Key: F minor
Verse 1
See, to live is to suffer
But to survive
Well, that's to find meaning
in the suffering
Verse 2
Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin',
Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin',
I gots to get up
Get me back on my feet
Verse 3
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Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin',
I can't get up
Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin',
Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin',
I gots to get up
Get me back on my feet
Verse 4
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I've been through mad different phases like mazes,
to find my way
And now I know that happy
If I'm strong enough I'll live long
enough to see my kids
with their time than bids
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I know because I been there
Now I'm in there,
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sit back and look at what it took for me to get there
First came the bullshit
the drama with my Mama
She got on some fly shit, so I split
E
G#m
And said that I'ma be that seed that
Strapped with mad greed and a heart
I'm ready for the world or
at least I thought I was
Baggin' niggas when I caught a buzz
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Goin' too fast, it wouldn't last but yo,
I couldn't tell
Group homes and institutions
They put me in a situation,
forcin' me to be a man
without a helpin' hand
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Damn, was it my fault?
Something I did?
To make a father leave his first kid,
Back on the scene at fourteen
with a scheme
ever seen in a dream
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And by all means I will
be livin' high off the hog
And I never gave a fuck
about much but my dog
hit off with my last
Just another little nigga
Verse 5
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Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin',
I can't get up
Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin',
Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin',
I gots to get up
E
Get me back on my feet so I can tear shit up
Verse 6
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E
Ay yo I'm slip pin', I'm fallin',
I can't get up
Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin',
Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin',
I gots to get up
Get me back on my feet
Verse 7
G#m
Actions become bolder, heart got colder
Chip on my shoulder that I
dared a nigga to touch
I scared a nigga that much
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One deep with the pit,
startin' shit for kicks
Catchin' vics, throwin' bricks,
Used to get high just to get by
Used to have to puff my L in the
I did some coke now I'm ready
Three years later showing
signs of stress
a fuck how I dressed
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I'm pos sessed by the darker side,
livin' the cruddy life
Shit like this kept a nigga
Wanna make records but
I'm fuckin' it up
I can't get up
Verse 8
Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin',
Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin',
I gots to get up
so I can tear shit up
Verse 9
G#m
E
Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin',
I can't get up
Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin',
Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin',
I gots to get up
Verse 10
can tear shit up
G#m
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Wasn't long before I hit rock bottom
Niggas talkin' shit, was like "Damn,
Open like a window, no more indo
say to myself "that could've been yo
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Ass on the TV",
believe me, it could be done
Somethin' gots to give,
I gots to do the right thing for shorty
drinkin' 40s
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So I get back lookin' type slick again
Fake niggas jump back on my dick again
that know how it feel
And much respect to all
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Kept a nigga strong,
kept a nigga from doin' wrong
Niggas know who they is and this
And to my boo who stuck
with a nigga through
All the bullshit,
Verse 11
Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin',
Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin',
I gots to get up
E
Get me back on my feet so I can tear shit up
Verse 12
G#m
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Ay yo I'm slip pin', I'm fallin',
I can't get up
Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin',
Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin',
I gots to get up
E
G#m
E
Get me back on my feet so I can tear shit
G#m
up
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