y'all need to stop playing with me put me on gotta get it how you live had to hop out the field and if you got a problem come figure how these knuckles fill ain't no Poppin pill had to learn a couple skills quit touching on the steel put my hands to work I'm starting to love being on this Earth struggle can't hold me down ain't no more hurt pain free best I can be tryna stay out the street so many bad vibes almost had me beat put the power to my mind need some I can stand behind for a sec I turned blind to the fact life ain't no joke can't just stand around and choke it's come up for this new gin it's time to let the messages began theres a time when the struggles ends I'm not gone make the same mistakes once again gotta get it how you live if you feeling the struggle still best believe there's a way gotta learn not to play put the focus to the money can't be out here acting like a dummy gotta get it how you live its insane in the 314 that my st.louis area code I ain't out here tryna pour a for or put some coke up my nose focused on the future tryna do my thang I'm the only person that I got to blame gotta get it how I live