DMX - Slippin

See to live is to suffer but to survive
well that's to find meaning in the suffering.

[Chorus]
Ay yo Im slippin Im fallin I cant get up (x2)
-- I gots to get up
Get back on my feet so I can tear shit up!

I been through mad different phases like mazes
to find my way & now I know that happy days are not far away
If I'm strong enough Ill live long enough to see my kids
doing something more constructive with they time
than bids I know because I been there
now Im in there sit back & look
at what it took for me to get there
First came the bullshit: the drama with my mama
she got on some fly shit so I split
and said that Ima be that seed
that doesnt need much to succeed
strapped with mad greed and a heart that doesnt bleed
I'm ready for the world or at least I thought I was
baggin niggas when I caught a buzz
for thinking about how short I was
Going too fast it wouldnt last but yo I couldnt tell
group homes & institutions, prepare my ass for jail
They put me in a situation forcin me to be a man
when I was just learnin to stand without a helpin hand
Damn, was it my fault, somethin I did
to make a father leave his first kid at 7 doin my first bid?
Back on the scene at 14 with a scheme
to get more green than I'd ever seen in a dream
and by all means I will be living high off the hog
and I never gave a fuck about much but my dog
That's my only mutha-fucka I had offered my last
Just another little nigga headed nowhere fast

[Chorus]
That aint the half "uhh!" Shit gets worse as I get older
actions become bolder heart got colder
chip on my shoulder that I dared a nigga to touch
didn't need a click cause I scared a nigga that much
One deep with the pitch startin' shit for kicks
catchin' vicks throwin' bricks gettin by bein' slick
used to get high to get by used to have to (sounds like) "buff my hell" in the morning before I could fly
I ate something a couple of forties made me hate somethin
I did some coke now I'm ready to take somethin

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