lord thank you for the food that i m about to receive may it nourrish my body and keep my mind at ease but as far as my soul i been meanin to holler atcha and i know you been busy with niggas steady tryina catch ya gotta get somethin off my mind for a while cause when problems start to pile it gets kinda hard to smile but i keep my head up and try to hold on until my kids all grown i know one day that could be me lyin there in a hearse so i hope for the best prepare for the worst swearin i curse but really there s no harm done just havin fun but there s some who wanna take it and run i left a life of lootin and thievin and shit because my friends and my family was leavin me quick it seems everything is happenin without me knowin tryina stay sane but mayn this shit has got me goin goin crazy feelin like i m feelin but it s gonna be alright alright alright i m goin crazy feelin like i m feelin but it s gonna be alright alright alright alright it s hard to keep away from sin but you know i try and hopefully i get it together before i die thinkin the drank can ease my pain and tough luck but when i finish it just leaves me craned and fucked up call my folks to tell em how i feel before i get to speak they tell me someone else got killed slowly but surely they re goin one at a time i wish you could rewind and show em some kind of sign i realize i put my life on the line just bein born gotta git up git out no time to be snorin and just play with the cards i m dealt and if i lose i won t blame nobody else cause it s all about survival and the strongest survive but even the strongest won t make it alive cause death sneaks up from behind without you knowin and just the thought of it has got me goin  we are livin on a see sawer and when we fall it hurts we can t get up from the dirt like lotto you got a different number picked daily here one day and gone the next this shit crazy now i gotta work on gettin my brain back together be ready for whatever rain and bad weather had never seen so many dark clouds around a lotta strange looks and smiles turned to frowns maybe one day it ll all make sense when everybody s chillin on that other side of the fence but for now i just leave it up to the keeper be thankful for what he gave me chill out and smoke some reefer set all my problems aside for a few before i lose my cool do somethin i don t wanna do because i seen frustrations frequently flowin all i need is your strenght to keep me from goin 