Life We Chose (Clean Version)

Life We Chose - Nas

Lyrics by：Fred Wesley

Composed by：Fred Wesley

To my n***as huh

We all we got

Let's hold it down though y'know

However it's gon' go down

This what we gotta deal with y'know

Yo

It's the life we chose uhh

Where friends become foes

And the dough'll get you

Killed quicker than you know uhh

This is the life we chose

Bring fake snakes and hoes

And the only way out is death or going broke

This the life we chose ain't too many happy endings

That's why there ain't too many happy n***as in it

And I'll admit it this life is f**ked up but yo

But yo this life is the only life I know

I know

I know

I know

Gold bathtubs making love to my queen

Get my back rubbed Chardonnay rolling up green

Statues marble floors rare paintings on my wall

My lifestyle's like the Forbes Magazine

Closets full of rockets and sub-machines

Take this n***a out the projects and his thug team

Yo we cruise past street lights ill rides

Mr Chow both coasts with the most loud toast

Calicos roast y'all folks keep y'all dying

'Cause it's hard to f**k

Around when we dealing with science

My enemies got money so y'all should watch how I play it

They never know we enemies until they hear me say it

'Til they kid's on the phone saying please daddy pay it

'Til they brain's on the floor mixed on the pavement

High-class elegance you respect or you hiss

You go against you'd rather piss on an electrical fence

It's strategic how these n***as want you to think

You'd be surprised who'd be the one to put you to sleep

Why you stink yo these streets don't allow you to blink

You get showered by lead coming out with your mink

Bow ties and tuxedos bust eagles

Dump drugs and acid then they rush with the Rico

It's hard f**king with n***as you hope you can trust

You a fool if your main b***h is easy to f**k

And you've got money-is these hoes greedy or what

S**t is devious ex-friends wanting you stuck

It's the life we chose where friends become foes

And the dough'll get you killed quicker than you know

This is the life we chose bring fake snakes and hoes

And the only way out is death or going broke

This the life we chose ain't too many happy endings

That's why there ain't too many happy n***as in it

And I'll admit it this life is f**ked up but yo

This life is the only life I know

I know

I know

I know

What's love when you

Don't give your man enough dough

He wanna stick you

What's love you got beef

Nobody rolling with you

What's love you locked up

And your family don't care

Is love a four-letter word

That deceives the ear

What's real when you know

Your man's girl is a ho

And you don't even let him know

'Cause you f**ked her befo'

What's real when you talk behind a man's back

Then you see him and give him dap

Now explain that

What's trust when they separate your case

When you at your court date

Your co-de' can't look in your face

What's trust when you keep

Your wife away from your man

And he never crossed you

But you claiming he's fam'

What's trust when you get bust

Your n***as don't retaliate

They blaze purple haze with 'em the next day

God forbid one of my n***as get hit I'ma go haywire

Won't hesitate I'ma spray fire

But everybody's different

You won't know how you react

'Til you in that position

And that's an actual fact

The hearts of men change

As time goes on who's wrong

You was hungry when you stuck Duke

He came back to buck you

Who's wrong

Foul all your life now you 90

On your deathbed you regret being grimy

What's lust a bust nut

What's a thug

A ghetto child raised around drugs

'Til he's old enough to bust slugs

Then what's jail to rehabilitate

Or to make a n***a worse

When he come home to catch another case

Life's about decisions you choose it

You gotta live it

You did it heaven or hell or prison

Who knows when your clock'll stop ticking

Get your weight up

Save up before it's over neighbor I told ya

You getting older player

Look at those who gave up

It's the life we chose where friends become foes

And the dough'll get you killed quicker than you know

This is the life we chose bring fake snakes and hoes

And the only way out is death or going broke

This the life we chose ain't too many happy endings

That's why there ain't too many happy n***as in it

And I'll admit it this life is f**ked up but yo

This life is the only life I know

I know

I know

I know