Gotta Survive Lyrics - Welcome Back - Mase

I don't regret nothing that I have ever done 

At this point I don't owe nobody an explanation 

Man, they love you when you up 

Kick you when you down 

Look around, VH1 man, where are they down 

Life is amusing, nobody like to see you cruising 

But everybody like to see you losing 

So I stop despise, on top of lies 

And if it prophesied I'll be ostracized 

And one day, I lost my rhodium on the day I hit the podium 

Now I'm back on top and salty like sodium 

A gift to this world man, wrap me with a ribbon 

Why do you look for a dead among the living 

Some thought I was crazy, some thought I was dissing 

Some said I was lazy, some said I was different 

I was so loaded, that everybody floated 

But once I got the notice then I got focused 

And then I saw the motive, so everybody rode it 

So I did the way wrote it and live it the way I quote it, come on 

Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me 

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me 

When I'm down at the back, just keep it real 

Gotta survive, gotta survive 

Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me 

So I try and I try to be really true 

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me 

Gotta survive, gotta survive 

Hold up, trying to tell me what I'm not 

Pull up in the 'Bach, now I'm all of the sudden hot 

Now they want to stop just to look at what I got 

Thought they want my home man, left me out to rot 

So I had to make it on my own, take it on my own 

I wanted out the hood I had to 'scape it on my own 

Believe me now, it's easy now 

'Cause everybody see me now and I'm on TV now 

But it started out with low budget 

Then I took it around the world the folks love it 

In the beginning man, my life it was so rugged 

But now I shine like a gold nugget, 'cause I made the most of it 

I know how you feeling man, I was weary 

Some days I used to sit there, my eyes all teary 

Thinking to myself, do anybody hear me 

Now I know, you making it out is not a theory, come on 

Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me 

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me 

When I'm down at the back, just keep it real 

Gotta survive, gotta survive 

Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me 

So I try and I try to be really true 

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me 

Gotta survive, gotta survive 

I've been laughed at, talked about, ridiculed 

But I got a Bentley and I'm still not a bitter dude 

And you know it's not coincidence, that me and you is not so intimate 

I can't fake, I don't shake, I don't break 

I don't lose, I don't use, I don't groove 

I never lacked and I'm never going back 

I'm nothing you ever sorrow 

I'm telling you that I'm immortal 

Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me 

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me 

When I'm down at the back, just keep it real 

Gotta survive, gotta survive 

Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me 

So I try and I try to be really true 

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me 

Gotta survive, gotta survive 

Got to, got to survive 

Keep your head held high 

Got to, got to survive 

Keep your head to the sky 

Got to, got to survive 

We can make it every time 

Got to, got to survive 

Gotta survive, gotta survive 

Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me 

(Yeah) 

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me 

When I'm down at the back, just keep it real 

(You know there is nothing in this world) 

Gotta survive, gotta survive 

(That could separate me) 

Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me 

(From what I believe 

So I try and I try to be really true 

(from what I've achieved) 

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me 

(All of this is because of him) 

Gotta survive, gotta survive 

(And I'm telling you now) 

Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me 

(As much as you all don't want to hear this) 

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me 

(I could do nothing to myself) 

When I'm down at the back, just keep it real 

Gotta survive, gotta survive 

(It's all through him, it's all through him) 

Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me 

(So all around the world) 

So I try and I try to be really true 

(You don't even know success) 

When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me 

(Until you know him) 

Gotta survive, gotta survive 

(And him is Jesus)