my sister can t afford me and there ain t no other way i need to find a place to stay or make my pennies in a harder way i m on 19 turnin 20 in months with all that stress on my chest i need to puff on some blunts now i m on the job hunt to put the food on my plate i gotta get this apc but all i g e t is section 8 checks from unemployment with assistance from the public the way i m falling down it s like my life is almost done with the way my confidence died it kinda makes me teary eyed the easy life i was denied now i m breaking down inside nowhere to hide but my life i gotta run with all these problems on my shoulders and they weigh out to a ton yeah i used to dream now i m runnin from a nightmare i used to have goals but now it seems like it was never there no one s aware of my silent cry for help they tend to walk on by and let it ride and go all out for delf i was put here now i m gonna leave here didn t ask for struggle and i didn t ask to be here and my situation some people thinkin suicide i m contemplating it s the time that i m wasting on the run with devil s chasin fallen busta rhymes my life my life my life my life mary j blige my life fallen cause in my physical i can t express through songs nas it ain t hard to tell i m slowly slipping through the cracks of this society they said i m gonna make it now i m thinkin that they lied to me i m in the race i never win cause in this world there ain t no finish line cause there s only time to shine then your life turns to a flat line for me to get mine is like a never ending story cause i ll never start to get it so there would be nothing for me got nothing but experience upon my resume but i never understood why i never got a decent pay i bust my ass i even went away for class for all the a to z s i had in life one on one i couldn t pass i guzzle down the crooked eye inhale the lah before i get my wings and fly i m gonna cut me out a piece of pie all i have is crumbs i wanna multiply my sums by the time my day will come i might be shaking hands with god s son my life is in the hole and i keep on falling deeper in a ditch i cry for help nobody hears me calling it s a cold cold world i wasn t born with a coat all i ever had was hope and all them rhymes that i wrote so through the walks in my life i m going out for a stroll to put it simple and plain it s just my life in the hole 1