I know what you go through   From me to you, I love you      From the nigga to the baller, never satisfied   So the money got you doing shit that'll fuck up your pride   You ain't a hoe, you just really trying to get by   Everyday looking up at the sky      Sometimes, shit get so hard   It really have you bothered   First you sigh then you cry   Up a whole puddle of water      Seem like this shit won't ever end   Merry go rounds to the whirlwinds   Waves turn to a hurricane   If you see joy, you got to see pain      Shit in the world ain't gonna ever change   Even when you die, it'll be the same   Now, you due to them circumstances   Jars aren't counted so you're forced to dance      Hoping and praying for a second chance   Just wanna put back on your pants   Walk out the club and throw up your hands   Tired of being disrespected by her man      Think this shit ain't right for you   Niggaz been yellin' all night for you   Got in your mind what's best for you   Walk up to the club owner, tell him you're through      She's stuck off in this little room   With nothing left to hold onto   Her life is in a little box   She's wondering will it ever stop   The life of a stripper      I'm so sick and I'm so tired   Of these clubs, I keep crying   Every night, I wipe my eyes   'Cause these years pass me by      I give up, I'm all in   My whole life is full of sin   This road is a dead end   I wanna live again      From the point when a child is   Torn from a mothers umbilical cord   No one really enforces that life is gonna be hard   Which is kinda left up to the teachers   But the teachers leave it up to the preachers   The preachers ain't fillin' the bleachers   It's the rappers, sad, ain't it?      It was this girl named Star, pretty fine little woman   Going to college, taking off her clothes for money   She gotta pay the rent, she got a little girl   Her baby daddy ain't shit, see what she dealin' with      But she gotta hold on   (Hold on)   Wanna leave the club alone   (It feels wrong)      She gotta pay the bills but in the meantime   She like fuck how she feel, living is real   So she back in the club again   Taking off her clothes again      Going to school, going to work, getting tiring   Lack of sleep but baby gotta eat   And these shoes on her feet   She got a test next week so she stressed      Ask God to give her a blessing   Send her in the right direction   Her parents died when she was eight years old   And after that, she felt like she was all alone      But she got her grandparents and they raised her well   Keep going to school, take care of yourself   Getting hard, going to school and work in the club   And at the same time looking for love      She can't keep skipping for an occupation   In a minute she'll be graduating   Make her wanna throw up her hands   Now, she only wanna live again      She's stuck off in this little room   With nothing left to hold onto   Her life is in a little box   She's wondering will it ever stop   The life of a stripper      I'm so sick and I'm so tired   Of these clubs, I keep crying   Every night, I wipe my eyes   'Cause these years pass me by      I give up, I'm all in   My whole life is full of sin   This road is a dead end   I wanna live again      She's stuck off in this little room   With nothing left to hold onto   Her life is in a little box   She's wondering will it ever stop   The life of a stripper