Jay Can I Live Lyrics

Can I Live Lyrics

Yeah, hah, yeah Roc-A-Fella 

 We invite you to, somethin epic y'all know? 

 Well we hustle out of a sense of, hopelessness 

 Sort of a desperation 

 Through that desperation, we 'come addicted 

 Sorta like the fiends we accustomed to servin 

 But we feel we have nothin to lose 

 so we offer you, well, we offer our lives, right 

 What do you bring to the table? 

  

 While I'm watchin every nigga watchin me closely 

 my shit is butter for the bread they wanna toast me 

 I keep my head, both of them where they supposed to be 

 Hoes'll get you sidetracked then clap from closed feet 

 I don't sleep, I'm tired, I feel wired like codeine, these days 

 a brother gotta admire from four fiends away 

 My pain wish it was quick to see, from sellin 'caine 

 til brains was fried to a fricaisse, can't lie 

 At the time it never bothered me, at the bar 

 gettin my thug on properly, my squad and me 

 lack of respect for authority, laughin hard 

 Happy to be escapin poverty, however brief 

 I know this game got valleys and peaks, expectation 

 for dips, four percent pertation we stack chips, hardly 

 The youth I used to be, soon to see a mill'in 

 No more, Big Willie my game has grown prefer you call me William 

 Illin for revenues, grateful dim the light 

 channel 7 news, round seven jewels, hand gettin the mic 

 Forgettin all I ever knew, convenient amnesia 

 I suggest you call my lawyer, I know the procedure 

 Lock my body can't trap my mind, easily 

 explain why we adapt to crime 

 I'd rather die enormous than live dormant that's how we on it 

 Live at the main event, I bet a trip to Maui on it 

 Presidential suites my resedential for the weekend 

 Confidentially speakin in codes since I sense you peekin 

 The INXS rental, don't be fooled my game is mental 

 We both out of town dog, what you tryin to get into? 

 Viva, Las Vegas, see ya, later at the crap tables 

 meet me by the one that starts a G up 

 This way no fraud Willie's present gambling they re-up 

 And we can have a pleasant time, sippin margaritas 

 Ge-ge-geyeahhh, can I live? 

 Can I live? 

  

 My mind is infested, with sick thoughts that circle 

 like a Lexus, if driven wrong it's sure to hurt you 

 Dual level like duplexes, in unity, my crew and me 

 commit atrocities like we got immunity 

 You guessed it, manifest it in tangible goods 

 Platinum Rolexed it, we don't lease 

 we buy the whole care, as you should 

 My confederation, dead a nation, EXPLODE 

 on detonation, overload the mind of a said patient 

 When it balls to steam, it comes to it 

 we all fiends gotta do it, even righteous minds go through this 

 True this, history school us to spend our money foolish 

 Bond with jewellers and, watch for intruders 

 I stepped it up another level, meditated like a buddhist 

 Recruited lieutenants with ludicrous, dreams of 

 gettin cream let's do this, against T-D-S 

 So I keep one eye open like, C-B-S, ya see me 

 stressed right?  Can I live? 

 Can I live? 

 Can I live? 

 Can I live? 

 Ha-hah, Roc-A-Fella y'all