Living For The City lyrics

Artist  : Rakim 
Song : Living For The City
 


In the city where life is animated with
colors
Contaminated with aggravated brothers
who knows where the love is?
Growing up
swinging through my upbringing
My limits is
the sky from the all eye seeing
Of so called
realities filled with technicalities
I watch
my steps stay on my p's and check my
casualties
Not to get played equipped with all
the tricks of the trade
I even learned from
the mistakes that the next man made
I know to
choose and pick the people I grow up around
I
know to grow and get to know the town up and
down
But there's no instructions, so many
directions
A lot of crooks look to get hooked
with connections
Some thought they knew all
adolescence could teach
They graduated from
school but fail life in the streets
Your pops
taught you to strive and stay a live, no
ditty
It's easy to die when you're living for
the city

That's how I'm living
(x3)
Yeah that's how I'm living
That's how
I'm living (x3)
Yep that's how I'm
living

I grow according to my
environmental habitat
I hang where everything
seem to happen at
I seen it all, and I've been
doing that since I was small
Catch a flashback
y'all, if I can recall
The days on the corner
we watched the world go by
Or nights that
wasn't right like when a good friend dies
I
quest for the best for prepare for the
worst
Never scared but I cared if I'm blessed
or I'm cursed
Yes I fear no man but
Allah
I'm Gomar Oras Dubar
Which is God so
It's hard to see Ra
I do what I gotta do, with
or without a clue
Run through any obstacle
including you
Cause I ain't got to bust you,
cause I got the muscle
A push any clown that
tries to slow down my hustle
I gotta get by,
but there's no time for pity
It's easy to die
when you're living for the city


That's
how I'm living (x3)
Yeah that's how I'm
living
That's how I'm living (x3)
Yep
that's how I'm living

That's how I'm
living (x3)
Yep that's how I'm
living
That's how I'm living (x3)
Yeah
that's how I'm living

I'm in a zone
everywhere I seem to roam is home
A rolling
stone, I hold my own just like a microphone
I
stay in tune, travel in harmony and set the
tone
Being young but I'm grown and
well-known
Try to take me out New York but you
can't take New York out of me
Cause that's the
only way that I know how to be
My neighbors is
jealous they label us drug sellers
We may be
hood dwellers, we're just a bunch of
goodfellas
Cause we run wild with a passion,
my style and my fashion
Is getting, kid, I'm
making cash and crashing
Parties that
everybody's talking about, we turn it out
I'm
just a native New Yorker with clout
I know my
way around any borough and any town
I make a
lot of ground and I'm hard to be found
I get
down to the nitty gritty, wake up with something
pretty
It gets me through another day living
for the city

That's how I'm living
(x3)
Yeah that's how I'm living
That's how
I'm living (x3)
Yep that's how I'm
living

That's how I'm living (x3)
Yep
that's how I'm living
That's how I'm living
(x3)
Yeah that's how I'm living