[ti:Live Then Lay] [ar:Naughty By Nature] [al:Nineteen Naughty Nine Nature's Fury] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Live Then Lay (Explicit) - Naughty By Nature/Phiness [00:18.78]One steps down the path of poverty most know the route [00:22.85]Not a pot to piss in or a door to throw it out [00:26.40]All I hear these days we say she say we say anyway [00:31.60]He grows she grow we grow listen negro [00:35.16](Listen) [00:35.77]I die you die few die who rob [00:39.43](It's) [00:39.89]Do or die [00:40.94]You fry I fry new play new day new God [00:44.69]Tell me what's the sense of this [00:46.67]Tell me before they gotta jail me and nail me [00:49.13]Had to mention it [00:50.83]You've never been to the ghetto till you had to enter this [00:54.03]Some plans one chance hold heat hold head hold their's [00:57.96](Hold ya head) [00:58.82]Peep rules weak proof meet troops speak truth teach youth [01:02.31](Teach the youth) [01:03.11]No crews who's who new day new rules do you [01:06.96]Break bread wake heads check heads half-a-head for snake feds [01:11.49](Check 'em) [01:12.35]They'll lock your body even Gotti grab your shotties for an Illuminati [01:15.85](Be ready) [01:16.54]They'll lock your body as Gotti grab your shotties it's an Illuminati [01:19.38]Open your eyes up people can't you see [01:24.14]It's gettin' harder by the day for you and me [01:28.94]All my life I've seen so much misery [01:32.99]Can there be a better place for you and me [01:37.59]Why everytime you try to show a ni**a love they sh*t on you [01:40.86]F**k I'm suppose to do [01:42.21]Why everytime a brother comin' up some pray ya through [01:44.54]That's what success'll do [01:46.38]Cause I'm a hard workin' black man [01:48.71]In my face stab in my back man [01:50.90]Rob and steal they wanna kill me black man [01:53.29]Tell me now what the deal is black man [01:55.38]Don't you know the powers in our hand [01:57.40]Cause we shine we end up six feet in land [01:59.96]When we could build one nation [02:01.87]And it's comprised of all persuasion [02:03.92]African Latin Caucasian Asian [02:06.13]New World Order Hip-Hop Nation [02:09.23]Then we can turn hate to love [02:11.32]Like Malcolm and Martin tripped up open up your eyes [02:14.04]Open your eyes up people can't you see [02:17.43]It's gettin' harder by the day for you and me [02:22.19]All my life I've seen so much misery [02:26.33]Can there be a better place for you and me [02:31.67]Here today gone tomorrow [02:40.44]Live then lay here tomorrow [02:49.44]Tell me what's the sense of this [02:51.17]Tell me before they gotta jail me and nail me [02:53.61]Had to mention it [02:55.37]You've never been to the ghetto till you had to enter this [02:57.96]What's the sense of this [02:59.99]Tell me before they gotta jail me and nail me [03:02.48]Had to mention it [03:04.24]You've never been to the ghetto till you had to enter this [03:07.06]Open your eyes up people can't you see [03:10.80]It's gettin' harder by the day for you and me [03:15.55]All my life I've seen so much misery [03:19.66]Can there be a better place for you and me [03:23.92]Feel me the end of the century [03:26.53]Feel me they want us in wakes and penitentiaries [03:29.09](Open your eyes) [03:29.93]That's how the envy be [03:31.17]Now they got it we our own enemies [03:33.63]Feel me the end of the century [03:35.42]Feel me they want us in wakes and penitentiaries [03:38.18](Open your eyes) [03:38.99]That's how the envy be [03:40.11]Now they got us we our own enemies