Stay Down Lyrics

Stay Down lyrics

[Akon] 

How many days we gonna live our life struggling on the streets 

How many days we gotta live our life searching for a way to eat 

You gotta stay down stay down just to see a brighter day 

Stay down stay down just to live a better way 

Stay down stay down just to live a brighter day 

Stay down stay down just to live a better way 



[Flashy Verse 1] 

How many blacks gotta die by the hands of another 

Don't you understand that man's the same color so that man is your brother 

That's what happens when that man is from the gutter 

And that man is a hustler trying to survive, moving grams of that butter 

See, his momma was a dope fiend, poppa was a rolling stone 

he never knew what family was he grew up in a broken home 

Ever since twelve years old he was known as grown 

'cause ever since twelve years old he was on his own 

And even though it seemed like school was the best plan 

his only choice was distributing the rock like Def-jam 

While everybody else was getting diplomas 

he graduated from the middle of the strip to the corner 

But I don't knock him cause he tryin to bubble 

there's no food on the table, the rents past due and that's why he hustles 

and I ain't sayin that its right to be dealin 

All I'm sayin is I feel him I guess 

I just see eye 2 eye wit his struggle you know 



[Akon] 

How many days we gonna live our life struggling on the streets 

How many days we gotta live our life searching for a way to eat 

You gotta stay down stay down just to see a brighter day 

Stay down stay down just to live a better way 

Stay down stay down just to live a brighter day 

Stay down stay down just to live a better way 



[Flashy Verse 2] 

Now baby girl's got a promising future 

But her moms passed away while she was younger and her father's a loser 

He'd always abused her but what else you expect from a coward 

He wasn't even proud when she got accepted to Howard 

And even though she loves college everyday it would stress her 

but it wasn't cause of exams or she hate her professor 

it was her financial situation here she couldn't pay a semester 

And the only means of making it better was totally reversing the role 

lap dancing working that pole even though deep down its hurting her soul 

And even if it meant taking off her clothes 

she was down for what ever to help her accomplish her personal goals 

And I ain't trippin off a-how shortie livin 

She gotta pay her tuiton put food in the kitchen and that's why she strippin


and I ain't sayin I agree with her job but shit times is hard 

I guess I just see eye to eye with her vision you know 



[Akon] 

How many days we gonna live our life struggling on the streets 

How many days we gotta live our life searching for a way to eat 

You gotta stay down stay down just to see a brighter day 

Stay down stay down just to live a better way 

Stay down stay down just to live a brighter day 

Stay down stay down just to live a better way 



[Flashy Verse 3] 

Now see the moral of the story is this 

if you ain't tryin to help stop our troubles then don't knock our hustle 

cause really at the end of the day its not ya'll struggle 

but you always got something to say 

well hear this fuck you 

Yeah that's right I'm talking to you come try to sleep in our beds 

eat off our plates, take a walk in our shoes 

look at the world from our view try to live by our rules 

drink the same water we do, put your kids in our schools 

I guarantee you won't maintain your health you'll probably try to end it all


and hang yourself or bang yourself 

You couldn't possibly understand all pain we felt 

and without folding your hands play the games we dealt 

I'm being real I ain't tryin to be evil 

Look how we live, look how ya'll live 

c'mon be serious how is we equal 

Matter fact I feel I'm wasting my time 

I'm finished writing this rhyme 

Ya'll never gonna see eye to eye with my people you know 



[Akon] 

How many days we gonna live our life struggling on the streets 

How many days we gotta live our life searching for a way to eat 

You gotta stay down stay down just to see a brighter day 

Stay down stay down just to live a better way 

Stay down stay down just to live a brighter day 

Stay down stay down just to live a better way (Repeat 2X)