"The Warning" lyrics

Dear god, I'm gonna teach you in this prayer
And I thank you for all the food you've given me
And all the health and strength
And may my family be held safely and strong
As well as myself
And I thank you for everything you've given me thus far, lord
And I beg your forgiveness
For I sin everyday
In your sons name, Christ Jesus
Amen

They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
'Cause this world wants me dead or alive
They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
'Cause this world wants me dead or alive

Nigga look at what the streets have done to me man
Hustling and struggling
I deserve a better hand
'Cause I'm running these streets under they say
Motherfuckers like you can't relate
'Cause you ain't all about the hustling all about the busting
All about the thugging, baby
Never let it go
If you gotta die, lie, shake it with a fo'-fo'
Then do so, 'cause that's the life you chose
Should've fallowed the cracks in the road
You heart and your soul
'Cause if there's one thing I know
Good niggas come and they go
Bitch niggas acting like ho's, merely needed to get treated like one
Hope you got yourself a gun niggas
'Cause you know I cock and blow niggas
And if right silent the temp, get on some shit
Go on out, six feet deep and slump niggas
'Cause I'm a survivor like Destiny's Children
To the day of my demise
I'ma ask the lord why

They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
'Cause this world wants me dead or alive
They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
'Cause this world wants me dead or alive

Take a look at what this worlds done made me
All I really want to do is be happy, and raise my family
But I'm strong, motherfuckers can't break me down
Niggas really gonna hate me now
As I'm giving a fuck
I'm tryna get my life together
Shit a nigga can't ride forever
Tryna see a hundred mil' or better
Before I die
Don't ask me why, I
Got a fascination with for freak ho's
New whips with two seats and two do's
I've been waiting so long to explode
Now watch me cock back and unload
Bullets going threw the chest and out the back
Shit is usually how the babry acts
Now the look in your face is so relaxed
Now your family moans and deals with that
But me, I'm a survivor like Destiny's Children
'Til the day of my demise
I'm gonna ask the lord why

They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
'Cause this world wants me dead or alive
They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
'Cause this world wants me dead or alive

They all want me dead
Why the fuck would they want to see me live?
So I'm gearing up to get into some shit
Niggas better kiss the wife and kids
It's just the way us niggas live
And I run with real niggas that run with big guns
That are designed to pop ya lid (Shit)
Never met a real nigga I didn't like
Never met a bitch nigga that I didn't fight
Now niggas gon' get down, and a nigga gon' lay down
Depending on how niggas view life
And you'll never look in my eyes
And you'll never, ever smile
'Cause your high, is coming down
And you can't touch me
But if you really wanna fuck with me
C'mon and get your heat my niggas
Don't you ever provoke my niggas
Don't ever doubt this nigga
'Cause I'm a survivor like Destiny's Child
'Til the day of my demise
I'm gonna ask the lord why

They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
'Cause this world wants me dead or alive
They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
'Cause this world wants me dead or alive

They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
'Cause this world wants me dead or alive
They all want me dead or alive
But they'll never take me alive
I'll get even before I die
'Cause this world wants me dead or alive