Can I Live Lyrics - Reasonable Doubt - Jay-z

Yeah, (hah, yeah) Roc-A-Fella 

We invite you to, somethin epic y'all know?(something, something) 

Well we hustle out of a sense of, hopelessness 

Sort of a desperation(live nigga) 

Through that desperation, we 'come addicted 

Sorta like the fiends we accustomed to servin 

But we feel we have nothin to lose(everything to gain) 

so we offer you, well, we offer our lives, (right) 

What do you bring to the table? 

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While I'm watchin every nigga watchin me closely 

my shit is butter for the bread they wanna toast me 

I keep my head, both of them where they supposed to be 

Hoes'll get you sidetracked then clap from closed feet 

I don't sleep, I'm tired, I feel wired like codeine, these days 

a brother gotta admire from four fiends away 

My pain wish it was quick to see, from sellin 'caine 

til brains was fried to a fricaisse, can't lie 

At the time it never bothered me, at the bar 

gettin my thug on properly, my squad and me 

lack of respect for authority, laughin hard 

Happy to be escapin poverty, however brief 

I know this game got valleys and peaks, expectation 

for dips, for percipitation we stack chips, hardly 

The youth I used to be, soon to see a mill'in 

No more, Big Willie my game has grown prefer you call me William 

Illin for revenues, Rayful Edmund-like 

channel 7 news, round seven jews, hand dead on the mic 

Forgettin all I ever knew, convenient amnesia 

I suggest you call my lawyer, I know the procedure 

Lock my body can't trap my mind, easily 

explain why we adapt to crime 

I'd rather die enormous than live dormant that's how we on it 

Live at the main event, I bet a trip to Maui on it 

Presidential suites my residential for the weekend 

Confidentially speakin in codes since I sense you peekin 

The in excess rental, don't be fooled my game is mental 

We both out of town dog, what you tryin to get into? 

Viva, Las Vegas, see ya, later at the crap tables 

meet me by the one that starts a G up 

This way no fraud Willie's present gambling they re-up 

And we can have a pleasant time, sippin margaritas 

Ge-ge-geyeahhh, can I live? 

Can I live? 

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My mind is infested, with sick thoughts that circle 

like a Lexus, if driven wrong it's sure to hurt you 

Dual level like duplexes, in unity, my crew and me 

commit atrocities like we got immunity 

You guessed it, manifested intangible goods 

Platinum Rolexed it, we don't lease 

we buy the whole car, as you should 

My confederation, dead a nation, EXPLODE 

on detonation, overload the mind of a said patient 

When it boils to steam, it comes to it 

we all fiends gotta do it, even righteous minds go through this 

True this, history school us to spend our money foolish 

Bond with jewelers and, watch for intruders 

I stepped it up another level, meditated like a Buddhist 

Recruited lieutenants with ludicrous, dreams of 

gettin cream let's do this, against T-D-S 

So I keep one eye open like, C-B-S, ya see me 

stressed right? Can I live? 

Can I live? 

Can I live? 

Can I live? 

Ha-hah, Roc-A-Fella y'all