One Life Lyrics

One Life lyrics

1993, shortly before Thanksgivin'

I got the call she say Jamal, Derek is
no longer livin

Softly she spoke

Is this a joke?

Man, you
gotta be kiddin

As my question was raised this explanation was givin

A meaningless death 

Made me question the meaning of life

Does
my body remain at rest like when I'm sleeping at night?

Will I burn in
eternal hell?

Or will I find paradise?

Be rejected or ressurected
like the body of Christ

Is it like purgatory the story described by the
Catholics?

Or nirvana that Buddha saw in both theory and practice

Like I studied in my college phillosophy classes

Or do my molecules
and atoms travel back to the gases

I mean what I'd like to know 

Is
wheres my spirit go?

After the curtains close

On my final show

Is there a pain it brings?

Enjoy my favorite thing

Visit ancient
kings

Hear the angel sing

Who'll answers these said the great mcs

My man Gremel's battling a debilitating disease

He said "You see a
brother like me is full in the fight"

And everytime I question death my
only answer in life

Nigga fight



One life

Only god can
set me free

Am I living in this moment?

Am I living righteously?

It gets hard, but I know I've got to keep on

I'm tryin so hard to be
strong



Paralyzed on the bathroom floor by pain

Last month I
endured

But now I can't ignore

Feels like rail road spikes being
stuck in my liver

And my dyin eyes cryin', body startin to shiver

Crawl upstairs from the basement callin my sister

*sniff* Dawn, help
me, I ain't feelin to healthy

Stomach walls burnin

Head spinnin and
turnin

Waitin for the EMS 3:10 in the mournin

Rush me to emergency
screamin like a newborn

The pain's to str