The Life

[Chorus]

I can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just gettin' by

Can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just gettin' high

Can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just gettin' by

Can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just gettin' high

[Verse 1]

When I wake up around ten in the morning

Feeling crazy, feeling haunted

From the night before 'cause I was up 'til four in the morning plus some

So I take long trip and then I take out my song scripts

When I sit down to write

I always look to God to help me see the light

But I know, that I ain't been livin' right

And I know, that I can't live by the night

But it's so hard for me just to put it down

So hard for me to pass up the crown

When it's been passed down, I'm sitting on the throne

And sometimes I feel in this world I've just been thrown in

Not been showing it, and I don't know when to slow it down

[Chorus]

I can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just gettin' by

Can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just gettin' high

Can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just gettin' by

Can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just gettin' high

[Post-Chorus]

But this is the life, life, the life, life, the life

This is the life, life, the life, life, the life (Yeah)

This is the life, life, the life, life, the life (Uh)

They tell me it's the life, life, the life, life, the life

[Verse 2]

Once again, I hit the hot spot with my so-called friends

Then I hit the ATM and then realize I ain't got no ends

And then I call up my kin "Hey, my money's going"

I'm standing at the bar but the drinks quit flowing

Strapped for cash sitting on the block

Drunk as hell tryna 'void the damn cops

And this is how it is sometimes when you fall off track

Like when your record's scratched and you try to run it back

But sometimes the scratch got too deep an impact

It makes it so hard for you not to look back

Regretting things you did in the past

I wake up in the mornin' tell myself it won't last

But I tend to get another glass, then I

Start to act just like an ass, but I

[Chorus]

I can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just gettin' by

Can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just gettin' high

Can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just gettin' by

Can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just gettin' high

[Post-Chorus]

But this is the life, life, the life, life, the life

This is the life, life, the life, life, the life (Yeah)

They tell me it's the life, life, the life, life, the life (Ooh)

They tell me it's the life, life, the life, life, the life

[Chorus]

I can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just gettin' by

Can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just gettin' high

[Post-Chorus]

But this is the life, life, the life, life, the life (Yeah)

This is the life, life, the life, life, the life (Yeah)

This is the life, life, the life, life, the life

This is the life, life, the life, life, the life

[Chorus]

I can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just gettin' by

Can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just gettin' high

Can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just gettin' by

Can't go on like this

Knowing that I'm just gettin' high

[Outro]

This is my life, my life

They tell me this is the life, uh

It's just the life

Life, life