16 On Death Row lyrics

Artist  : 2pac 
Song : 16 On Death Row



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 Death Row
That's where motherf**kers is endin up

Dear mama, I'm caught up in this sickness
I robbed my adversaries, but slipped and left a
witness
Wonder if they'll catch me, or will this nigga
snitch
Should I shoot his bit*h, or make the nigga rich?
Don't wanna commit murder, but damn they got me
trapped
Hawkin while I'm walkin, and talkin behind my
back
I'm kind of schizophrenic, I'm in this sh*t to
win it
Cause life's a Wheel of, Fortune here's my chance
to spin it
Got no time for cops, who trip and try to catch
me
Too f**kin trigger happy, to let them suckers
snatch me
Niggaz gettin jealous (jealous) tryin to find my
stash
Whip out the nine, now I'ma dive and pump your
ass
Peter picked a pepper, but I can pick a punk
Snatched him like a bit*h, and threw him in the
trunk
The punk thought I was bluffin, but swear I'm
nothin nice
Before I take your life, first wrestle with
these, mics
I listen to him scream, Tray Deee went insane
I guess the little, mites had finally found his
brain
New Rovers pull me over, I'm sentenced to the pen
Remember that little, bird, he snitched and told
a, friend
It's trouble on my mind, I'm with the old timers
And f**k five-oh, blaow blaow.. turn em into
forty-niners

[Tupac sings]
Bye bye, I was never meant to live
Can't be positive, when the ghetto's where you
live
Bye bye, I was never meant to be
Livin like a thief, runnin through the streets
Bye bye, and I got no place to go...
Where they find me?  16 on Death Row

Dear mama, these cops don't understand me
I turned to a life of crime, cause I came from a
broken family
My uncle used to touch me, I never told you that
Scared what you might do, I couldn't hold you
back
I kept it deep inside, I done let it fuel my
anger
I'm down for all my homies, no mercy for a
stranger
The brother in my cell, is 16 as well
It's hard to adapt, when you're black and you're
trapped in a livin Hell
I shouldn'ta let him catch me
Instead of livin sad in jail I coulda died free
and happy
And my cellmate's raped on the norm
And passed around the dorm, you can hear his
asshole gettin torn
They made me an animal
Can't sleep, instead of countin sheep, niggaz
countin cannibals
And that's how it is in the pen
Turn old and cold, and your soul is your best
friend
My mama prayed for me
Tell the Lord to make way for me, prepare any day
for me (why?)
Cause when they come for me they find a struggler
To the death I take the breath from your jugular
The trick is to never lose hope
I found my buddy hangin dead from a rope, 16 on
Death Row

[Tupac sings]
Bye bye, I was never meant to live
Can't be positive, when the ghetto's where you
live
Bye bye, I was never meant to be
Livin like a thief, runnin through the streets
Bye bye, and I got no place to go...
Where you find me?  16 on Death Row

Dear mama, they sentenced me to death
Today's my final day, I'm countin every breath
I'm bitter cause I'm dyin, so much I haven't seen
I know you never dreamed, your baby would be dead
at 16
I got beef with a sick society that doesn't give
a shit
And they too quick to say goodbye to me
They tell me the preacher's there for me
He's a crook with a book, that motherf**ker never
cared for me
He's only here to be sure
I don't drop a dime to God bout the crimes he's
commitin
on the poor, and how can these people judge me?
They ain't my peers and in all these years, they
ain't never love me
I never got to be a man, must be part of some big
plan
to keep a nigga in the state pen
And to my homies out buryin motherf**kers
Steer clear of these Aryan motherf**kers
Cause once they got you locked up
They got you trapped, you're better off gettin
shot up
I'm convinced self-defense is the way
Please, stay strapped, pack a gat every day
I wish I woulda known while I was out there
Now I'm straight headin for the chair

[Tupac sings]
Bye bye, I was never meant to live
Can't be positive, when the ghetto's where we
live
Bye bye, I was never meant to be
Livin like a thief, runnin through the streets
Bye bye, and I got no place to go...
Where you find me?  16 on Death Row

16 on Death Row
It's to all my partners in the penitentiaries
16 on Death Row