[ti:Go] [ar:Nelly] [al:5.0 Deluxe] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Go (Album Version) - Nelly/Talib Kweli/Ali [00:01.69]Life [00:06.70]What is it for real I don't know [00:12.66]It's like hate taking over the whole world what is it over [00:15.47]Suicide man that's the devil trying to control us they told us [00:18.38]But we didn't notice the pain was sitting on they shoulders [00:20.51]The world was just a polar the rather live in the solar [00:23.24]System got us hopeless and focused on foreclosures [00:25.71]Wake up and smell the forgers oh momma [00:27.20]And bring home the soldiers [00:28.18]Osama you owe us the 911 was bogus [00:30.50]Now we right back at him [00:31.72]Say the war is our motive come on [00:36.92]Wake up early in the streets of the block streets of the block [00:41.37]He posted up on the corner like a soldier [00:43.47]In the drill but he wouldn't stop [00:47.14]Living life in the battlefield battlefield [00:52.20]Trying to survive every day and every night it's the same deal [00:56.81]Life's strange life's strange times change times change [00:59.37]But karma always finds the way [01:01.98]Stay strong stay strong hold on hold on [01:04.33]Don't let all your dreams fade away [01:07.02]Yeah life can beat you down what goes it comes around [01:11.97]It's not how you hit the ground it's how fast you get back up [01:16.14]And go keep going time to feel like I'm giving my life away [01:21.30]And it gets hard and harder but happiness is worth the wait [01:26.87]'Cause on my own is a better way [01:31.81]'Cause on my own is a better way [01:38.29]A lot of mothers they just don't understand [01:40.26]They just don't understand [01:42.66]They think we're hard on our sons [01:43.96]But we gotta teach our boys how to be a man [01:48.13]They only know when they walk out the door [01:50.43]When they walk out the door [01:52.83]See we can show 'em how to fire [01:54.26]But they gotta teach themselves how to reload [01:57.53]'Cause unemployment is harder than it's ever been [02:00.66]Sometimes it feels like I can't win [02:03.01]And even through all the rules keep changing [02:05.61]I'm stronger now than I was when I came in [02:08.17]Yeah life can beat you down what goes it comes around [02:13.20]It's not how you hit the ground it's how fast you get back up [02:17.44]And go keep going time to feel like I'm giving my life away [02:22.72]And it gets hard and harder but happiness is worth the wait [02:28.29]'Cause on my own is a better way [02:33.20]'Cause on my own is a better way [02:37.54]Hey hey going through the back streets like I got beef [02:41.37]Carnival for carnivores with the sharp teeth [02:43.90]Animalistic it's why we call the cops beast [02:46.49]We're on the hunt 'cause they're hungry for the dark meat [02:49.05]I'm rapping through my heart beat [02:50.60]Brain is the base my heart is the drum [02:52.94]Give the drum some promise of a better life is all I got to give [02:56.73]I ain't just trying to survive I'm trying to live [02:59.05]'Cause all I want is a better way [03:03.90]Hey if you're not prepared the world can be so cold [03:09.89]All that you can do is your best and just hope [03:14.63]In time the truth will show just stick to what you know [03:19.66]Get a grip on something real and never let it go [03:24.60]Go keep going time to feel like I'm giving my life away [03:28.96]And it gets hard and harder but happiness is worth the wait [03:34.41]'Cause on my own is a better way [03:39.65]'Cause on my own is a better way [03:45.04]Go keep going time to feel like I'm giving my life away [03:49.38]And it gets hard and harder but happiness is worth the wait [03:54.82]'Cause on my own is a better way [03:59.93]'Cause on my own is a better way