Can I Live Lyrics

Can I Live lyrics

Can I live? Can I live?

Yeah, it's me, huh,  I know you all seen me

I'm the one who brings the blingin'

Pushin' whips and 22 inch chromes spinnin'

(Can I live?)



La da y'all wanna judge me?

Hair braided up, pants saggin'

Can I just live, yo?

(Yo, I'm just tryna live)



Why can't y'all leave me alone?

Man seem like everybody be judging me

Talkin' behind my back, fakin' the smiles and huggin' me

Pointin' fingers, hatin', jealous of my success

Praying for my downfall, can't handle me being blessed



Now you'd rather see me at the bottom of the totem poll

Scraping for dollars on the edge 'bout to lose control

Back on the corner, still livin' in the projects

Still strugglin' down and out with no prophets



Still drivin' through the hood in a bucket

I'm 'bout bringing my people over like I'm Harriet Tubman, huh

Been through the fire like Kanye West

Beat the odds, now I'm on shuffles and i-pods



See most of y'all could never reach stature

'Cuz half of you gangsta rappers is gangsta actors

And back-stabbers, y'all got the game backwards

But Bone and Darkchild make hits like linebackers



Can I live?

If you wanna be in my shoes then get in

You can talk the talk but don't live the life I live

So can I live? That's my question, can I?



Can I live?

If you wanna be in my shoes then get in

You can talk the talk but don't live the life I live

So can I live? That's my question, can I?



I shed blood, sweat and tears, been on this grind for years

I'm at the top of the charts, no respect from peers

I could be the franchise still I'm chastised

Spreading ya lies, need to recognize there's two sides



My whole life been the underdog

Against the odds, back still against the wall

Fighting to represent in the ring for God

Consciously makin' records for a different cause



This crab game keep pullin' me down

But like Ron Artest been known to rebound

And like Roy Jones, I'm pound for pound

Spittin' a different kind of message over platinum sounds



Can I get some love and a little respect?

Can I rock your world without giving you sex?

And can I live in peace? Man I paid my dues

You'll never know where I been until ya walked in my shoes



Can I live?

If you wanna be in my shoes then get in

You can talk the talk but don't live the life I live

So can I live? That's my question, can I?

  (Can I live yo?)



Can I live?

If you wanna be in my shoes then get in

You can talk the talk but don't live the life I live

So can I live? That's my question, can I?



Yeah, I'm in it for the long hall, committed to the end like John Paul

I'm tryin' to make a change, throw stones if I'm wrong

If you can do it better then by all means

Shoot for the stars but stop crushin' all my life's dreams



And let me fulfill my destiny and purpose

Why you try to make me feel no good and worthless?

This life is all a player got to give

So back up and give me room to breath, can I live?



Can I live?

If you wanna be in my shoes then get in

You can talk the talk but don't live the life I live

  (It ain't easy, yo)

So can I live? That's my question, can I?

  (Can I live, yo?)



Can I live?

If you wanna be in my shoes then get in

You can talk the talk but don't live the life I live

  (Ya ain't been in my shoes)

So can I live? That's my question, can I?



Can I live?

If you wanna be in my shoes then get in

  (Yeah, so hard, yo)

You can talk the talk but don't live the life I live

  (Just tryna be me)

So can I live? That's my question, can I?

  (It's only when I know how, yo)



Can I live?

  (Came from the ghetto I'm just tryin' to give back)

If you wanna be in my shoes then get in

  (Ya ain't ever walked in my shoes)

You can talk the talk but don't live the life I live

  (So y'all don't know what I've been through)

So can I live? That's my question, can I?

  (How can y'all judge me? Can I live, yo?)



I feel about myself in this world sometimes

Nobody relates what I've been tryna do for so many years

Just tryna make a change, make a difference in all your lives

Can I live? Can I live? Can I live?