Live My Life-Murs

[ti:Live My Life] [ar:Murs] [al:F'Real] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Live My Life (过我的人生) - Murs [00:34.32]Born March '78 Feco and Carmone the Mid-City L A [00:38.24]Okay Liquor was on the corner [00:39.93]Basically raised on rap found ways to adapt [00:41.98]To every new hood I moved to [00:43.69]So way before "Colors" came out [00:45.50]We knew the differences between red and blue [00:48.15]Back then my whole crew all [00:49.47]Played Pop Warner football [00:50.82]From tiny mites to pee-wees [00:52.02]We'd be tight [00:53.15]Until we moved to the Valley [00:54.66]Neighborhoods was all white [00:55.98]Only blacks on the block [00:57.30]Can't count amounts of times [00:58.81]Somebody got socked for callin me out my name [01:01.90]But I still came up on game [01:03.53]Where I first learned to slang herb [01:04.92]And arranged words into the form of rhymes [01:07.18]But times got rough [01:08.44]Moms wasn't tryin to see me and my stepdad [01:10.64]Throw fisticuffs [01:11.34]So we moved back to the M-C [01:13.22]And that sh*t bent me [01:15.48]But it made my raps tighter [01:16.81]And so did my hustle [01:18.32]And after my first hustle [01:19.58]I was brought back to reality [01:21.28]And reminded respect didn't come [01:22.35] [01:23.13]Automatically [01:24.30]So I earned mine learned my claim [01:26.08]Got some beadies for my stress [01:28.08]And graffiti for my name [01:29.30]Ditchin school everyday just to [01:31.14]Kick it at the crib [01:32.38]Bein a bad-a** kid [01:33.39]But the older that you get the more [01:35.31]You're watchin how you live [01:36.71] [02:02.56]Now I claim a Legend [02:03.58]That's a lot to be Living up to [02:05.22]I dedicate my every word [02:06.43]To my niggaz who know how I feel [02:08.26]When yo' momma say she givin up on you [02:10.36]My luck was like that twenty-two CATCH [02:11.56]Cause what I wanted from life [02:13.49]And what I got didn't match [02:14.88]Lack of scratch got me itchin to hit licks [02:16.84]But now I watch the lil' homies [02:18.35]And realize I'm too old for that sh*t [02:20.05]That be on my mind [02:21.32]When I'm on my way to the train [02:22.96]When you're livin in Oakland [02:24.91]With L A on the brain [02:25.98]Too much anger to be contained [02:27.38]So the rap's my only outlet [02:28.72]Feelin like the deck was stacked [02:30.41]Against me since the outset [02:31.67]Niggaz from my hood lookin at me like [02:33.77]"Yo sh*t ain't out yet " [02:34.77]But only if they knew how much patience it takes [02:37.99]When you got a book full of headline stories [02:40.07]Just waitin to break [02:41.14]But when we do interrupt your normal [02:42.90]Schedule of events [02:43.85]The sh*t will be so bomb [02:45.23]A threat to national defense [02:46.61]Too late to mount the counter-assault [02:48.75]But thus far [02:49.45]I've focused four years of my life on [02:51.46]Infiltration of the Walkman [02:52.47]For domination of the asphault [02:54.11]Doin what the f**k I want [02:56.37]While these b**ch niggaz talk [02:57.88] Y'know run your mouth all you want [03:00.62]Doin what the f**k I want [03:02.13]But while you b**ch niggaz talk I'll [03:04.25] [03:25.94]I mean sh*t it's a nice world if [03:27.58]I was to actually believe [03:28.59]Everything they tellin me [03:29.55]But I know better than that sh*t [03:31.20]So I'm out to get a little scratch and [03:32.79]That Spice Girl Melanie B [03:34.17]You see no great expectations [03:36.42]Just out to enjoy this sh*t until [03:38.37]My date of expiration [03:39.45]Hopin my a** will age like fine wine [03:41.50]Cause there's so much to do [03:43.20]And such little time [03:44.34]So I'll be damned if I waste my days [03:46.28]For minimum wage [03:47.48]As a slave or have some professor that's overpaid [03:50.31]Control the way that I behave [03:51.76]Afraid of commitment homey [03:53.52]I think not [03:54.40]Cause I'm committed to these beadies and this music [03:56.85]Cause it's all that I got [03:58.63]Cancer and some answers to some [04:00.14]Questions posed to oneself [04:01.46]And recited in the hopes they felt by someone else [04:04.23]But this five dollar ring on my [04:05.99]Hand stamps out the reminder [04:07.44]You can't always have everything that you want [04:10.84]Cause rejection hurt like a motherf**ker [04:12.66]Ni**a I won't front [04:14.19]Heart broke like my pockets and dreams [04:16.09]So now I'm on the hunt to see if it's possible [04:18.56]To fix three things at once while I