Gotta Survive
Mase

I don't regret nothing that I have ever done

At this point I don't owe nobody an explanation


Man, they love you when you up

Kick you when you down

Look around, VH1 man, where are they down

Life is amusing, nobody like to see you cruising

But everybody like to see you losing

So I stop despise, on top of lies

And if it prophesied I'll be ostracized

And one day, I lost my rhodium on the day I hit the podium

Now I'm back on top and salty like sodium


A gift to this world man, wrap me with a ribbon

Why do you look for a dead among the living

Some thought I was crazy, some thought I was dissing

Some said I was lazy, some said I was different

I was so loaded, that everybody floated

But once I got the notice then I got focused

And then I saw the motive, so everybody rode it

So I did the way wrote it and live it the way I quote it, come on


Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me

When I'm down at the back, just keep it real

Gotta survive, gotta survive

Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me

So I try and I try to be really true

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me

Gotta survive, gotta survive


Hold up, trying to tell me what I'm not

Pull up in the 'Bach, now I'm all of the sudden hot

Now they want to stop just to look at what I got

Thought they want my home man, left me out to rot

So I had to make it on my own, take it on my own

I wanted out the hood I had to 'scape it on my own

Believe me now, it's easy now

'Cause everybody see me now and I'm on TV now


But it started out with low budget

Then I took it around the world the folks love it

In the beginning man, my life it was so rugged

But now I shine like a gold nugget, 'cause I made the most of it

I know how you feeling man, I was weary

Some days I used to sit there, my eyes all teary

Thinking to myself, do anybody hear me

Now I know, you making it out is not a theory, come on


Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me

When I'm down at the back, just keep it real

Gotta survive, gotta survive

Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me

So I try and I try to be really true

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me

Gotta survive, gotta survive


I've been laughed at, talked about, ridiculed

But I got a Bentley and I'm still not a bitter dude

And you know it's not coincidence, that me and you is not so intimate

I can't fake, I don't shake, I don't break

I don't lose, I don't use, I don't groove

I never lacked and I'm never going back

I'm nothing you ever sorrow

I'm telling you that I'm immortal


Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me

When I'm down at the back, just keep it real

Gotta survive, gotta survive

Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me

So I try and I try to be really true

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me

Gotta survive, gotta survive


Got to, got to survive

Keep your head held high

Got to, got to survive

Keep your head to the sky

Got to, got to survive

We can make it every time

Got to, got to survive

Gotta survive, gotta survive


Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me

(Yeah)

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me

When I'm down at the back, just keep it real

(You know there is nothing in this world)

Gotta survive, gotta survive

(That could separate me)

Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me

(From what I believe

So I try and I try to be really true

(from what I've achieved)

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me

(All of this is because of him)

Gotta survive, gotta survive

(And I'm telling you now)


Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me

(As much as you all don't want to hear this)

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me

(I could do nothing to myself)

When I'm down at the back, just keep it real

Gotta survive, gotta survive

(It's all through him, it's all through him)

Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me

(So all around the world)

So I try and I try to be really true

(You don't even know success)

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me

(Until you know him)

Gotta survive, gotta survive

(And him is Jesus)


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