Transcribed by DJ critikaLnn[2Pac: Intro]nResist the temptationnThis song go out to the Underground Railround..nDigital Underground..nn[2Pac: Verse 1]nResist the temptation of the beastnYou slip and loose your grip and forever fall asleepnThe venom is contagious, be wary of its spellnWhat you thought would be heaven, turns out to be hellnI wonder if she knows, the devil's taking off her clothesnDeep into her soul, slow, now he's in controlnPoppa's doing worse, a victim of his deadly cursenWouldn't be the first, to leave the ghetto in a hearsenOh and how it hurts, the children pay the biggest pricenNever get the chance, to grow up with a happy lifenBlame it on the rock, but we know that's a bunch of crapnSomeone from the top, supplying us with plenty cracknKeep 'em in a daze, don't let them see the other waynLet 'em all get paid, won't live to see another daynSee they never got a breath of the sunshinenNow the kid's addicted and only hit it one timenWe're destined to be dead as a nationnDon't let it come to this, resist the temptationnn[Amel Larrieux: Chorus]nFrom, pyramid top to, bottom of bowlnFrom, whips and lock your fist and afronWe, dug too deep to give up this goldnDon't beat boy, and you won't be soldnRunning on empty, you ain't gon' gonRunning on empty, lead you to nowherenWe fact, nobody can lienSo: RE, SIST, THE, TEMPTATIONnn[2Pac: Verse 2]nGamble for your soul with the devilnYou wonder how low, can you go, before you finally reach the lowest levelnAs everybody sit and staresnThere's no use looking in your eyes 'cause there isn't anybody therenAnd though it may make you wanna crynGot you stealing from your family and you don't even know whynI guess you think they'll understandnYou feel cold, 'cause you sold your soul to the dopemannOh now there's no turning back, in factnI's decided, that would live and die for the cracknYou got no friends cause you cheated 'em allnFeel lonely, low, defeated and smallnNo one was there when I took the wrong pathnAnd nobody'd care if I died in a blood bathnBut is this my destiny?nTell the lord they got my mind, but he can have the rest of menCause I'm ready to end it allnOne bullet to the brain, forgive my sins and allnI didn't mean to be a bothernA failure as a son, a husband and a fathernI wish I could turn back the timenGo back and find, why I let it crack my mindnAnd my only explanation, it came to thisnResist the temptationnn[Amel Larrieux: Chorus]nFrom, pyramid top to, bottom of bowlnFrom, whips and lock your fist and afronWe, dug too deep to give up this goldnDon't beat boy, and you won't be soldnRunning on empty, you ain't gon' gonRunning on empty, lead you to nowherenWe fact, nobody can lienSo: RE, SIST, THE, TEMPTATIONnn[2Pac: Verse 3]nYour death left family behindnYour wife and your son find a gun, and pieces of daddy's mindnOn the door and on the floornNow her husband is dead, what else is she living for?nSo now she picks up the gunnNow son is the only onenGrows up in adoption homesnGets older, bolder, and cold 'cause he's left alonenTo him, nothing is funnynMind set on one thing, making his moneynSince I was left with no hopenI want money and gold ropes and so I slang dopenNow I'm the neighborhood dopemannAnd as long 'cause they smoking I'll never be broke mannI live the life of a triflenFollowing a cycle, so I'm just a psychonBut if I had a better lifenI would have lived a good life and did more things rightnHard to resist temptationnWith all the aggravation and the frustrationnOf living in the ghettonYour mind gets twisted, just like a pretzelnSo it's time that I check outnBut one nosy cop, just won't let me get outnThey got me trapped once againnWith a choice: shoot the cop, or live life in the pennI can't stand the frustrationnResist the temptationnn[Amel Larrieux: Chorus w/ extra ad-libs]nFrom, pyramid top to, bottom of bowlnFrom, whips and lock your fist and afronWe, dug too deep to give up this goldnDon't beat boy, and you won't be sold (resist the temptation)nRunning on empty, you ain't gon' gonRunning on empty, lead you to nowherenWe fact, nobody can lienSo: RE, SIST, THE, TEMPTATIONnn[2Pac: Outro w/ Amel Larrieux ad-libs]nFive ThousandnThis song go out to the Underground Railround..nDigital Underground..