Gotta Survive (Album Version)-Mase

[ti:Gotta Survive (Album Version)] [ar:Mase] [al:Welcome Back] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.10]Gotta Survive (Album Version) - Mase [00:00.20]Written by：M. Betha/C. Cole/Erica Dymakkus [00:00.30] [00:01.34]I don't regret nothing that I have ever done [00:04.32] [00:05.61]At this point I don't owe nobody an explanation [00:08.10] [00:11.26]Man they love you when you up [00:12.92]Kick you when you down [00:14.14]Look around VH1 man where are they down [00:16.85]Life is amusing nobody like to see you cruising [00:20.47]But everybody like to see you losing [00:22.87]So I stop despise on top of lies [00:25.53]And if it prophesized I'll be ostracized [00:28.43]One day I lost my rodium [00:30.18]On the day I hit the podium [00:31.72]Now I'm back on top and salty like sodium [00:34.34]A gift to this world man wrap me with a ribbon [00:37.34]Why do you look for a dead among the living [00:40.28]Some thought I was crazy some thought I was dissing [00:42.98]Some said I was lazy some said I was different [00:46.02]I was so loaded that everybody floated [00:48.66]But once I got the notice then I got focused [00:51.80]And then I saw they motive so everybody rode it [00:54.55]So I did the way wrote it [00:55.94]And live it the way I quote it come On [00:57.96]Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me [01:00.69]When it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me [01:03.48]When I'm down at the back just keep it real [01:06.27]Gotta survive gotta survive [01:09.20]Gotta Survive in this life that's being given to me [01:12.07]So I try and I try to be all I can be [01:14.99]When it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me [01:17.81]Gotta survive gotta survive [01:19.97]Hold up trying to tell me what I'm not [01:22.58]Pull up in the 'Bach not I'm all of the sudden hot [01:25.43]Now they want to stop just to look at what I got [01:28.26]Thought they want my home man left me out to rot [01:31.26]So I had to make it on my own [01:33.52]Take it on my own [01:34.86]I wanted out the hood [01:35.94]I had to 'scape it on my own [01:37.74]Believe me now it's easy now [01:39.89]'Cause everybody see me now and I'm on TV now [01:43.19]But it started out with low budget [01:45.27]Then I took it around the world the folks love it [01:48.24]In the beginning man my life it was so rugged [01:51.02]But now I shine like a gold nugget [01:52.99]'Cause I made the most of it [01:55.00]I know how you feeling man I was weary [01:57.78]Some days I used to sit there my eyes all teary [02:00.72]Thinking to myself do anybody hear me [02:03.47]Now I know you making it out [02:05.49]Is not a theory come on [02:06.89]Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me [02:09.61]When it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me [02:12.59]When I'm down at the back just keep it real [02:15.28]Gotta survive gotta survive [02:18.28]Gotta Survive in this life that's being given to me [02:21.17]So I try and I try to be all I can be [02:24.08]When it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me [02:26.91]Gotta survive gotta survive [02:29.20]I've been laughed at talked about ridiculed [02:32.46]But I got a Bentley and I'm still not a bitter dude [02:35.62]And you know it's not coincidence [02:37.94]That me and you is not so intimate [02:40.78]I can't fake I don't shake I don't break [02:44.19]I don't lose I don't use I don't groove [02:47.02]I never lacked and I'm never going back [02:49.40]I'm nothing you ever sawd of [02:51.09]I'm telling you that I'm immortal [02:52.67]Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me [02:55.61]When it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me [02:58.64]When I'm down at the back just keep it real [03:01.45]Gotta survive gotta survive [03:04.40]Gotta Survive in this life that's being given to me [03:07.11]So I try and I try to be all I can be [03:10.12]When it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me [03:12.99]Gotta survive gotta survive [03:16.09]Got to got to survive [03:19.23]Keep your head held high [03:21.77]Got to got to survive [03:24.96]Keep your head to the sky [03:27.72]Got to got to survive [03:30.54]We can make it if we try [03:33.33]Got to got to survive [03:36.55]Gotta survive gotta survive [03:38.87]Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me [03:41.90]When it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me [03:44.65]When I'm down at the back just keep it real [03:47.49]Gotta survive gotta survive [03:50.04]Gotta Survive in this life that's being given to me [03:53.20]So I try and I try to be all I can be [03:56.08]When it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me [03:58.95]Gotta survive gotta survive [04:01.76]Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me [04:04.79]When it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me [04:07.62]When I'm down at the back just keep it real [04:10.51]Gotta survive gotta survive [04:13.27]Gotta Survive in this life that's being given to me [04:16.20]So I try and I try to be all I can be [04:19.05]When it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me [04:22.06]Gotta survive gotta survive