[Intro]

*Lightning strikes*

I believe in you, not because of you but because of God that is in you

I pray to God will cause you to soar

High above an eagle, high above the thoughts of others, higher than high

Thank you my brothers and sisters for what you have done

And I know that we are not through yet for this is just the beginning

However, words cannot express my love, check, check

[Verse 1]

I caused mo' strain, pain and anguish

On my grandmama and my granddaddy

Than all nine other children, combined, phone calls from jail

I'm goin' through hell, I'm talkin' to 'em through glass, please, relax now

I'm put 'em in predicaments on multiple occasions

I can still hear 'em tellin' me "I be damned, Jason"

Used to beat me upside the head with a Bible "Boy, boy, boy"

I can still hear 'em prayin' for me "Lord, Lord, Lord

Please, do somethin' with the baby we done raised"

It's when I was well beyond or way past the age

Of accountability and what I did was all me

But they felt it was on them "I miss you, Grandpa, uh" (Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord)

That man didn't play no games, kept it one hundred

He taught me to worship Jesus (Amen), taught me to get money (Ha!)

Taught me to keep a straight face, even when I was scared

And it was by his guidance that I came out prepared, and, uh

(And it was by his guidance that I came out prepared, and, uh)

[Chorus]

We die how we live, we live how we die

If someone were to ask me tonight:

"Stak, what's yo' biggest regret in this life?

It's that we only get one time to get it right?"

We die how we live, we live how we die

If someone were to ask me tonight:

"Stak, what's yo' biggest regret in this life?

It's that we only get one time to get it right?"

[Verse 2]

Let me get my ink pen (Uh), ya done got me started, thinkin' (Yeah)

Writing down my recollections, recalling my reflections

The bodies, of murdered children

Maybe when the death toll reach a million

They'll do somethin' but until then

These children needs real men

Willin' to stand up for them, as well as they sell

'Cause we share the common ground of passing through hell

Where nobody got no Daddy and some people got no momma

Used to go holla at my partner like "Hey, man, I need to borrow yo' momma"

"Mrs. Thompson, I promise that we only did it once

Now she say she pregnant, excuse my language, but I'm scared as fuck

I'm seventeen, I'm not cut out to be nobody daddy"

Now I wonder what would happen had lil' gal had that baby

Maybe I'd be preachin', maybe I'd be killed

Out there on the spot tryna get diapers and Enfamil

My mistakes are pages in a book about me

And I'm so amazed it didn't end at chapter twenty three, ya feel me?

[Chorus]

We die how we live, we live how we die

If someone were to ask me tonight:

"Stak, what's yo' biggest regret in this life?

It's that we only get one time to get it right?"

We die how we live, we live how we die

If someone were to ask me tonight:

"Stak, what's yo' biggest regret in this life?

It's that we only get one time to get it right?"

[Verse 3]

I fail so many times, I said "What's the point of gettin' up?"

I made it to a place where I ain't even give a-schhh…

Jason, give it up, ya dreamin', they told me

Outta there tryna make a demo outta quarter-schhh…

God had his hands, his hands on me

In time, I learned how to pray for my enemy

If you see me fighting a tiger, please, come fast

Before I beat the stripes off his big dumb ass

I remember back when I was gone

My people searched the whole house, I just wasn't at home

They leave a light on so I can find my way back in

And pray before they go to bed that I get back again

I came so far since then

God got me out when the devil had me fenced in, but that's just my opinion

And it oughta be yours, if you got common sense

'Cause I rock cross country from L.A. to Providence, praise God

[Bridge]

Well, we die one time

You crazy, you think I'ma waste mine

I said we live and die one time

Oh-oh-oh-oh! (One time, one time, one time, one time)

[Chorus]

We die how we live, we live how we die

If someone were to ask me tonight:

"Stak, what's yo' biggest regret in this life?

It's that we only get one time to get it right?"

We die how we live, we live how we die

If someone were to ask me tonight:

"Stak, what's yo' biggest regret in this life?

It's that we only get one time to get it right?"

[Outro]

*Lightning strikes*