After You Die

[Chorus: Truth Hurts]

Do you ever think

What life would be

Where you will go

After you die?

[Verse 1: Rakim]

Do you ever sit back and get a little too high

Start thinking what happens to you when you die?

Does your soul rest where your coffin is

Or is death just a metamorphosis?

Does life go on in the mental form

If we live a good life will we get reborn?

Is it a heaven or we trapped in hell?

Where do we go from here, nobody came back to tell

If we reincarnated or perish in time

Could you shine when darkness inherits your mind?

And your eyes closed for good, you out the galaxy now

Is this subconscious dream my reality now?

Listen to brain, with no physical frame

Could we return to the hood on a spiritual plane?

Ask yourself, If I pass tonight

Am I prepared for what's after life? (After you die)

[Chorus]

Do you ever think

What life would be

Where you will go

After you die?

[Verse 2: Rakim]

Could we come back, do we get left in the past?

Fuck that, I'mma kick death in the ass

To come walk with the creator, 'til my mind is greater

Get insight so I could design and find data

'Til my third eye gives me a bird's eye view

Focus 'til my ghost is on a curb by you

Watchin you mourn my death, like im lost in time

But im with you even if I don't cross your mind

When you pour out liquor, im catchin the Cognac

When you pull out a spliff im catchin the contact

Try to look after my people, that's trapped in evil

Playin craps and c-low, to get gats and kilos

And still do some of the things that I love to do

Hang on the streets, throw it up in a club or two

See women and catch'em in their wildest dreams

Possess 'em, make'em do the wildest things

And my peeps, what I'mma do, is pray that you blessed

And my kids, keep'em away from the angel of death

So just in case if I pass tonight

Yo, im prepared for what's after life. (After you die)

[Chorus]

Do you ever think

What life would be

Where you will go

After you die?