[ti:Cradle To The Grave] [ar:2Pac] [al:Thug Life Vol.1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Cradle To The Grave (摇篮到坟墓) - Thug Life/2Pac (图派克·阿玛鲁·夏库尔) [00:05.98][Chorus] [00:10.49]From tha Cradle to the Grave life ain't never been easy [00:16.05]Living in the ghetto [00:21.47]From the cradle to the grave life ain't never been easy [00:26.80]Living in the ghetto [00:27.55]June 16 1971 [00:28.12]Mama gave birth [00:28.74]To a hell raisin' heavanly son [00:31.25]See the doctor tried to smack me [00:32.87]But I smacked him back [00:33.81]My first words were"thug for life" [00:35.63]And"Papa pass the Mac" [00:37.30]I'm bustin' on these motha f**kas ballin' [00:39.74]Listen you can hear my mini 14 callin' [00:42.11]From out the window of my drop top [00:44.50]I got my glock cocked [00:45.75]Bustin' at niggas [00:46.86]When will it stop [00:48.18]Now tell me are you scared of the dark [00:49.98]Can't close my eyes I see visions [00:51.35]And even with this thug livin' [00:52.66]Will I escape in prison [00:54.73]Penitentiary chances was an all day thang [00:56.85]The only way to advance [00:58.54]And if you slang [01:00.15]Then you'd better have your nikes on [01:01.71]Cause when we fight [01:02.65]It's in the middle of the night with no lights on [01:05.15]Hey [01:06.02]There must be a God cause I feel lucky [01:07.95]Paranoid out my mind [01:08.76]This motha f**ka's tryin' to rush me [01:10.97]Am I goin' to jail [01:12.09]Look at me bailin' [01:12.90]Commin' out the court house [01:14.71]All about mail and bank [01:16.39]Never die [01:17.77]Be a hustler mothaf**kas [01:18.77]And makin' thugs out you suckas [01:20.96]From the cradle to the grave [01:23.64][Chorus] [01:24.14]From the cradle to the grave life ain't never been easy [01:29.81]Living in the ghetto easy [01:30.84]From the cardle to the grave life ain't never been easy [01:34.59]Living in the ghetto [01:36.34]From the cradle to the grave [01:37.89]Since a little bitty child [01:38.78]I've been known to get I'll and kinda buck wild [01:40.45]Pop pop [01:40.77]Just like the part that's in my walk with street talk [01:42.95]I'm runnin' up the block in the dark with less spark [01:45.57]Survalience on a ni**a every day [01:47.26]Waitin' on my daddy just to take his a** away [01:50.44]Now Mama always workin' tryin' to make ends meet [01:53.19]So now a young niggas bein' raised by the streets [01:56.00]And then the on other one that ever showed me love [01:58.88]Was my d**e fiend uncle strung out on *** [02:01.63]A striaght thug [02:02.34]Just me my mama out here on our own [02:04.39]So I got two gatts [02:05.44]One black and one of chrome [02:07.83]Now I don't wanna hurt nobody but I must defend mine [02:11.52]It's all the f**k I got [02:12.95]So stop and walk a thin line [02:14.26]Young niggas be brave [02:15.26]And keep on thuggin' from the cradle to the grave [02:17.88]From the cradle to the grave [02:19.27][Chorus] [02:20.08]From the cradle to the grave life ain't never been easy [02:25.82]Living in the ghetto [02:27.26]From the cradle to the grave I'm glad to say [02:31.00]I made it this far [02:32.00]Many G's died hard [02:33.39]And all they got was their name here up on a wall [02:37.25]It's sad thinkin' about the times [02:38.69]Life goes on I'm steady lost in this land [02:41.26]As the warzone I got no home [02:43.14]Don't have no friends neither [02:44.58]It's just me by my lonely so I married my nina [02:47.34]I keeps her wherever I go [02:48.91]I love my ho [02:50.03]Never leave home with out my sugar [02:51.79]I'm hafta plug a ni**a [02:52.97]Mama told me not to trust no punks [02:54.71]And kick his a** if he lay a hand on me [02:57.27]Since then I been known [02:58.66]Sometimes I think my own self stupid [03:00.84]Cause I stay shootin' at marks [03:02.47]Get twisted up in police reports [03:04.15]Since the cradle I've been ungreatful [03:06.47]My first toy was a gun [03:07.83]I got sprung and learn to love weapons [03:09.77]But now I'm through with money [03:11.76]And through with street fame [03:13.07]Somebody peeled my cap and put me in my grave [03:16.64][Chorus] [03:17.14]From the cradle to the grave life ain't never been easy [03:22.37]Living in the ghetto [03:23.81]From the cradle to the grave life ain't never been easy [03:28.24]Living in the ghetto [03:31.04]March 18th [03:31.48]A rainy day my mama gave birth [03:40.90]To a baby boy trapped in hell on Earth [03:43.90]From day one it wasn't fun I never had a crumb [03:46.58]Daddy worked two jobs and Mama won't stop drinkin' rum [03:49.64]I tried to cope loc [03:51.20]But my family's broke [03:52.34]And my pocket's short [03:53.02]So now I gotta sling d**e [03:55.22]In a game filled with pain it's a f**kin' shame [03:57.51]The white man got a motha f**ka slingin' cane [04:00.89]So now it's on from dusk to dawn I get my serve on [04:03.50]Always in the spot with my glock slingin' rocks at the rocks [04:06.25]Sh*t don't stop I'm steady dodgin' cops [04:08.19]I never flip flop [04:09.26]Hear my glock cock [04:11.75]Thug till I drop [04:12.80]And if I hit the pen I gotta do my time [04:15.19]Sittin' on my bunk reminiscing about the good times [04:17.58]It's f**ked up a ni**a gotta grow up doing dirt [04:20.44]But from the cradle to the grave I'ma put in work [04:23.82][Chorus] [04:24.76]From the cradle to the grave life ain't never been easy [04:30.06]Living in the ghetto [04:35.77]From the cradle to the grave life ain't never been easyy [04:42.07]Living in the ghetto [04:45.81]Time's movin' fast [04:47.18]Will I last another day [04:48.94]So I pray and I lay with my A-K [04:51.75]Did I sell my soul as a young kid [04:54.37]All the things I did [04:55.37]Wishin' someone held me [04:57.43]But they never did [04:59.18]I can't take it [04:59.87]Will I make it to my older age [05:01.42]Before I'm shot up or locked up in a f**kin' cage [05:03.37]Lord help me guide me save me [05:04.94]Cause that's the way that Daddy raised me [05:07.95]Crazy [05:08.19]Do or die Ni**a pull the trigger don't give a f**k [05:11.50]You'd rather be in jail than get your a** bucked [05:14.30]Nobody cares it's me against the world [05:16.62]Keepin' murder on my mind and my tech-9 [05:19.61]I got nothin' to lose payin' dues ni**a you wanna die [05:22.43]I get high [05:23.68]Then my mission is a walk-by [05:25.56]You'd better jet when I hit your set cause I'm commin' [05:28.45]Start runnin' yellin'"evil mind" as I'm gunnin' [05:31.25]One in the chamber for the anger that I build inside [05:34.12]For the mothers that cried for my homies that died [05:36.99]The begining is an ending am I just a slave [05:39.63]So I got to be brave from the cradle to the grave [05:43.00][Chorus til fade]