Intro/chorus      It goes: life, difficult times, and mad crimes   Some pay the price, while others refine   Blessed are those who struggle -- God loves you   And wisdom is the principle thing for kings and queens   (repeat 2x)      Many alliance will end, it's like a sad song   From a violin, trapped like daniel's in the lion's den   Tryin to pie-rce the iron skin, of leviathan   Souls blowin in the violent winds   God help us, if we die in sign, I hear the trials   In the cries of men, that's when the riot begins   Like things never get better, we forever   Servin ebekenezer, since the days of our ancestors   Slaves to a mad pleasure, building great architectures   Sharp dressers, smart professors   Start my lecture, I build lyrics like a art director   Show it to you like the film projector   Blessed are those who struggle, from day to day we all hustle   Comin home with sore muscles, and scarred faces   Scuffed knuckles, we all share the same trouble   Seperated couples, sometimes it seem like   There's no escapin, the clutches of satan   Spendin years in state pens, awaitin patient   Dreams of a scholarship, ended by a hollowtip   Politics and number slip      Chorus      Once, shoved in ships, now we bloods and crips   Thugs with clips, niggaz who love the clicks   Hit the clubs and shit, so they can rub their hips   Hugs and flicks, niggaz with drugs and whips   Cash rules this rotten apple, they got a worm in it   Corrupt sinners, in my man's jeep   With the windows tinted, sippin guinness   Observin all the clinics, and liquor spots   They make me lick a shot through the rooftop   I never seen the glory   In the ghetto it's the same story   Ciggarette butts and cold coffee, black faces   And white mouths, they cry out, for the white house   Ain't no wealth shared, it's welfare   And poor health care, self scared   It's senseless, the way they got our black princess   On public assistance to end our existance      Chorus      It's a blessing... to struggle   It's a blessing...   (repeat 2x)   Yeahhyeahhh, it's a blessing, just a blessing   It's a blessing... *fades*