They wanna live my life
They wanna walk in my shoes
They have no idea

All my life
I`ve always been told
You gotta be prepared `cause the world is so cold
It`s lonely at the top `cause the bottom gets old
Never listen to `em just go for what you know, yea
All my life they told me stop tryin
I never been the one to not go and get mine
I never been the one to not put it on the line
And I`m a be this way all my life, yea
All my life...

(I take you to the gully streets,
With the gully god... Mavado get `em)

[Mavado:]
These streets is like a jungle and we`re like the lion
Many of times me haffi strap with me iron
Never scared, never fret
Gangsta for life til my last breath
Momma even if dem kill me don`t cry
I`m a gangsta for life, I was prepared to die
I`m a die rich, never die poor
Mansions in the sky, no more sleeping on the floor

All my life
I`ve always been told
You gotta be prepared `cause the world is so cold
It`s lonely at the top `cause the bottom gets old
Never listen to `em just go for what you know (yeah)
All my life they told me stop tryin
I never been the one to not go and get mine
I never been the one to not put it on the line
And I`m a be this way all my life (yeah)
All my life...

(From the streets of New York,
Where the streets don`t sleep... Shyne get `em)

[Shyne:]
All my life
I been rollin with the B`s and the C`s, 13`s and the kings
They greens in the pen
Steady duckin the police, ain`t a friend
Til they take me to hang and they fill me with lead
Like Fred Hampton for the people I bang
Til it come to an end I be bleeding in red
I live the story that you read in the Feds
Daddy wasn`t there but my momma was a gen
But I ain`t trippin though
That`s how I kill a foe
We gon get it straight so tell me what it`s hittin for
And if you didn`t know
I really live the low
I got the O`s and the Yo
Screamin really though

All my life
I`ve always been told
You gotta be prepared `cause the world is so cold
It`s lonely at the top `cause the bottom gets old
Never listen to `em just go for what you know (yeah)
All my life they told me stop tryin
I never been the one to not go and get mine
I never been the one to not put it on the line
And I`m a be this way

(All my life... Shyne get `em)

[Shyne:]
All my life I`ve been sufferin
Steady strugglin
I run the streets where they screen for the government
Harry C**berland coming from the cold
Got it like I`m Sutherland, but this ain`t 24
This a ode for the O`s and the Loc`s
Partna`s and the cookers doin life on the road
Long as you know you a part of Po
Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone
I spit the gully rap, I spend the bloody cash
I`m the shotta word to papa, where the money at?
I`m from the gully jack, where we bury rats
Ain`t nothin funny, put a bullet in ya skully cap

All my life
I`ve always been told
You gotta be prepared `cause the world is so cold
It`s lonely at the top `cause the bottom gets old
Never listen to `em just go for what you know (yeah)
All my life they told me stop tryin
I never been the one to not go and get mine
I never been the one to not put it on the line
And I`m a be this way all my life (yeah)
All my life...