[Intro]

I don't regret nothing that I have ever done

At this point I don't owe nobody an explanation

[Verse 1]

Man, they love you when you up

Kick you when you down

Look around, VH1 man, where are they now

Life is amusing, nobody like to see you cruising

But everybody like to see you losing

So I stop despise, on top of lies

And if it prophesized I'll be ostracised

One day, I lost my rodium on the day I hit the podium

Now I'm back on top and salty like sodium

A gift to this world man, wrap me with a ribbon

Why do you look for a dead among the living

Some thought I was crazy, some said I was missing

Some said I was lazy, some said I was different

I was so loaded, that everybody floated

But once I got the notice then I got focused

And then I saw the motive, so everybody bought it

So I did the way wrote it and live it the way I quote it

Come on

[Chorus]

Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me

When I'm down at the back, just keep it real

Gotta survive, gotta survive

Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me

(I'ma survivor, to survive)

So I try and to be all I can be (Survivor)

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me

Gotta survive (Mase), gotta survive (I'ma survivor)

[Verse 2]

Hold up, trying to tell me what I'm not

Pull up in the 'Bach, not I'm all of the sudden hot

Now they want to stop just to look at what I got

Thought they want my home man

Left me out to rot

So I had to make it on my own, take it on my own

I wanted out the hood I had to 'scape it on my own

Believe me now, it's easy now

'Cause everybody see me now and I'm on TV now (Woo)

But it started out with low budget

Then I took it around the world the folks love it

In the beggining man, my life it was so rugged

But now I shine like a gold nugget

'Cause I made the most of it

I know how you feeling man, I was weary

Some days I used to sit there, my eyes all teary

Thinking to myself, do anybody hear me

Now I know, you making it out

Is not a theory come on

[Chorus]

Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me

When I'm down at the back, just keep it real

Gotta survive, gotta survive

Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me

So I try and I try all I can be

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me

Gotta survive, gotta survive

[Verse 3]

I've been laughed at, talked about, ridiculed

But M Dot Betha is still not a bitter dude

And you know it's no coincidence

That me and you is not so intimate

I can't fake, I don't shake, I don't break

I don't lose, I don't use, I don't groove

I never lacked and I'm never going back

I'm nothing you ever sorrow

I'm telling you that I'm immortal

[Chorus]

Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me (I'ma survivor)

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me

(I'ma survivor)

When I'm down at the back just keep it real (I'ma survivor)

Gotta survive, gotta survive (I'ma survivor)

Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me (I'ma survivor)

So I try and try to be all I can

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me

Gotta survive, gotta survive

Got to, got to survive

Keep your head held high

Got to, got to survive

Keep your head to the sky

Got to, got to survive

We can make if we try

Got to, got to survive

Gotta survive, gotta survive

[Chorus]

Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me (Yeah)

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me

When I'm down at the back just keep it real

You know there is nothing in this world that could separate me

Gotta survive, gotta survive

Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me

From what I believe, from what I've achieved

So I try and try to be all I can

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me

All of this is because of him

Gotta survive, gotta survive

And I'm telling you now, as much as you all don't want to hear this

Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me

I could do nothing to myself

When I'm down at the back just keep it real

It's all through him, it's all through him

Gotta survive, gotta survive

Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me

So all around the world

So I try to be all I can be

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me

You don't even know success until you know him

Gotta survive, gotta survive

And Him is Jesus (Jesus)