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Lyrics for Living for the City by Rakim:
| | | Artist: | Rakim |
| | Album: | Visuals Unreleased Studio Set EP | | Track: | Living for the City | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 164 | | | | Lyrics: | In the city where life is animated with colors
Contaminated with aggravated brothers who
knows where the love is?
Growing up swinging through my upbringing
My limits is the
sky from the all eye seeing
Of so called realities filled with technicalities
I
watch my steps stay on my p's and check my casualties
Not to get played equipped with all
the tricks of the trade
I even learned from the mistakes that the next man made
I
know to choose and pick the people I grow up around
I know to grow and get to know the town
up and down
But there's no instructions, so many directions
A lot of crooks look to
get hooked with connections
Some thought they knew all adolescence could teach
They
graduated from school but fail life in the streets
Your pops taught you to strive and stay a
live, no ditty
It's easy to die when you're living for the city
That's how
I'm living (x3)
Yeah that's how I'm living
That's how I'm living (x3)
Yep
that's how I'm living
I grow according to my environmental habitat
I hang
where everything seem to happen at
I seen it all, and I've been doing that since I was small
Catch a flashback y'all, if I can recall
The days on the corner we watched the world
go by
Or nights that wasn't right like when a good friend dies
I quest for the best
for prepare for the worst
Never scared but I cared if I'm blessed or I'm cursed
Yes
I fear no man but Allah
I'm Gomar Oras Dubar
Which is God so It's hard to see Ra
I do what I gotta do, with or without a clue
Run through any obstacle including you
Cause I ain't got to bust you, cause I got the muscle
A push any clown that tries to
slow down my hustle
I gotta get by, but there's no time for pity
It's easy to die
when you're living for the city
That's how I'm living (x3)
Yeah
that's how I'm living
That's how I'm living (x3)
Yep that's how I'm living
That's how I'm living (x3)
Yep that's how I'm living
That's how I'm living
(x3)
Yeah that's how I'm living
I'm in a zone everywhere I seem to roam is
home
A rolling stone, I hold my own just like a microphone
I stay in tune, travel in
harmony and set the tone
Being young but I'm grown and well-known
Try to take me out
New York but you can't take New York out of me
Cause that's the only way that I know how to
be
My neighbors is jealous they label us drug sellers
We may be hood dwellers, we're
just a bunch of goodfellas
Cause we run wild with a passion, my style and my fashion
Is getting, kid, I'm making cash and crashing
Parties that everybody's talking about, we
turn it out
I'm just a native New Yorker with clout
I know my way around any borough
and any town
I make a lot of ground and I'm hard to be found
I get down to the nitty
gritty, wake up with something pretty
It gets me through another day living for the city
That's how I'm living (x3)
Yeah that's how I'm living
That's how I'm
living (x3)
Yep that's how I'm living
That's how I'm living (x3)
Yep
that's how I'm living
That's how I'm living (x3)
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