"This Life" lyrics

Ra, rah

New number, new phone
New address, new home
I just wanna be left alone
I can't escape all these thoughts that I keep in my dome
See, I never was a people person
I was always searchin' for what wasn't worth it
Nothing's ever certain in this life on earth
We always give a lot to people who just don't deserve it

Still, we gotta learn to love one another
Not divided by race or a color
'Cause in the end, we're all sisters and brothers
And colors can't stop us from loving each other
I was born in a world so cold
But that's life as we've all been told
But is it living when no food is in your kitchen
And the only way to get it is when drugs get sold?

I wasn't born with a silver spoon
Or a house that have five bedrooms
I was raised for the Goomisip goons
To the rise of the sun and the fall of the moon
And this life seems oh-so crazy
16, nearly had my first baby
17, sellin' dope from the house
Putting tears in the eyes of the woman that made me

And this life seems oh-so crazy
This life seems oh-so cold
This life may one day break me
This life might take my soul
(This life, this life)
This life seems oh-so crazy
(This life, this life)
This life seems oh-so crazy

And this life seems oh-so crazy
This life seems oh-so cold
This life may one day break me
This life might take my soul
(This life, this life)
This life seems oh-so crazy
(This life, this life)
This life seems oh-so crazy

No justice, no pace
No voice, no speech
No point in even tryin' to speak
Unless you're showin' ID to them punk police
They got us locked in chains, it all seems strange
See your brother goes in then he leaves insane
Things will never be the same
Until he ends the cycle of the system's game

A victim's pain in the ghetto
Never said much, was a quiet little fellow
A son, local, calm and mellow
Tattood on his arm was the red, black and yellow
Where he wears his pride
Deep inside, an intelligent mind just lost in time
All he really had was a beat and a rhyme
And a mother that did anything to watch him shine

This life of mine
Ain't the one that I thought it would be
Poppin' them bottles and smokin' that weed
Things don't always be what they seem
This world I see
Ain't gonna last too long
And I must be a fool to really think that
I coulda changed it all with a song
But still I try
(This life, this life, oh-so crazy)

And this life seems oh-so crazy
This life seems oh-so cold
This life may one day break me
This life might take my soul
(This life, this life)
This life seems oh-so crazy
(This life, this life)
This life seems oh-so crazy

And this life seems oh-so crazy
And this life seems oh-so cold
This life may one day break me
This life might take my soul
(This life, this life)
This life seems oh-so crazy
(This life, this life)
And this life seems oh-so crazy