Mase - Gotta Survive

[Ma$e talking] I dont regret nothin that ive ever done at this point i dont owe nobody an explanation [Ma$e] Man they love you when you up kick you when you down look around vh1 man where are they now life is amusin nobody like to see you cruisin but everybody like to see you losin so i stop despisin on top a lies im livin prophet side i'll be ostracized one day i lost my Rhodium the day i hit the podium now im back on top salty like sodium a gift to this world man rappin with a ribbon whyy do you look for a dead among the livin some thought i was crazy some thought i was missin some said i was lazy some said i was different i was so loaded that everybody flowed it but once i got the notice then i got focused and then i saw they motive so everybody voted so i did the way i wrote it and lived it the way i quote it c'mon [Chorus] Gotta Survive in this life thats been given to me when it seems like the world keeps scratchin' on me when im down i get by just keep it real, Gotta survive, Gotta survive, Gotta survive in this life thas been given to me so i try and i try to be all i can be when it seems like the world keeps scratchin' on me, Gotta survive, Gotta survive [Ma$e] Now people on the block try to tell me what im not pull up in a bot now im all a sudden hot now they wanna stop just to look at what i got thought they was my homie left me out to rot so i had to make it on my own take it on my own i wanted out the hood i had to 'scape it on my own believe me now its easy now cuz everybody seen me now and im on tv now but it startd out with no budget then i took it round the world and the folks love it in the beginnin mangs my life was so rugged but now i shine like a gold nugget cuz i made the most of it i know how you feelin man i was weary some days I used to sit there my eyes all teary thinkin to myself do anybody hear me now i know, u makin a dolla's not a theory c'mon [Chorus] Gotta Survive in this life thats been given to me when it seems like the world keeps scratchin' on me when I'm down I get by just keep it real, Gotta survive, Gotta survive, Gotta survive in this life thas been given to me so I try and I try to be all I can be when it seems like the world keeps scratchin on me, Gotta survive, Gotta survive [Ma$e] I've been laughed at talked about ridiculed but M Dot Betha is still not a bitter dude and you know its no coincident that me and you is not so intimate I cant fake I dont shake I dont break I dont lose i dont use i dont bruise I never lack and im never goin back I'm nuthin you ever saw tho I'm tellin you im immortal [Chorus] Gotta Survive in this life thats been given to me when it seems like the world keeps scratchin on me when im down i get by just keep it real, Gotta survive, Gotta survive, Gotta survive in this life thas been givn to me so i try and i try to be all i can be when it seems like the world keeps scratchin on me, Gotta survive, Gotta survive Gotta, Gotta survive, keep your head held high Gotta, Gotta survive, keep your head to the sky, Gotta, Gottasurvive, we can make it if we try, Gotta, Gotta survive, gotta survive gotta survive [Ma$e talking w/ chorus in background repeatin twice] Yeah... you know theres nothin this world that could seperate me from what I believe from what I achieve all of this is because of him and im tellin you now, as much as ya'll dont wanna hear this I could do nothin by myself it's all through him. it's all through him so all around the world you dont even know success until you know him and him is Jesus