Hook: This life is my story got to tell them don't ignore me. I've drove these roads and walked these streets a thousand times. And as the days go by I always try to be who I am, to be who I am, to be who I am.
This is me my life true story momma lost her job sent us to live with our pops
In the big city nothing like the small town life look at all these lights fast pace living got my mind in a race man I feel outta place look at all these people pulled up to the high rise couldn't believe my eyes Cleveland lit up in the skyline no more being on the bottom now I feel like im on top see ya momma now its my time to be a man first day school my sis n me was scared as hell they told me they didn't like me like I couldn't tell shitsa looking like shista looking like a jail cell man I never thought id be telling this tale
Hook: This life is my story got to tell them don't ignore me. I've drove these roads and walked these streets a thousand times. And as the days go by I always try to be who I am, to be who I am, to be who I am.
Fist fighting after school no choice they aint tryna hear my voice this is what its like to be a minority walking the tracks home from school choppers in the sky dealas asking if I wanna get high chill man im just tryna get by sirens up and down the block pheines on the corner smoking rock going home to no food in the frigerator, first indicator. Might have to meet these street educators gotta watch your back theirs lots of perpetrators watched the hustlers everyday made a couple friends taught me how to turn a dollar into ten now im on a mission hustlers ambition this is a place where you gotta trust your intuition now my dads bitchin (Son, where you get that money at?)
Hook: This life is my story got to tell them don't ignore me. I've drove these roads and walked these streets a thousand times. And as the days go by I always try to be who I am, to be who I am, to be who I am.
This is me, this is my life. The struggles I went through made me who I am today. Don't ever regret the things that made you who you are. Always believe in yourself no matter what anyone says.
Now im kicked out the house only 17 walking the streets all alone ain't no time to cry
Just gotta man up and get by staying drunk and high man this kinda life isn't pretty taking trips to ohio city duffle bag stuffed with pizzys put the hizheat under the sizseat watch the rollers crizeep weeks turn to months, months turn to a year. now I got my own spot a lot of jealous mafuckas cuz they know I got a lot now the swat kicking in my spot was it really worth all I got? (Absolutely not)
Hook: This life is my story got to tell them don't ignore me. I've drove these roads and walked these streets a thousand times. And as the days go by I always try to be who I am, to be who I am, to be who I am.