Dead Prez - Score lyrics

Know what I'm sayin<br>Life is like a game of basketball<br>They just want niggas to run jump and shoot<br><br>Chorus:<br><br>The game, of life, is a struggle to survive<br>We live, to win, cause if we lose, than we die<br><br>Verse 1:<br><br>What's the word for the day homeboy<br>It ain't nothin but this killin shit<br>Tryin to get this money right quick<br>You know how it is<br>Nigga tryin to eat food and live, smoke weed<br>Payin rent on my crib so I can breathe<br>Life is not about the quickest speed<br>What you achieve<br>Come to greed by the grief<br>And what you get is what you see<br>In your mind visually<br>And manifest physically<br>If you stick to it shit'll work out terrificly<br>Take me, everyday my life be hectic and stressful<br>Never really know if im'a ever be successful<br>But the best things you get out of life require struggle<br>If it don't you gettin hustled homeboy<br>You gettin hustled<br>How I see it<br>Anything you wanna be you can be it<br>If your mind can preceive it<br>And your heart really believe it<br>Than you half way there and all you got to do is do it<br>And if you give it all you got there ain't really<br>Nothin' to it<br><br>Chorus<br><br>Score, this ain't no game this is war<br>Score, this ain't no game this is war<br>Score, this ain't no game this is war<br>Score, this ain't no game this is war<br><br>(talking in background)<br>Get your fucking heads in the game, please!<br>This season don't mean nothin if we lose this!<br>Word up<br><br>Verse 2:<br>As a, black boy<br>Started out a bundle of joy<br>But quickly I grew playin with toys<br>Than you started makin noise as a youth<br>Tryin to figure out the truth<br>Behind the shit that the schools ain't tellin<br>First come rebellin, then come drug sellin<br>Juvenile court, 'cause you too young to be a felon<br>Knew that everything around you was yours<br>But you gotta maintain the game of wealth that the<br>World has in store<br>A wise man told you before<br>You got the power to bring things to life black boy<br>You can test it<br>Everything you see is just a thought manifested<br>But before you had a chance to know that<br>You got arrested<br>And it all seems clear to you know, you can breathe<br>It was different<br>When you couldn't see the forest from the trees<br>If you follow your dreams you can accomplish anything<br>If you always do your best then your destiny is king<br>Of the world<br><br>Chorus<br><br>People don't let life, no no<br>Don't let life mislead you<br>You have the power<br><br>People don't let life<br>Don't let life deceive you<br>You have the power<br><br>Yeah, score this ain't no game this is war<br>Score, this ain't no game this is war<br>Score, this ain't no game this is war<br>Score, this ain't no game this is war<br><br>Verse 3:<br><br>Life is like twistin' a blunt, it's how you roll with it<br>Just figure out what you want and go and get it<br>Anybody tryin' to stop you<br>For tryin to do for you<br>That's your enemy dun<br>The sun be right up in your crew<br><br>That's true<br>Life is a thinking mans game<br>Use your head for it<br>Ain't no use in bein scared a shit<br>If you prepared for it<br>Go for what you know good<br>This whole wide world is your hood<br>Plus the universe<br>Cause you was on the planet first<br><br>Score, this ain't no game this is war x4<br><br>Chorus<br><br>People don't let life, no no<br>Don't let life mislead you<br>You have the power<br><br>People don't let life<br>Don't let life deceive you<br>You have the power<br>Just use your power<br><br>Don't be a fool<br>Don't ever lose your cool<br>You got the power