[00:00:00] Gotta Survive (Album Version) - Mase [00:00:00] Written by:M. Betha/C. Cole/Erica Dymakkus [00:00:01] I don't regret nothing that I have ever done [00:00:05] At this point I don't owe nobody an explanation [00:00:11] Man they love you when you up [00:00:12] Kick you when you down [00:00:14] Look around VH1 man where are they down [00:00:16] Life is amusing nobody like to see you cruising [00:00:20] But everybody like to see you losing [00:00:22] So I stop despise on top of lies [00:00:25] And if it prophesized I'll be ostracized [00:00:28] One day I lost my rodium [00:00:30] On the day I hit the podium [00:00:31] Now I'm back on top and salty like sodium [00:00:34] A gift to this world man wrap me with a ribbon [00:00:37] Why do you look for a dead among the living [00:00:40] Some thought I was crazy some thought I was dissing [00:00:42] Some said I was lazy some said I was different [00:00:46] I was so loaded that everybody floated [00:00:48] But once I got the notice then I got focused [00:00:51] And then I saw they motive so everybody rode it [00:00:54] So I did the way wrote it [00:00:55] And live it the way I quote it come On [00:00:57] Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me [00:01:00] When it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me [00:01:03] When I'm down at the back just keep it real [00:01:06] Gotta survive gotta survive [00:01:09] Gotta Survive in this life that's being given to me [00:01:12] So I try and I try to be all I can be [00:01:14] When it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me [00:01:17] Gotta survive gotta survive [00:01:19] Hold up trying to tell me what I'm not [00:01:22] Pull up in the 'Bach not I'm all of the sudden hot [00:01:25] Now they want to stop just to look at what I got [00:01:28] Thought they want my home man left me out to rot [00:01:31] So I had to make it on my own [00:01:33] Take it on my own [00:01:34] I wanted out the hood [00:01:35] I had to 'scape it on my own [00:01:37] Believe me now it's easy now [00:01:39] 'Cause everybody see me now and I'm on TV now [00:01:43] But it started out with low budget [00:01:45] Then I took it around the world the folks love it [00:01:48] In the beginning man my life it was so rugged [00:01:51] But now I shine like a gold nugget [00:01:52] 'Cause I made the most of it [00:01:55] I know how you feeling man I was weary [00:01:57] Some days I used to sit there my eyes all teary [00:02:00] Thinking to myself do anybody hear me [00:02:03] Now I know you making it out [00:02:05] Is not a theory come on [00:02:06] Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me [00:02:09] When it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me [00:02:12] When I'm down at the back just keep it real [00:02:15] Gotta survive gotta survive [00:02:18] Gotta Survive in this life that's being given to me [00:02:21] So I try and I try to be all I can be [00:02:24] When it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me [00:02:26] Gotta survive gotta survive [00:02:29] I've been laughed at talked about ridiculed [00:02:32] But I got a Bentley and I'm still not a bitter dude [00:02:35] And you know it's not coincidence [00:02:37] That me and you is not so intimate [00:02:40] I can't fake I don't shake I don't break [00:02:44] I don't lose I don't use I don't groove [00:02:47] I never lacked and I'm never going back [00:02:49] I'm nothing you ever sawd of [00:02:51] I'm telling you that I'm immortal [00:02:52] Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me [00:02:55] When it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me [00:02:58] When I'm down at the back just keep it real [00:03:01] Gotta survive gotta survive [00:03:04] Gotta Survive in this life that's being given to me [00:03:07] So I try and I try to be all I can be [00:03:10] When it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me [00:03:12] Gotta survive gotta survive [00:03:16] Got to got to survive [00:03:19] Keep your head held high [00:03:21] Got to got to survive [00:03:24] Keep your head to the sky [00:03:27] Got to got to survive [00:03:30] We can make it if we try [00:03:33] Got to got to survive