[Intro: ludacris]   Ooooh you feel that as i take you to them dirt roads deep in your southern roots    When nobody said life was going to be easy and we travel to this emotional roller coaster called life    And we have our ups and downs    Just keep in mind    When you hit rock bottom    There aint no where to go but up baby    Just all you about how you deal wit it you feel me.. listen here       [chorus]   When life seems hopeless    It make a nigga lose focus    Empty beer bottles and roaches, helps to get it off my chest cause    Im so stressed and all i here is \"fuck tha world\" [2x]      [verse 1: ludacris]   Man ever since life been a gamble    My life been in shamblez    Double edge sword burnin both sides of the candle but cris but you cant handle the truth    Dont wanna face reailty    So lord accept my apology    Please like when police say freeze    And i aint do shit    But im down on my knees    Its a crooked system but gin straight take the pain away i charge the game    And put my problems on layaway    A black man but i feel so blue    So i smoke green and purple til my dreams come true    Then my eyes turn red    Sky turns grey    Children slangin white in the hood    We call it yaay drink old gold    Down my yellow brick road    Then rewrite my script til my story is untold    See i got a little money and my life sped up now    Im fallin and i cant get up      [chorus 2x]      [verse 2: trick daddy]   I had to dream about a dope fiend    And its strange cause he can bearly write or read but seems to get folkz about anything curious about him    I wanted to talk to him but he was to busy fo that    But i was more then welcome to walk with him    As we walked    He talked and i just listen    He said theres a big differnce between crackas and niggas    See he said white folks look out fo the white folks but uh black folks blang wit tha black folks    When they aint enough black roakz    When you ooh to make a long story short    We need pay more attenion and do things that are more compleset and he told me    You kno i woulldnt say something that wouldnt work and i wouldnt damnwaste my time telling something that would hurt you    But you would fall for anything    If you dont stand for something    But thats for certain but niggas dont be listen and that shit be hurting    No all of us but some of us    And if we dont hurry up    They going to bury each and every one of us    And if we dont hurry up       [chorus repeat 2x w/ trick daddy]      [verse 3: ludacris]   Sometimes i cant deal wit my daily issues    Just being sober lifes a bitch and i cant control her    I wish i could and sometimes to cry on    We need a shoulder    The goverment stand us up    To run us over    And in the hood they dont seem to understand    God damn whats really got me wondering    Is if its a part of a bigger plan man    I smell some thing fishy goin on and its way beyond blowin away the smoke from these swisher    Goin on it aint much i can do about it but preach the word of telling my people to spend ya money wisely dont be obcared   By some things that depresiated like what like a home to open ya eyes to    Whats the fucks thats goings on cause the constantly getting rid of us one by one wither its drugs or diesase or gun by   Gun i aint no saint either i feel that im even doing wrong by usein this chorus to get thru this song      [chorus repeat 2x w/ trick daddy]      [outro: trick daddy]   You know yall going to mess around and complain about slavery that was over 40 50 years ago black folks need to move on   Yall keep playin wit a crackerthey going to have yo ass tied up wired up to them back roads south florida and they made   Them laws say they cant do anything for you can a church get a amen and god for the thugs.