If I Die Lyrics - Singles - Eightball & Mjg

Mic check one two 

You know when you lose somebody 

Somebody that's close to you 

Somebody that's probably not even that close to you 

You might have just know him 

It's hard to put it into words you know 

It's hard to say what you feel 

It's hard to say what you feel 

I guess, I guess all wounds heal over time, you know 

But uh all I can do now is reminisce 

Look at my homeboy lying there dead in the street 

His eyes wide open and it's fucking with me 

I can't believe this shit it really seems unreal 

My streetwise ass dog ended up getting killed 

We used to laugh but now this shit ain't funny at all 

Thinking about when my dog first started to ball 

Telling me I was blessed use my gift 

But it was hard to stay away from that gangsta shit 

(So hard) 

Young eyes attract glitter like glue 

Running with a crew doing everything they do 

Smoked out drinking mad dog and thunderbird 

My momma screaming but I swear I never heard a word 

My homeboy's momma cool but she smoke crack 

Now getting high is how she bring her son back 

Imagine that so many kids are living this 

One day my son will lose someone and reminisce 

I hope it's me when I'm a hundred and three 

Your homeboy getting killed that's some bad shit to see 

I hope you agree and make it better for the young ones 

'Cause these momma's can't take no more dead sons 

Can't you see the way we live? 

The world wouldn't spin without gangsta shit 

I don't know what you've been told 

But baby somebody told me 

(Only the strong will survive) 

If I die press play to bring me back to life 

(Only the strong will survive) 

Hey yo if I die press play to bring me back to life 

Riding around in a hoop smoked out behind tent 

Serving all day hitting corners getting bent 

Time went by quick when we was kicking it 

I wish that there was a way I could have predicted this 

Somehow thought the shit but I can't blame myself 

I just wish that death would have took somebody else 

That niggas' shorty looks just like he did 

So in a sense I guess my homeboy will live again 

In the eyes of his seed forever dead 

No one to call on when momma is doing bad 

Mad at the world for the pain he feels 

I pray to God that his momma shows him what's real 

Can't you see the way we live? 

The world wouldn't spin without gangsta shit 

I don't know what you've been told 

But baby somebody told me 

(Only the strong will survive) 

If I die press play to bring me back to life 

(Only the strong will survive) 

Hey yo if I die press play to bring me back to life 

Every day I thank God for watching over me 

If I didn't have rapping, I don't know where I would be 

Trying to move a key strong armed robbery 

My destiny could have been an early death of me 

Just to be alive pushing twenty-five 

I lived to talk about the shit many didn't survive 

All I ask is that we think about the lives passed away 

Never to see another sunny day 

From rocks in the hand to keys in the van 

No more being broke waiting on the postman 

Cost more than the time that you put into it 

Now you got the cheese why the fuck you still do it 

Greed a need to speed away your precious time 

Playa use your mind find yourself another grind 

If not for yourself for the kids' sake 

'Cause they'll all be where were all at today 

Can't you see the way we live? 

The world wouldn't spin without gangsta shit 

I don't know what you've been told 

But baby somebody told me 

(Only the strong will survive) 

If I die press play to bring me back to life 

(Only the strong will survive) 

Hey yo if I die press play to bring me back to life 

Man, oh, man, it's wild what these streets are doing to us 

You know what I'm saying? I was thinking I was telling my homie 

If I were to name all the people that I knew 

That was not here with us no more 

It would take a whole album, you know what I'm saying? 

So I wanna say rest in peace to my homeboy pinkhouse 

Rest in peace to my homeboy dice 

Who showed me much love in the short time I knew him 

Rest in peace to my homeboy, Nino 

Much love from the hood we still ride with ya