rollin down the highway with a trunk full of work i just lost my job didn t wanna be a mail room clerk besides it didn t pay but dimes and the boss had a disrespectful mouth if i wasn t on parole i would ve knocked the motherfucker out so i m drivin gotta get me some fast cash and ain t tryna hurt nobody mama maybe it s wrong but i gotta get the money it s a must have if i get caught i go back to jail with no bail it s the risk that i m takin i m convinced so ain t fakin it s the life i choose win or lose that s the way you play life s game if you play it wrong then you re the one to blame if i could choose i would make a change but it s the same old song that everybody shame now i m my own boss and i ain t got no friction cause i m a bootleg pharmacist you don t need no prescription got a clientele that s a mile long tryna get the dough and retire cause if i stay in it too long the feds gonna set my ass on fire and if they come gotta hold court in the streets and one of three things will happen i get away get the chair or die cappin and if they catch me right and i can t fight i go back to prison and like my mama say you can t always bust your gun chico sometimes you gotta run win or lose that s the way you play life s game if you play it wrong then you re the one to blame if i could choose i would make a change but it s the same old song that everybody shame all the odds are against me cause i m already a felon i d probably die this time in jail cause i ain t doin no tellin i ll probably lose the girl that i love she ll turn her back once the money s spent and play it off to her friends like it was a heated argument win or lose that s the way you play life s game you can only lose then you re the one to blame if i could choose i would make a change that everybody shame the money money money money baby the money money money money that s all you think about baby the money money money money baby oooh oh to the mothers watching over you know the game ain t fair sometimes you can t change their mind so all you got is prayer and if you re tryna be the man and a child you gotta raise don t let nobody put you in the grave cause money ain t worth losin your life take a look at your friends in the pen doin time they probably got for petty drug crimes win or lose that s the way you play life s game listen i ain t got that much time only four minutes to sing to you but i hope and pray that you will listen while i try to school you bad game bad game nobody wins that everybody shame