The Strive

By Example US

On Impulses

Released on 1997

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[Chorus]

Get in the zone of positivity, not negativity

'Cause we gotta strive for longevity

Get in the zone of positivity, not negativity

'Cause we gotta strive for longevity

Get in the zone of positivity, not negativity

'Cause we gotta strive for longevity

Get in the zone of positivity, not negativity

'Cause we gotta strive for longevity


[Verse 1: Dekay]

I gotta get myself together, see you try with rhymes

I stop the red signs and I move with the times of the spectacle

Asked the man to change the day 'cause I can't pull no aces

Been in different places

Ain't no motion slower than this Houston life I'm knowin'

The haters squeeze [?] just to try to get it goin'

People thinkin' that it be the last time

So I write every rhyme like it be the last one

Expectations, Dekay workin' in a corporation

Goin' with the ASR-10 boards 'n breaks, reels

And dad's takin' this time for me to make my own check

So facts to drop like hieroglyphic

Gotta get you open, I wanna plant the seeds

So it's all about the dough if you didn't know

Double jeopardy at the same time

And niggas got pride so we gotta keep it live

We strive, we strive


[Chorus]

Get in the zone of positivity, not negativity

'Cause we gotta strive for longevity

Get in the zone of positivity, not negativity

'Cause we gotta strive for longevity

Get in the zone of positivity, not negativity

'Cause we gotta strive for longevity

Get in the zone of positivity, not negativity

'Cause we gotta strive for longevity


[Verse 2: Dekay]

I've had enough, I've had enough

Shit don't seem to be addin' up

They say you reap what you sow get

I figured that the harder that I work I got paid less

The locomotion on the crazy moves I'm makin'

Try to break the chain while these stupid niggas waitin' for contracts

And wack gotta be a go-getter, I know better

I used to be a sittin' waiter but time waits for none

Jon Schnepp livin' like a king in the woods over yonder

On the Beltway, walkin' ride to the skyline

Trippin' over city lines in Texas

And people livin' under overpasses, it's sad

But I gotta keep strivin' for me

'Cause in this world, ain't a damn thing for free

And everywhere we go we see the same thing

And everyone we know need to take the blame

We got to strive


[Chorus]

Get in the zone of positivity, not negativity

'Cause we gotta strive for longevity

Get in the zone of positivity, not negativity

'Cause we gotta strive for longevity

Get in the zone of positivity, not negativity

'Cause we gotta strive for longevity

Get in the zone of positivity, not negativity

'Cause we gotta strive for longevity


[Verse 3: Dekay]

Gotta get in the zone of positivity

'Cause positively I wanna live with me

The cave 'round my site can take you higher than the Himalayas

Southern players from Southwest to Acres Shakers couldn't fade us

And I told your ass one time and now I gotta tell your ass again

You ain't gon' win 40 demos and flows I ain't demonstratin'

But what you hear is what you get and niggas won't buy your shit

But yo, I got things to do and things to prove

Extra pressure people on the corner expectin' Kay to be the new thang

A quarterback and a new scheme of things

Example be the logo or where your life you gotta follow

In the bio, life's full of freakin' trials and tribulations

This life I live, sometimes I feel I didn't have a lot to give

But I done lived the life for 20 some odd years

My brother's restin' under daffodils, that's why we strive

We got to strive, let's do the strive


[Chorus]

Get in the zone of positivity, not negativity

'Cause we gotta strive for longevity

Get in the zone of positivity, not negativity

'Cause we gotta strive for longevity

Get in the zone of positivity, not negativity

'Cause we gotta strive for longevity

Get in the zone of positivity, not negativity

'Cause we gotta strive for longevity