gotta survive
Gotta survive in this life thats been givin' to me
so i tried and i tried to do anything
when it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me
Gotta survive, Gotta survive
I been laughed at, talked about ridiculed
but m dot bethay is still not a bitter dude
and u no its no coincident
that me n u is not so intimate
i cant fake i dont shake
i dont break i dont lose i dont use i dont bruise
i never lack and im neva goin back
im nuttin u never sawd of
im tellin' u that im immortal

Gotta Survive in this life thats been givin' to me
but it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me
when im down at the back just keep it real
Gotta survive, Gotta survive
Gotta survive in this life thats been givin' to me
so i tried and i tried to do anything
when it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me
Gotta survive, Gotta survive
Yea, u no theres nuthin in this world
that could seperate me
from wat i believe
from wat i've achieved
all a dis is because a him
and im tellin' u now as much as yall dont wanna hear dis
i could do nuthin of myself
its all through him
its all through him
so all around the world
u dont even no sucess until u no him and him is Jesus