[DJ Quik]   Why you keep givin me cards I can't keep?   I throw these two back, you throw me two more, they're so cheap   I couldn't get the winning hand that I wanted in my sleep   Cause when the dream get good, I get trampled by sheep   Nightmares, even when I'm walkin in day   I'm havin dreams that I'm runnin but there's smoke in the way   And there's this man in a suit, he take a toke and he say,   "You have a promise that you made and you broke it today."   Now which part of this movie here did I just miss?   Did I really sell my soul to this big red bitch?   I don't think what you got to offer is really enough   For cars sex and houses, money and stuff   I'd rather be broke and own nothin but piece of mind   and a Benz, and a house, and a nine-deuce-nine   on top, help me out before I sink the boat   There's gotta be more than 50 ways to keep afloat   Cause I feel like I'm suffocatin, I can't breathe   I wanna go, but I'm too afraid to leave   Take me with you Mausie, I know you're seein somethin grand   as you fade away, and you gently release my hand   And it shook my balance, cause you ain't no more alive   You think I'd see you, if I chewed this 45?   Oh I'd be the first person poppin three, droppin me   to the abyss, but I miss, what's stoppin me?   I got the pressures of the WORLD on my little back   My nerves are turnin into jelly and I'm bout to crack   You think I'm cheatin on my homies, by holdin back?   No I really protect them all because the truth is wack   Forever bars and forever scars   Bein trapped and dyin young makes forever stars   Tell me why am I so hesitant?   And the way life's goin, looks like when hell comes, I'ma be a resident      [Chorus 2X: Wanya Morris]   La, la la-la - la, la la-la   La, la la-la - la, la la-la      [DJ Quik]   They tell me Quik, suck it up, I'm supposed to   But me and Mausberg was closer than most knew   It ain't dramatized, and it ain't a fuckin act   when you're traumatized, and it ain't no turnin back   When you're so connected, and it's hard to keep your focus   When you're so affected, and it's hard to love again   When you're so neglected - suck it up, I'm 'posed to   That ain't easy for somebody you're close to, shit   See your homey in a coffin is so wicked and vivid   It's gon' be harder on all of us, cause we gon' relive it   Over and over, drunk or sober, from October to October   I steadily feel like I'm gettin knocked over   And all the money in the world, don't make it better   And a whole bottle of alcohol, don't make it wetter   With a blur and a slur I'm still callin ya name   And on top of this drama you add fame? Wild   But when you start to bubble then your friends they spite you   And if you go to church, then hip-hop won't like you   I feel like a giant on a worldwide stage   but at the same time trapped in a real tight cage   With no way out, I play out, then I come back   Cause there's an unwritten law that says I can't be wack   So I put on my game face, go back to the same place   Only to realize that y'all ain't got the same taste   Even with somethin new, they look at you cold   And without a hot face, consider you old   And leavin me stressed and broken-hearted   How could I be finished with West coast rap? I helped start it!      [Chorus]