Verse 1:
Living to die, feel like I'm dying to live/ counting blessings, still stressin once reality hit/ once you look in the mirror you get a glimpse of the pain/
Make up can’t hide the strain on ya face from the drain/
You feel the trauma from ya mama working hard to survive/ you and ya brotha switching couches and the floor every night/ and all that dying hurt, over the years losing peers/ plenty of cemetery visits taken as a kid/ plenty coke white, plenty crack rock/ plenty long nights and you working it over night/
You ever seen a body in the projects bleeding/ thinking bout if you should call for help or should you leave em/
But if u leave em you do nothing and then he die/ ya conscience get to thinkin you coulda helped him Survive/
But you know who shot em, and if you help him live- u might end up a target right where you lay ya head/ (look)
[Hook]
We strive to stay alive, riding round with that iron I'm focusing on the grind/
We clutchin to stay alive, tempted to do the race when the police jump behind/
We struggling to survive, to celebrate twenty five hit 30 be free & live/ a blessing to be alive, focusing on the grind/ a blessing to be alive/
[Verse 2]
Police sirens, cuz bullets is firin/ we got em pursuing us on feet/ gave chase, can't let em catch me, 2 9’s a nigga Gretzky/boy they finna throw the whole book at me/
Slave to this game called the street life/ it's rare to see a nigga make it out this street life/ Some niggas died cuz they got caught in that street life/ most that PTSD it's from that street life/
Look into the eyes of a child scorn/ a rose growing in the jungle but with wild thorns/ a horse locked up in the stable with a unicorn/ dodging handcuffs they make us sport em like a uniform/
We just put our hands up, they just gun us down/ don't want us in the mix cuz then we teach eachother how/ how to lift eachother up, adjust each others crown/ they rather see us dragging each other into the ground/
[Hook]
We strive to stay alive, riding round with that iron I'm focusing on the grind/
We clutchin to stay alive, tempted to do the race when the police jump behind/
We struggling to survive, to celebrate twenty five hit 30 be free & live/ a blessing to be alive, focusing on the grind/ a blessing to be alive/