This Life Chose Me

[Intro]

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Block stays quiet till it don't

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[Verse 1]

Grew up where the sirens sing you lullabies

Mama worked doubles I was raised by the avenue

Twelve years old first time I held a burner

Hands shook but my face stayed stone

Older heads told me loyalty is currency

Spend it wrong and you're paying with your ribs

So I learned every corner like a scripture

Learned which doors open and which ones close

[Chorus]

This life chose me I ain't choose it back

Fists up family first that's the only pact

Blood on the pavement where my brother sat

I carry him with me and I don't look back

This life chose me I ain't choose it back

Fists up family first that's the only pact

[Post-Chorus]

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Ain't choose it back

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Ain't choose it back

[Verse 2]

Now the block is a business and I'm the ledger

Everybody eats if nobody gets greedy

I've seen rivals turn brothers and brothers turn ghosts

Seen a man lose his soul over a corner store

Funerals feel like family reunions

Same faces different caskets every season

I don't sleep much I just watch the perimeter

Paranoia is a roommate that never leaves

[Chorus]

This life chose me I ain't choose it back

Fists up family first that's the only pact

Blood on the pavement where my brother sat

I carry him with me and I don't look back

This life chose me I ain't choose it back

Fists up family first that's the only pact

[Post-Chorus]

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Ain't choose it back

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Ain't choose it back

[Bridge]

I could walk away

I could walk away

But the kids on my street need somebody to stay

Somebody to stay

[Verse 3]

Grandma prays for me every single Sunday

I don't answer calls when the news might break her

Told my little cousin go to school go be something

Don't be me don't be this don't be nothing

I plant seeds I'll never sit under

Water them with every dollar every hunger

If I don't make it out then I make it better

That's the whole entire point of the letters

[Chorus]

This life chose me I ain't choose it back

Fists up family first that's the only pact

Blood on the pavement where my brother sat

I carry him with me and I don't look back

This life chose me I ain't choose it back

Fists up family first that's the only pact

[Post-Chorus]

Uh

Ain't choose it back

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Ain't choose it back

[Outro]

Yeah

Family first

Always

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