Can I Live Lyrics - Singles - Black Rob

Yeah, yeah Roc-A-Fella 

We invite you to, something epic y'all know? 

Well we hustle out of a sense of, hopelessness 

Sort of a desperation 

Through that desperation, we 'come addicted 

Sorta like the fiends we accustomed to serving 

But we feel we have nothing to lose 

So we offer you, well, we offer our lives, right 

What do you bring to the table? 

While I'm watching every nigga watching me closely 

My shit is butter for the bread they wanna toast me 

I keep my head, both of them where they supposed to be 

Hoes'll get you sidetracked then clap from closed feet 

I don't sleep, I'm tired, I feel wired like codeine, these days 

A brother gotta admire from four fiends away 

My pain wish it was quick to see, from selling 'caine 

Til brains was fried to a fricassee, can't lie 

At the time it never bothered me, at the bar 

Getting my thug on properly, my squad and me 

Lack of respect for authority, laughing hard 

Happy to be escaping poverty, however brief 

I know this game got valleys and peaks, expectation 

For dips, four percent pertation we stack chips, hardly 

The youth I used to be, soon to see a mill'in 

No more, Big Willie my game has grown prefer you call me William 

Illin' for revenues, grateful dim the light 

Channel 7 news, round seven jewels, hand getting the mic 

Forgetting all I ever knew, convenient amnesia 

I suggest you call my lawyer, I know the procedure 

Lock my body can't trap my mind, easily 

Explain why we adapt to crime 

I'd rather die enormous than live dormant that's how we on it 

Live at the main event, I bet a trip to Maui on it 

Presidential suites my residential for the weekend 

Confidentially speaking in codes since I sense you peeking 

The INXS rental, don't be fooled my game is mental 

We both out of town dog, what you trying to get into? 

Viva, Las Vegas, see ya, later at the crap tables 

Meet me by the one that starts a G up 

This way no fraud Willie's present gambling they re-up 

And we can have a pleasant time, sipping margaritas 

Yeah, can I live? 

Can I live? 

My mind is infested, with sick thoughts that circle 

Like a Lexus, if driven wrong it's sure to hurt you 

Dual level like duplexes, in unity, my crew and me 

Commit atrocities like we got immunity 

You guessed it, manifest it in tangible goods 

Platinum Rolexed it, we don't lease 

We buy the whole care, as you should 

My confederation, dead a nation, EXPLODE 

On detonation, overload the mind of a said patient 

When it balls to steam, it comes to it 

We all fiends gotta do it, even righteous minds go through this 

True this, history school us to spend our money foolish 

Bond with jewelers and, watch for intruders 

I stepped it up another level, meditated like a Buddhist 

Recruited lieutenants with ludicrous, dreams of 

Getting cream let's do this, against T-D-S 

So I keep one eye open like, C-B-S, ya see me 

Stressed right? Can I live? 

Can I live? 

Can I live? 

Can I live? 

Roc-A-Fella y'all