This Can`t Be Life lyrics

Artist  : Jay-Z Featuring Beanie Sigel, Scarface 
Song : This Can`t Be Life
 


[Jay-Z]
Geah.. whassup?
Where's all my
street niggaz, project niggaz
Real niggaz,
worldwide
Let's reflect.. e'rybody got a
story
We all ghetto B - here's
mine
Geah

See I was -- born in sewage,
born to make bomb music
Flow tight like I was
born Jewish
Used the streets as a conduit - I
kept arms
38 longs inside my mom's Buick
At
any given moment Shawn could lose it, be on the
news
Iron cuffs - arms through it; or stuffed
with embalmin fluid
Shit, I'm goin through it
- mom dukes too
Tears streamin down her pretty
face, she got her palms to it
My life is
gettin too wild
I need to bring some sort
kinda calm to it
Bout to lose it; voices
screamin "Don't do it!"
It's like '93, '94,
bout the year
that Big and Mag dropped; and
"Illmatic" rocked
outta every rag drop, and
the West had it locked
Everybody doin 'em, I'm
still scratchin on the block
like "Damn; I'ma
be a failure"
Surrounded by thugs, drugs, and
drug - paraphenalia
Cops courts, and their
thoughts is to derail us
Three time felons in
shorts with jealous thoughts
Tryin figure
where your mail is, guesstimate the weight you
sellin
So they can send shots straight to your
melon; wait!
It gets worse, baby momma water
burst
Baby came out stillborn, still I gotta
move on
Though my heart still torn, life gone
from her womb
Don't worry, if it was meant to
be, it'll be -- soon

[Chorus:
Jay-Z]
This can't be life, this can't be
love
This can't be right, there's gotta be
more, this can't be us
This can't be life,
this can't be love
This can't be right,
there's gotta be more, this can't be
us

[Beanie Sigel]
Chill dog
Second
oldest born, from Michelle Brown my
mother
Hell bound, grew with two sisters and
one brother
Pop wasn't around, so many stories
that's another
I'm thinkin damn; how my older
sister gon' make me tougher
When steel
sharpens steel, I'ma keep it real
I'm tired of
tryin to hide my pain behind the syrups and
pills
Dead to the world, stretched out like a
corpse for real
Y'all niggaz thinkin what
y'all readin in The Source is real
What my
life like, you lookin at the source, it's
real
What your life like? Mine dog, of course
it's real
Passin judgment, you niggaz
second-guessin Beans
Cause you don't eat swine
don't make you Amin
Dog you know a couple
suras, out the Qur'an
I guess you all on your
din and I ain't on mine
Stop that Akki, 'fore
I send shots though your body
Make 'em feel
feel hell on earth before Allah drop thee
I
feel the line's drawn here, nuttin more can stop
me
Till them feds pick me up, or them boys pop
me
There's only three things that make Mac not
act like Beans
Amatullah Tisha, Po Aldin,
Samir Amin
My seeds dog, gotta teach 'em that
before I leave dog
Shit I know that I'ma see
'em when I leave dog
I come back in the
afterlife
Like fuck it I done touched hell
twice; what's the
meanin?

[Chorus]

[Scarface]
Yeah..
uhh..
Now as I walk into the studio, to do
this with Jig'
I got a phone call from one of
my nigs
Said my homeboy Reek, he just lost one
of his kids
And when I heard that I just broke
into tears
And see in the second hand; you
don't really know how this is
But when it hits
that close to home you feel the pain at the
crib
So I called mine, and saddened my wife
with the bad news
Now we both depressed,
countin our blessings cause Brad's two
Prayin
for young souls to laugh atlife through the
stars
Lovin your kids just like you was
ours
And I'm hurtin for you dog; but ain't
nobody pain is like yours
I just know that
heaven'll open these doors
And ain't no bright
side to losin lifel; but you can view it like
this
God's got open hands homey, he in the
midst.. of good company
Who loves all and
hates not one
And one day you gon' be wit your
son
I could've rapped about my hard times on
this song
But heaven knows I woulda been
wrong
I wouldn'ta been right, it wouldn'ta
been love
It wouldn'ta been life, it wouldn'ta
been us
This can't be
life

[Chorus]

[Jay-Z]
This can't
be life..