[DMX]
Uhh.. this is life (this is life)
This is what I know (this what I know)
So to me (so to me) this is life (this is life)

 [bad word]  DMX (repeat 2X)]

One more road to cross
One more risk to take
Gotta live my life
like there's one more move to make

[DMX]
I'm up at like 6 AM, to check this [bad word] 
He work the nightshift, and I gots to check them figures
Knock on his door, peoples talkin bout, "He ain't there,"
but the house is packed, [bad word] I know he here somewhere
See money get high, I don't knock what a [bad word] do to get by
Just make sure you gettin by don't [bad word] with you gettin mine
Ain't the first time he ran off, shoulda split his [bad word] then
Hate to think of what he's did and if I catch him slippin
won't be an [bad word] whippin, I can tell you that
I keep it real with this cat, he go and sell two packs
 [bad word] off [bad word]  tell me, he was locked down, up North
and you out a week later? That's [bad word] #33;
I bust off, I need this dough
 [bad word] you think I'm here for my health?
I need this wealth, because I feed myself
You play with my life, when you play with my money
Playin around but this'll be the last time you think somethin's funny

 [bad word] 

[DMX]
Yo, I've been casin the liquor store, for a month now
with me and two other niggaz, is about [bad word] up in there and shut it down
I got four people on the inside, one stay in the back
Two stock boys, one at the register but he count the stacks
Aight [bad word]  put on the ski mask, make sure that when we ask
for the dough they know that we takin all three bags
Now see that? You gotta hero, shoot that [bad word] 
Matter of fact, you hit the back, I'll put two in that [bad word] 
Hardhead [bad word] always get it
I told him what would happen if he moved the [bad word] moved so I did it
Did you get it? I asked my man as he [bad word] from the back
 [bad word] opened his mouth said nothin and fell out flat
This [bad word] out spittin, hittin my mans, his mans
Couldn't control what was in his hands
I'm hit, [bad word] #33; I bust back, and got the [bad word] up out of there
Didn't get a dime, but at least I got up out of there

 [bad word] 

[DMX]
Aiyyo I see it, try to avoid it, but [bad word] 
That's how it's goin in the slums over [bad word] 
Somethin little [bad word] somethin major
Niggaz gettin blown up like a pager
Ear to ear with the razor, pour out my soul
Took control of hurt, why must Earl Simmons, swim in dirt?
I'm gon' make it work, twenty-eight and tryin to get, baptized
Priest cannot touch me cause he said I gave him bad vibes
Ryde, when I Die, straight down, but I'm plottin
We all gots to go but who wants to be forgotten?
I'ma leave a mark, and it won't be the mark of the devil
Throw dirt and may your hands burn when you touch the shovel
The level of animosity is stoppin me from thrivin
 [bad word] what them niggaz is talkin about, I'm survivin
Alive and goin through it, but I made my bed
So now it's in these flames that I, lay my head

 [bad word] 2X]