[00:00:24] It was a cold morning gloomy sun barely shining [00:00:27] Figured it was gon rain today so I'm in [00:00:30] Sit around the house until the thunder storms slacks off [00:00:33] Look at my nightstand and pick the paper back up [00:00:36] Nostradamus I'm readin chapter after chapter [00:00:39] Predictions of the end of world and after [00:00:42] Life wit no beginning as the world stops spinning [00:00:46] As a journey that's never ending [00:00:48] I glance at my baby boy I can see this in his eyes [00:00:52] The little n***a glad to be alive [00:00:54] And as the days go by I thank god for watchin mines [00:00:58] Prayin that I remained in fire [00:01:00] The same man that I was which starts from the other mind phrase [00:01:04] Was it the cash I think my time came [00:01:06] For me to venture off into different demensions [00:01:09] The beginning the endind of my time [00:01:13] What we fail to realize [00:01:14] Is that we runnin outta time [00:01:17] Do we ever be born again [00:01:24] In my time of dying [00:01:27] It's like I'm runnin outta time [00:01:29] Will I ever be born again [00:01:36] In my time I try to stay true steps on the game [00:01:39] And if you n***a's thinkin like me do the same [00:01:42] Which is one minute ya smilin the next ya start cryin [00:01:46] Cause we can't accept we born to die [00:01:48] And I ease my edge and be a n***a to the end [00:01:52] But it's more to life then me and my benz [00:01:54] When my mama told to speak to my friends [00:01:56] I kinda took that s**t to heart [00:01:58] So don't f**k up your life 'fore it starts [00:02:00] Some n***a's wanna be like Mike [00:02:02] I'd rather be like Christ [00:02:03] Like christ [00:02:04] So at the end I'll see bright lights [00:02:05] Bright lights [00:02:06] I save a prayer for the fallen soldier's [00:02:08] Too many n***a's died young for tryna to hang [00:02:11] On the slaim's of our slums [00:02:12] And outcome as mommy neals sittin on the front row [00:02:16] Hopin god will accept your soul [00:02:18] The new millienium and as I sit watch the distance [00:02:20] Ships walk the horizon I'll stare into space while I'm drivin [00:02:28] And pray for me all the ends of my sins [00:02:42] The beginning the end of my time till I'm born again [00:03:00] In my time I've seen life born and I been blessed [00:03:03] Enough to see life lossed it's just the price life cost [00:03:06] And shortly explain my born I know I'm born to do it wrong [00:03:10] So when I'm gone life goes on [00:03:12] Tell my mother when she on the front row hold her head up [00:03:15] Shed no tears and dred those years [00:03:18] Smile and even though my whole life's been a po'ball [00:03:22] You did your's and it's not your fault [00:03:24] Tell my grandmother those words too [00:03:26] She knows I'm headed to a better place [00:03:28] That'll put a smile on my wife's face [00:03:31] God's graced the evil spirit that surronded me [00:03:33] And pass me and anytime it could'a had me [00:03:36] But when it all went wrong sung the same ol' song [00:03:40] Now it's peace after the storm blew on [00:03:42] And it's the better life security for your's and mines [00:03:46] What the evil lies and not so guide [00:03:48] In my time it's been times I would've stopped and called the quits [00:03:52] But I might as well sit until it's over wit [00:03:55] Eath to earth and ashes to ashes dust to dust [00:03:58] It's the lord I trust [00:04:00] The territory where I come from so I guess it'll be when I return [00:04:04] No sorrow it was just my turn [00:04:06] And in those last trumphet sounds put me down in the ground [00:04:10] But I'll proably be at home by now [00:04:12] And it's help will change [00:04:13] These helps will be changed [00:04:15] Blinking of a eye but I don't think I'll get to see that [00:04:24] In my time till I'm born again [00:04:36] It's changed when we born [00:04:42] And how we born from woman [00:04:55] We born from the spirit of life [00:05:04] And all our flesh remains [00:05:12] And not by the flesh of man [00:05:24] And not by the flesh of man