This Can't Be Life - Jay-Z
Written by：Dwight Grant/Leon Huff/Malik Cox/Kenneth Gamble/Kanye West/Shawn Carter/Brad Jordan
Geah whassup
Where's all my street niggaz project niggaz
Real niggaz worldwide
Let's reflect e'rybody got a story
We all ghetto B here's mine
Geah
See I was born in sewage born to make bomb music
Flow tight like I was born Jewish
Used the streets as a conduit I kept arms
38 longs inside my mom's Buick
At any given moment Shawn could lose it be on the news
Iron cuffs arms through it or stuffed with embalmin' fluid
Shit I'm going through it mom dukes too
Tears streaming down her pretty face she got her palms to it
My life is getting too wild
I need to bring some sort kinda calm to it
'Bout to lose it voices screaming
Don't do it
It's like '93 '94 'bout the year
That Big and Mag dropped and Illmatic rocked
Outta every rag drop and the West had it locked
Everybody doing 'em I'm still scratchin' on the block
Like damn I'ma be a failure
Surrounded by thugs drugs and drug paraphenalia
Cops courts and their thoughts is to derail us
Three time felons in shorts with jealous thoughts
Trying figure where your mail is guesstimate the weight you selling
So they can send shots straight to your melon wait
It gets worse baby momma water burst
Baby came out stillborn still I gotta move on
Though my heart still torn life gone from her womb
Don't worry if it was meant to be it'll be soon
This can't be life this can't be love
This can't be right there's gotta be more this can't be us
This can't be life this can't be love
This can't be right there's gotta be more this can't be us
Chill dog
Second oldest born from Michelle Brown my mother
Hell bound grew with two sisters and one brother
Pop wasn't around so many stories that's another
I'm thinking damn how my older sister gon' make me tougher
When steel sharpens steel I'ma keep it real
I'm tired of trying to hide my pain behind the syrups and pills
Dead to the world stretched out like a corpse for real
Y'all niggaz thinking what y'all reading in The Source is real
What my life like you looking at the source it's real
What your life like Mine dog of course it's real
Passing judgment you niggaz second guessing Beans
Cause you don't eat swine don't make you Amin
Dog you know a couple suras out the Qur'an
I guess you all on your din and I ain't on mine
Stop that Akki 'fore I send shots though your body
Make 'em feel hell on earth before Allah drop thee
I feel the line's drawn here nutting more can stop me
Till them feds pick me up or them boys pop me
There's only three things that make Mac not act like Beans
Amatullah Tisha Po Aldin Samir Amin
My seeds dog gotta teach 'em that before I leave dog
Shit I know that I'ma see 'em when I leave dog
I come back in the afterlife
Like f**k it I done touched hell twice what's the meaning
This can't be life this can't be love
This can't be right there's gotta be more this can't be us
This can't be life this can't be love
This can't be right there's gotta be more this can't be us
Now as I walk into the studio to do this with Jig'
I got a phone call from one of my nigs
Said my homeboy Reek he just lost one of his kids
And when I heard that I just broke into tears
And see in the second hand you don't really know how this is
But when it hits that close to home you feel the pain at the crib
So I called mine and saddened my wife with the bad news
Now we both depressed counting our blessings cause Brad's two
Praying for young souls to laugh atlife through the stars
Loving your kids just like you was ours
And I'm hurting for you dog but ain't nobody pain is like yours
I just know that heaven'll open these doors
And ain't no bright side to losing life but you can view it like this
God's got open hands homey he in the midst of good company
Who loves all and hates not one
And one day you gon' be wit your son
I could've rapped about my hard times on this song
But heaven knows I woulda been wrong
I wouldn'ta been right it wouldn'ta been love
It wouldn'ta been life it wouldn'ta been us
This can't be life
This can't be life this can't be love
This can't be right there's gotta be more this can't be us
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