Life

[Intro]

Just like a birdie, I just want to fly free (so high, so high)

And own a piece of land, somewhere, somewhere off in a country Oh, oh, yeah, listen

Hey

[Verse 1]

Temperature's like a hundred degrees

Like I got chains on me

Black male in a family of three

Been robbed of my destiny

Reckon I'll fly away

'Cause it's too much for the man

Shouldn't have gone down this way

What happened to my master plan?

'Cause I can't figure out

I could have been a loved child (loved child)

Shouldn't have gone down this way

[Chorus]

Tell me, how did I get life?

Life, life, life, life, (Talk to me) life, life, life, life

(Oh, how did I get life?)

Life, life, (tell me) life, life, life, life, life, life

[Verse 2]

Oh somebody done done me wrong

Done me wrong (done me wrong)

Now eyes to the ceiling all night long, all night long

Time is slipping away from me (away from me)

And it ain't no telling when I'll get home

I gotta get home, yeah

Just about to see the dollar signs

That close to a piece of mine

Everything was about to be fine

[Chorus]

So tell me, so how did I get life?

Life, life, life, life, life, life, life, life

Tell me, I wanna know now how

Life, life, life, life, life, life, life, life

You know, you know, you know

[Bridge]

Everything (everything)

I hope for (that I hope for)

Is gone now (is gone now)

Buried in the ground (buried in the ground)

Hopes and dreams (my hopes and dreams)

All those things (all those things)

I'll never see (I will never never see)

Said I'll never see (somebody gave me life)

[Chorus]

Life, life, life, life, (yes, they did) life, life, life, life

Life, life, life, life, life, life, life, life (OOHH! Life)

Life, life, (somebody gave me life) life, life, life, life, life, life (say it again, say it again, yeah)

Life, life, life, life, life, life, life, life