Everyday Struggle (Hold On Be Strong)

Your life has been marked by considerable pain

Do you think you'll ever get to the point where you can live

A normal, happy life?

No, but I, I'm goin' for it.. I'm tryin' for it

And until then.. I have to make the life that I do live

As happy as I can and try to do the best with what I have

Do.. You know, live the best life I can live

Be as happy as I can be, nothing is perfect for anybody

I don't think

Thug for life, feel me? (that's right)

I know it seems hard sometimes, but

Remember one thing

To every dark night, there's a bright day after that

All my homeboys and my homegirls, stay strong

When things get bad, especially come the first and the fifteenth

So no matter how hard it get, stick you chest out, keep your head up

And handle it!

Hold on

I'll catch y'all up in the next life

We're in traffic

Ay do this Thug style main, Thug style

When this whole beat drop we just gon' run it to 'em bet

It's all good, uhh

I never had much, ran with a bad bunch

Little skinny kid sneakin' weed in my bag lunch

And all through Junior High, we was just gettin' by

And driveby's robbed my homies of their young lives

I never did cry, and even though I had

Pain in my heart, I was hopeless from the start

They couldn't tell me nothin', they all tried to help me

The marijuana had my mind gone it wasn't healthy

I travelled places, caught cases, what a ill year

I felt the pain and the rain but I'm still here

Never did like the police, let the whole world know

Now I gets no peace, cause they chasin' me down

And facing me now, what do I do?

These thangs that a Thug goes through

And still I rise so keep ya head up, and make ya mind strong

It's a struggle every day but you gotta hold on

I wish I could take the pain away

If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day

Everything will be alright if you hold on

It's a struggle everyday, you gotta roll on

There's, never a good day, cause in my hood they

Let they AK's pump strays where the kids play

And every Halloween, check out the murder scene

Can't help but duplicate the violence seen on the screen

My homies dyin' 'fore they get to see they birthdays

These is the worst days, sometimes it hurts to pray

And even God turned his back on the ghetto youth

I know that ain't the truth, sometimes I look for proof

I wonder if heaven got a ghetto, and if it does

Does it matter if you blood or you cuz

Remember how it was, the picnics and the parties in the projects

Small time drinkin' getting high with them armies

Just another knucklehead kid from the gutter

I'm dealin' with the madness, raised by a single mother

I'm tryin' to tell you when it's on

You gotta keep your head to the sky and be strong, most of all hold on

I know them ain't tears coming down your face

When it's on it's on but wipe your eyes

In this world only the strong survive y'know

Hmm, I know it's hard out there

Welfare, AIDS, earthquakes, muggings, carjackings

Yeah we got problems but believe me when I tell you

Things always get better God don't like ugly

And God don't like no quitters

You know what Billie Holiday said bay-bee

God bless the child that can hold his own

Y'know? You got to stand strong

And when these busters try to knock you out your place

You stand there to they face tell em hold on, and be strong

The game don't stop, hmmm

Hold on, and be strong, this here is Black Man

If you don't never leave nothin', learn one thing

It don't stop, til the casket drop

Hold on