"Eat To Live" lyrics

Yeah, this is a ghetto prayer
Praying for all of those who ain't got it
We gotta get it there, we gotta get it, yeah
Yeah, the people starving for something new, we starving for it
(My tummy hurts, I couldn't eat)
Mm mm, mm, mm
(Did you have fun at school today, Trey?)

My little man go to bed so hungry
Get up, go to school with his nose runny, come home with his nose bloody
His sister laughing, he like "What's so funny?"
'Til she drowned out by the sounds of hunger pains in his tummy
Nothing in the freezer, nothing in the fridge
Couple of 40 ounces but nothing for the kids
Little man know to eat to live but he don't wanna leave the crib
The kid who punched him in his face house right down the street from his
He went anyway, more scared to face his moms
She'll beat him soon as she flip out, seeing his face scarred
Walking past the dope fiends with their smoke to the place of God
Hopes and dreams pouring out the holes in their face and arms
Little man in the face of harm if he don't eat
He need energy so when he go to school he can compete
And keep up, all he got is bodegas
But hey, he only got enough for a quarter water and a Now Or Later
Anyway, grandma say Jesus'll be here any day
Good, cause with nothing to eat it's getting hard to pray, pray
Pray, pray, pray

In order to receive, then we need to give ('Bout the hungry babies?)
We gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to live
In order to receive, then we need to give
We gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to live
In order to receive, then we need to give ('Bout the hungry babies?)
We gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to live
In order to receive, then we need to give
We gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to live

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My rhymes got nutritional value
I get it how I live, it's critical when the conditions allow you
Do you don't trust the critics who doubt you
Try to write shit about you but they can't make a living without you
Go hungry, you gotta watch what the media feed ya
And don't be a poisoned animal eater neither
It's harder than it sound 'cause nowadays, put that swine in everything
The white sugar so addictive it's pure 'caine
They got pork in the toothpaste, soda in the Sunny D
Jello brand gelatin is laced with the lecithin
In Africa, they're starving, over here the food hurt you
Cows going mad and the chickens crunk with bird flu
It's too ill how the food kill it's like blue steel
Lies never set you free, but the truth will
The truth still matter the proof is in the batter or the pudding
You can tell we eating good, we getting fatter

In order to receive, then we need to give ('Bout the hungry babies?)
We gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to live
In order to receive, then we need to give
We gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to live
In order to receive, then we need to give ('Bout the hungry babies?)
We gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to live
In order to receive, then we need to give
We gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to live

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