Tonart: E minor•
Verse 1
Em
G
C
Green life, it's so much trouble out here
D
Em
G
In the Valley of Decision,
C
out here by the river of Kabar
D
Em
The place of Livingstone,
G
C
we in the concrete jungle y 'all
D
Em
Oakland is my home
G
C
It's hard, I know, that's the way
Em
I saw a sister on the
corner turning tricks
G
C
Cause she's a bad girl, still her body for
G
Spending all your dividends that you got
C
From different men's on some crack
Em
while your children is in the back
G
C
Ain't got no clothes to wear for school
The white woman from the
G
calling you a unfit mother
C
Cause you trapped up in a maze,
D
coke smoke got you dazed
Em
Now they trying to take the little brothers
G
C
And the two little girls
D
that you brought into this world
Em
Turning them into another statistic
D
Of the ghetto where fair reform
Em
got your money's shoulder
G
Plus you older youngsters
C
round the corner for some boulders
D
They shout you on credit,
G
Think about how you let it slip
between your fingers
C
D
As I sit back and let the thought linger
G
C
It's taking our brothers
Em
G
Brothers are grinding, mothers are trying
D
but their mothers are dying
Em
G
Oh, hardship an d pain,
C
D
that's the struggle of the street life game
Em
G
C
It's hard, I know, that's the way
D
that the street life goes
Em
G
I walked in my homie's funeral last week
C
The tears rolled down his mother's cheek
D
Em
and it made me think I never tripped
G
when I was gunnin' and funnin'
C
But the things I did in the past
D
got me duckin', dodgin', runnin'
Em
D
And it ain't that I'm scared
G
C
But if a food store hits blast,
D
then it ain't like I'm gon' stand there
Em
G
See, mom's already lost my brother,
D
when I roam in the gutter
Em
G
But see, we droppin' like flies,
C
what's goin' on on the east
Em
Remember when we used to box,
G
C
but nowadays we grabbin' AKs
D
and springin' up the whole block
Em
Kid's gettin' caught up
C
before she reaches her teens,
D
Em
she's expired 12 years old
and it's a damn shame
G
C
D
Layin' in the middle of the nary slain
G
C
It's takin' our broth
ers on a one -way ride
D
Em
Brothers are grinding,
D
but the fathers are dying
Em
D
G
Oh, hardship an d pain
Em
D
G
It's hard, I know,
C
D
that's the way the street life goes
Em
Look, cusses on the corner,
C
Dope fiends all toe the hell up,
G
where everybody's out to get it
C
A lifestyle of a street hustler, man
D
Partner, can you deal with it?
Em
G
Only a chosen few gon' make them
C
Cause in this game, man,
you can't play
D
Em
Gangsters die every day, it's a cold plot
G
Man, you gon' learn a lot
C
You can't be faking the funk
D
You might get found in the trunk
Em
G
East Stokely, a cold city on the map
C
A million stories to be told,
Em
G
Our praise is due to the creator
C
Cause he controls the show,
the systems corrupt
Em
my hood is gangsta'd out
C
cause everyday I'm taking chances
D
Catchin' slugs in my chest
Em
G
Street life, is takin' our
D
Em
Brothers are grinding,
D
but their fathers are dying
Em
G
D
G
Oh, hardship an d pain
Em
G
It's hard, I know
C
D
That's the way the street life goes
G
C
It's taking our brothers
Em
G
Brothers are grinding, mothers are trying
D
but their fathers are dying
Em
G
Oh, heartache an d pain,
Em
G
It's hard, I know,
C
D
that's the way with the street life
Em
G
Oh, street life,
C
it's taking our brothers over the line
D
Em
Brothers are crying,
G
C
mothers are trying to raise their babies
D
But their mothers are dying
Em
G
All the tears an d pain
C
D
That's the struggle of the street life pain
Em
G
It's hard, I know
C
D
That's the way the street life
Em
G
C
goes
D
Em
G
C
D
to make you successful and make that
what you talk about, success,
you keep them out front.
Yes sir.
And by you keeping them out front,
you carry the other ones
that don't mention it
so that they can be able to make it
because they wouldn't be able
to make it on their own
by putting themselves out front.
That's true.
Yes sir.
Do understand what
Yes sir.
So by us mentioning it in its proper way
is what makes them successful,
what makes the Creator
make them successful.
Oh yes sir.
You understand, if we join them,
then they won't be successful
and neither will we.
That's true, sir.
We will be successful in
showing a successful side
of what you're not there to do.
Yes, sir.
Is that not true?
That's true, sir.
So that's why I'd like to the President
of United States of America
to have the person there, Master J,
that they work through,
they can make things,
they're going to make you
always keep it out front.
Yes, sir.
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