Born to Lose - Empire Cast/Swizz Beatz.mp3

[00:20.18]I got my hands in the air
[00:21.50]Officer don't shoot
[00:22.71]Told them I couldn't breathe
[00:23.91]Then he gave me the boot
[00:25.40]Cause they be giving the time
[00:26.55]But never gave me the loot
[00:27.74]They got my back to the wall
[00:29.05]So what a brotha going do
[00:30.25]Took a couple of l's
[00:31.43]They say a try is a fail
[00:33.07]It's either put on the mask
[00:34.13]Or throw the work on the scale
[00:35.54]Times done change
[00:36.53]But I can't even tell
[00:37.90]It's only two ways to go
[00:39.10]It's going be freedom or jail
[00:40.34]They gave lucious a case
[00:41.50]And he couldn't even bail
[00:42.78]Judge gave him a option
[00:44.14]Go to trial or tell
[00:45.34]Now he sitting in prison
[00:46.51]While the governor fishing
[00:47.73]We gotta draw up the plan
[00:49.14]Then accomplish the mission
[00:50.42]You put a cat in the corner
[00:51.78]He going be scratching and hissing
[00:53.02]We going survive in the ghetto
[00:54.34]Cause the people ain't living
[00:55.55]So how a leader going lead
[00:56.89]If he ain't got the vision
[00:58.14]I had a dream in my head
[00:59.52]I gotta break outta prison
[01:00.45]Oh lord
[01:01.29]
[01:12.22]I wanna live
[01:13.48]
[01:14.58]I wanna live my life today
[01:17.10]
[01:18.50]Make a better way for me and you
[01:21.68]
[01:23.47]When the sun woke up
[01:24.68]I got on my knees to pray
[01:26.65]
[01:28.42]Let the injustice
[01:29.57]Be solved and mended today
[01:31.54]
[01:32.17]Do you live for the love
[01:33.78]
[01:34.60]Do you live for the hate ohh
[01:36.65]
[01:38.31]It's like you make it
[01:39.37]Then they take it
[01:40.16]And you can't get it back ooh
[01:42.21]Do you believe in the creator
[01:43.98]
[01:44.59]Do you even know anymore
[01:46.78]
[01:48.42]It's like you make it
[01:49.45]Then they take it
[01:50.30]And you can't get it back ooh
[01:52.01]
[01:53.14]I wanna live
[01:54.65]
[01:55.79]Wanna live my life today
[01:57.75]
[01:58.78]Make a better way for me and you
[02:02.24]
[02:03.92]The sun woke up
[02:05.03]I got on my knees to pray
[02:07.21]
[02:08.71]Let the injustice
[02:10.15]Be solved and mended today
[02:12.46]Do you live for the love
[02:14.11]
[02:14.99]Do you live for the hate ohh
[02:17.08]
[02:18.34]It's like you make it
[02:19.83]Then they take it
[02:20.60]And you can't get it back oh
[02:22.58]Do you believe in the creator
[02:25.13]Do you even know anymore
[02:27.14]
[02:28.62]Aye it's like you make it
[02:29.98]Then they take it
[02:30.67]And you can't get it back oh
[02:32.17]No justice no peace
[02:32.95]In these troubled times like these
[02:34.19]I'm down on one knee
[02:35.25]And I'm praying for what I need
[02:36.76]So whatever's in that dark
[02:37.78]Is going always come to that light
[02:39.30]So if you shot him in his back
[02:40.80]Two wrongs ain't never made it no right
[02:42.21]Tried to test my strength
[02:43.03]And I fought with all my might
[02:44.33]Took a page out of this chapter
[02:45.51]Just to reconcile my life
[02:46.73]We hate that lucious going through it
[02:48.19]We know that he ain't do it
[02:49.68]
[02:52.20]Let's change for the better
[02:53.13]Make the world a better place
[02:54.60]United as a people
[02:55.57]Be the winners of the race
[02:56.85]And never kill the joker
[02:58.05]Cause he used to be a ace
[02:59.46]It's things outta life
[03:00.56]That you just can't replace
[03:01.92]Like the sketches to the drawing
[03:03.19]That the pencil couldn't trace
[03:04.81]Empire