I'D RATHER DIE THAN BE DEPORTED

Yeah I used to sleep in a foreign Wouldn't really call it a foreign Legally I was a no-one To everyone I was just foreign I didn't exist in the eyes of the law I had to hide it, fight it alone You don't wanna give someone a tool That they can use when they want you gone This is the life This is the roads I had to die before I was born I'd rather die than be deported Hm Yeah See, me and my cousin, man We both alike We had to fight similar fights We lived together, had similar lives He did some shit but never you mind He been inside and I never been I like to think it's because I never slipped He was more inclined to take the risk I was more inclined to make us rich And I know God had given me a gift And I wasn't trying to let it slip And I wasn't trying to let it go This is the life This is the roads I had to die before I was born I'd rather die than be deported This is the life This is the roads I had to die before I was born I'd rather die than be deported This is the life This is the roads I had to die before I was born I'd rather die than be deported Shout out to ssh For being my OG for being my plug and my coach I'd run out of grub and he'd always give me advice Whenever I come to reload He'd always told me that I shoulda gone off to uni' But knows that I couldn't go And we were passengers in the same boat Yeah, we were passengers in the same boat Peddling crow Out in the sun and the snow Walking up and down the roads Dropped out of college And I joined the family business So I could be more in control This is the life This is the roads I had to die before I was born I'd rather die than be deported Yeah, yeah, yeah Ever been so hungry, you had to thief Because you know you got nothing to eat? Baby yeah, I made it out of the streets But the streets say they made it out of me, out of me Right here on my soul Somewhere out here in the cold This is the life This is the roads I had to die before I was born I'd rather die than be deported This is the life This is the roads I had to die before I was born I'd rather die than be deported This is the life This is the roads I had to die before I was born I'd rather die than be deported