Get By

Before my nigga Core bailed me out
Strong or feeble in mind, I stay readin' the signs
Some people cry and some people try
Can't see they eyes, see the evil inside
The TV got us reachin' for stars
Our parents sing like John Lennon, 'Imagine all the people watch'

When, all you really need is love
And I've been thinking, I've got my reasons
This morning, I woke up, feeling brand new and I jumped up
It's easy to pull a breezy, smoke trees and we stay drunk
I let them know we missin' you, the love is unconditional
Numbers of prison they victim black in the vision

We sell, crack to our own out, the back of our homes
We deceive when we lie and we keepin' it fly
We do or die like Bed-Stuy through the red sky
We deceive when we lie and we keepin' it fly
Just to get by, just to get by
Now, why would I lie? Just to get by? Just to get by, we get fly
To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by
When people decide, to keep a disguise

Spirits stay mute while you eagles spread rumors
With the window of the red eye
Just to get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by
Just to stop smoking and stop drinking
We go through, 'Epidodes II' like 'Attack of the clones'
When people decide, to keep a disguise
Shit and all they got is rappin' to listen to
Yo, I activism attackin' the system, the Blacks and Latins in prison
Yo, yo, yo, yo

Can't see they eyes, see the evil inside

I think about a struggle and I find the strength in myself
We survivalists, turned to consumers
Feeling my highs and my lows in my soul and my goals
Work 'til we break our back and you hear the crack of the bone
Feeling my highs and my lows, in my soul and my goals
Just to get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by
Yo, yo, yo, yo

Just to get by, just to get by
They hot, like the jail cell in the South
Just to get by, by, by
Just to stop smokin' and stop drinkin'
But there's people you find
We keeping it gangster say fo shizzle, fo sheezy and stayin' crunk
I paint a picture with the pen like Norman Mailer
Just to get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by
Just to get by, for a piece of the pie
We commute to computers
To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by
These words, melt in my mouth
To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by
Let the lead fly, some G. Rap shit, 'Livin' to let die'
We smell the musk at the dusk in the crack of the dawn
Even when the condition is critical, when the livin' is miserable
Just to get by, for a piece of the pie

They need somethin' to rely on, we get high on all types of drug
You love to eat and get high
Your position is pivotal, I ain't bullshittin' you
Strong or feeble in mind, I stay readin' the signs

Me and Willa raised three daughters all by herself, with no help

Some people cry and some people try
You love to eat and get high
Saturday sinners Sunday morning at the feet of the Father

And I've been thinkin', I've got my reasons
Ask him why some people got to live in a trailer, cuss like a sailor
We rock like Paul McCartney, 'From now until the last beatle drop'
Yo, yo, yo, yo

Some people get breast enhancements and penis enlargers
Not the ones between Venus and Mars, the ones that be readin' for parts

Yo, yo, yo, yo

This morning, I woke up, feeling brand new and I jumped up
Just to get by, just to get by
But there's people you find