The Life

I can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just getting by

Can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just getting high

Can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just getting by

Can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just getting high

Well, I wake up

Around ten in the morning

Feeling crazy, feeling on it

From the night before 'cause I was up

Till four in the morning plus some

So I take long trip

And then I take out my song scripts

When I sit down to write

I always look to God to help me see the light

But I know, that I ain't even livin' right

And I know, that I can't live by the night

But it's so hard for me just to put it down

So hard for me to pass up the crown

When it's been passed down

I'm sitting on the throne

Sometimes I feel in this world I've just been thrown

Not been showing it, and I don't know

When to slow it down

But I can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just getting by

Can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just getting high

Can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just getting by

Can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just getting high

But this is the life, life, life

Life, the life

This is the life, life, the life

Life, the life

This is the life, life, the life

Life, the life

They tell me it's the life, life, the life

Life, the life

Once again, I hit the hot spot with my so-called friends

Then I hit the ATM and then I realize I ain't got no ends

Then I call up my kin, hey, my money's going

I'm standing at the bar but the drinks quit flowing

Strap for gas sitting on the block

Drunk as hell tryna 'void the damn cops

And this is how it is sometimes when you fall off track

Like when your record's stretched and you try to run it back

But sometimes the stretch got to deep an impact

It makes it so hard for you not to look back

Regretting things you did in the past

I wake up in the morning tell myself it won't last

But I tend to get another glass, then I

Start to act just like an ass, but I

Can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just getting by

Can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just getting high

Can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just getting by

Can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just getting high

But this is the life, life, the life

Life, the life

This is the life, life, the life

Life, the life

They tell me it's the life, life, the life

Life, the life

They tell me it's the life, life, the life

Life, the life

Life, life, life, life...

I can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just getting by

Can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just getting high

But this is the life, life, life

Life, the life

This is the life, life, the life

The life, the life

This is the life, life, the life

Life, the life

This is the life, life, the life

Life, the life

Life, the life, the life...

But I can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just getting by

Can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just getting high

Can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just getting by

Can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just getting high

This is my life, my life...