Jay-Z Lyrics

Album: Unknown

Can I Live Lyrics

Yeah, hah, yeah Roc-A-Fella

 We invite you to, somethin epic y'all know?

 Well we hustle out of a sense of, hopelessness

 Sort of a desperation

 Through that desperation, we 'come addicted

 Sorta like the fiends we accustomed to servin

 But we feel we have nothin to lose

 so we offer you, well, we offer our lives, right

 What do you bring to the table?

 

 While I'm watchin every nigga watchin me closely

 my shit is butter for the bread they wanna toast me

 I keep my head, both of them where they supposed to be

 Hoes'll get you sidetracked then clap from closed feet

 I don't sleep, I'm tired, I feel wired like codeine, these days

 a brother gotta admire from four fiends away

 My pain wish it was quick to see, from sellin 'caine

 til brains was fried to a fricaisse, can't lie

 At the time it never bothered me, at the bar

 gettin my thug on properly, my squad and me

 lack of respect for authority, laughin hard

 Happy to be escapin poverty, however brief

 I know this game got valleys and peaks, expectation

 for dips, four percent pertation we stack chips, hardly

 The youth I used to be, soon to see a mill'in

 No more, Big Willie my game has grown prefer you call me William

 Illin for revenues, grateful dim the light

 channel 7 news, round seven jewels, hand gettin the mic

 Forgettin all I ever knew, convenient amnesia

 I suggest you call my lawyer, I know the procedure

 Lock my body can't trap my mind, easily

 explain why we adapt to crime

 I'd rather die enormous than live dormant that's how we on it

 Live at the main event, I bet a trip to Maui on it

 Presidential suites my resedential for the weekend

 Confidentially speakin in codes since I sense you peekin

 The INXS rental, don't be fooled my game is mental

 We both out of town dog, what you tryin to get into?

 Viva, Las Vegas, see ya, later at the crap tables

 meet me by the one that starts a G up

 This way no fraud Willie's present gambling they re-up

 And we can have a pleasant time, sippin margaritas

 Ge-ge-geyeahhh, can I live?

 Can I live?

 

 My mind is infested, with sick thoughts that circle

 like a Lexus, if driven wrong it's sure to hurt you

 Dual level like duplexes, in unity, my crew and me

 commit atrocities like we got immunity

 You guessed it, manifest it in tangible goods

 Platinum Rolexed it, we don't lease

 we buy the whole care, as you should

 My confederation, dead a nation, EXPLODE

 on detonation, overload the mind of a said patient

 When it balls to steam, it comes to it

 we all fiends gotta do it, even righteous minds go through this

 True this, history school us to spend our money foolish

 Bond with jewellers and, watch for intruders

 I stepped it up another level, meditated like a buddhist

 Recruited lieutenants with ludicrous, dreams of

 gettin cream let's do this, against T-D-S

 So I keep one eye open like, C-B-S, ya see me

 stressed right? Can I live?

 Can I live?

 Can I live?

 Can I live?

 Ha-hah, Roc-A-Fella y'all