How Long Can It Last

Dear Lord
I know You don't condone the things I
Be doin out here in these streets
(Help me, Lord) And I hope that
I pray that You can overlook (Help me
Lord) the wrong that I had done in my life
I don't know no other way to survive out here
(Wrap your arms around me, Lord)
I got a whole bunch of people dependin on me
Just walk with me walk with me

Busslin and gamblin, hit licks scramblin
Bricks I'm out here handlin
I'm pimpin and I'm payin 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 wit that
Thang, makin that crisp, lettin 'em hang
Bangin 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 chil'ren can live well
Might go to heaven, might go to hell
But just put me in wood grain lane Deville
I wonder sometime how life would be
If it 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 thankin weak
Gotta play for keeps, gotta play it HARD
Still tryna get right with GOD
Still read my Bible lone
Cause Reverend do wrong, still livin fraud
Tonight if I get down on my knees
And ask the Lord to forgive me, please
You thank He gon' hear me? Cause tomorrow
I'm still gon be slangin keyyyyys
(Ohhhh Lorrrrd)

Lord, I'm just a G (Lord, I'm just a G)
Out here livin fast (livin fast)
How long can it last?
(I don't know, I don't know)
I juuuust can't give it up
(But I'm prayin to Your love right now)
I'm riskin all out in the streets
(I'll give it all up for Your love right now)
Out here livin fast (livin too fast)
How long can it last?
(How long, how long, how long, will it last
Baby?)

See I was born in the ghetto mayne
I was raised in the hood
And unless you lived it yourself
It just can't be understood
People think hustlin is cool
(cool) , all hustlin is live
They don't understand hustlers only
Hustlin to survive
They wished they lived in the 'burbs
('burbs)
Wished they didn't have to hang (hang)
Out on corners in low-income house
In projects and slang
They wish their daddy was home
(home) , mama wasn't on drugs (drugs)
And they didn't have to grow up
To be dealers and thugs (thugs)
Po' children got aspirations and dreams
Just like the wealthy (wealthy)
But it's hard when that environment
You live in ain't healthy (healthy)
You ain't givin no hope
(hope) , nobody showin you pride (pride)
And you live with all this
Anger and frustration inside (side)
Dog, don't let nobody tell you what
You can or you can't do
Just cause they funky ass couldn't do it -
(Why?) They ain't you
You can be who you wanna be
(uh) , live life how you feel
Just put your faith in the Lord
(yep) , now that's keepin it Trill, fo' real!
(Ohhhh Lorrrrd)

Lord, I'm just a G (Just a G)
Out here livin fast (Out here livin fast)
How long can it last?
(How long can it last? How
Long can it LA-AST?)
I juuuust can't give it up
I'm riskin all out in the streets
(I risk it all) out here livin fast
(livin too fast, livin too fast)
How long can it last? (How long can it last
How long can it last right now?)

UHHHHH! I wonder if it's a heaven
Up there for real G's
For all the niggas in the
Game that's been slangin cheese
For all them boys on them
Swangers and the fifth wheel
I'm out here riskin my life
Niggas shife 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, followin me around for three
Niggas couldn't catch me so they
Hit me wit conspiracy
(Uh) You know that that's the
Other level of the GAME
Ain't got shit on me but
Some niggas said my NAAAAAME
So here they COOOME
They thang TI I I I I I GHT
They playin shife, no Bun givin me life
(Uhh) I ain't goin back
I'mma make 'em kill me
(Uhh) I'mma bust back, fuck the pen
You FEEL ME?
Wish I can hug my momma and kiss my baby girl
I know it's a better place than
Livin in this dirty WOOOORLD (Lorrrrd)

Lord, I'm just a G (Lord I'm just a G)
Out here livin fast (Out here livin fast)
How long can it last?
(How long can it last? How long can it last?)
I juuuust can't give it up
(HOW LONG can it last?)
I'm riskin all out in the streets
(please forgive me, lord)
Out here livin fast
(I don't mean to disrespect You right now)
How long can it last?
(I'm out here in the streets
Tryna make a mil for a better deal)

Some people win
(win) , some people lose (lose)
Some al-ways cryin the blues yeah
Some people win
(win) , some people lose (lose)
Some al-ways bein misused

Yeeaaaaa-a ahh-yeaaha
What am I supposed to do, Lord?
I'm tryin my best out here
But it's getting kinda HARD for me, Lord
What am I supposed to do?
What am i supposed to do?
Can you WRAP YOUR ARMS AROUND ME, LORD?
Cause I need You, Lord right noooooowww
I NEED You, right now
NEED ya, I NEED ya, I NEED Ya
I NEED YA, cause I'm goin and livin too fast
Yeah-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhh
O-o-o-ooohhhhhhhhh, yeahlord have mercy
Charlie Wilson, Pimp C, Bun, I need You
Can You help us, Lord? Can You help us right
Right now, right now, right
Now, right noooowwwwwwwwww, yeahwoo!

Out here livin too fast, how long
Can it last?I can't get up
Lord can You help me? LORD, can You help me?
Can You help me? Can You HELP me
Right noooooowwwww, yeah

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