Live Then Lay Lyrics - Naughty By Nature

One steps down the path of poverty, most know the route 

Not a pot to piss in or a door to throw it out 

All I hear these days, we say, she say, we say, anyway 

He grows, she grow, we grow, listen negro 

(Listen) 

I die, you die, few die, who rob 

(It's) 

Do or die 

You fry, I fry, new play, new day, new God 

Tell me, what's the sense of this? 

Tell me before they gotta jail me and nail me 

Had to mention it 

You've never been to the ghetto till you had to enter this 

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Some plans, one chance, hold heat, hold head, hold their's 

(Hold ya head) 

Peep rules, weak proof, meet troops, speak truth, teach youth 

(Teach the youth) 

No crews, who's who, new day, new rules, do you 

Break bread, wake heads, check heads, half-a-head for snake feds 

(Check 'em) 

They'll lock your body, even Gotti, grab your shotties for an Illuminati 

(Be ready) 

They'll lock your body as Gotti, grab your shotties, it's an Illuminati 

Open your eyes up, people can't you see? 

It's gettin' harder by the day for you and me 

All my life I've seen so much misery 

Can there be a better place for you and me? 

Why everytime you try to show a nigga love, they shit on you? 

Fuck I'm suppose to do? 

Why everytime a brother comin' up some pray ya through? 

That's what success'll do 

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'Cause I'm a hard workin' black man 

In my face, stab in my back, man 

Rob and steal, they wanna kill me, black man 

Tell me now what the deal is black man 

Don't you know the powers in our hand? 

'Cause we shine, we end up six feet in land 

When we could build one nation 

And it's comprised of all persuasion 

African, Latin, Caucasian, Asian 

New World Order, Hip-Hop Nation 

Then we can turn hate to love 

Like Malcolm and Martin tripped up, open up your eyes 

Open your eyes up, people can't you see? 

It's gettin' harder by the day for you and me 

All my life I've seen so much misery 

Can there be a better place for you and me? 

Here today, gone tomorrow 

Live then lay, here tomorrow 

Tell me, what's the sense of this? 

Tell me before they gotta jail me and nail me 

Had to mention it 

You've never been to the ghetto till you had to enter this 

What's the sense of this? 

Tell me before they gotta jail me and nail me 

Had to mention it 

You've never been to the ghetto till you had to enter this 

Open your eyes up, people can't you see? 

It's gettin' harder by the day for you and me 

All my life I've seen so much misery 

Can there be a better place for you and me? 

Feel me, the end of the century 

Feel me, they want us in wakes and penitentiaries 

(Open your eyes) 

That's how the envy be 

Now they got it, we our own enemies 

Feel me, the end of the century 

Feel me, they want us in wakes and penitentiaries 

(Open your eyes) 

That's how the envy be 

Now they got us, we our own enemies