Joy and pain
The Highs & Lows
The Rise & Falls
The Ups & Downs
This is why I'm alive
Joy and pain
The Highs & Lows
The Rise & Falls
The Ups & Downs
It's good to be live
I'm starting right now might not make it to Monday morning
One day in Southern California it started pouring
No umbrellas haters throwing salt more than Morton
Love the little fellas know I'm the man not Orkin
Like girls that order healthy portions and are well proportioned
Prefer a whale over frail I can tell you're snorting
You're really a dork like you can't afford Jordans
Not a fluke when I come out on top like a dorsal fin
Sharks rarely come up for air you dare snorkeling?
More skin attracts them beware when it's scorching
Extra careful with the China dishes rare Porcelain
Open doors for you change the world like Jim Morrison
Like I'm the Black Power Ranger time for Mighty Morphing
Fortunate I wasn't a miscarriage or abortion
The product of my parents' courting, marriage, and sporking
I'm uncorking bottles here I could a been an orphan Cheers
Born and raised in LA wasn't always a Laker hater
87-88 Magic was my favorite player
In no time came the Mike Showtime see ya later
Like all ladies got AIDS I don't know won't lay her
God only knows the way we go I'm no savior
Even if she don't wanna be saved I'm gon' save her
She savor the taste of the bass and liked my flavor
Exactly what they asked for don't owe me no favors
I owe it all to hip hop it's been a life saver
Don't watch Star Wars I sky walk a light saber
Up all night and ain't a raver like my neighbor
The loneliest Crusader I be on my best behavior
That was the only way that Moms would let me keep my pager
Try and take her advice to pay her back for love and labor
She gave me the same grey hair that I gave her
Came out of nowhere like all these Black skaters
Oh my
Moms kept me by her now be like you go boy
Used to keep me grounded now she say I'm so fly
Still rock my argyle socks no bowtie
Stay true that's just something I do I don't try
Can't believe everything is truth why I'm gonna lie?
Sometimes just to get through to you I'm gon' pry
But we gon' get to the resolution don't cry
Like tear ducts in your eye don't produce they're bone dry
And live your life like you finally feel you don't die
Growing up I had cold older cousins from the Chi
Even though they said it was my voice wasn't too high
Never was unabashed or bashful or too shy
Ask anybody that knows me they'll say I'm a good guy
In a land of vowels and consonants I vow to be a Y
To get my point across I cross my T's dot my I's
The Highs & Lows
The Rise & Falls
The Ups & Downs
This is why I'm alive
Joy and pain
The Highs & Lows
The Rise & Falls
The Ups & Downs
It's good to be live
I'm starting right now might not make it to Monday morning
One day in Southern California it started pouring
No umbrellas haters throwing salt more than Morton
Love the little fellas know I'm the man not Orkin
Like girls that order healthy portions and are well proportioned
Prefer a whale over frail I can tell you're snorting
You're really a dork like you can't afford Jordans
Not a fluke when I come out on top like a dorsal fin
Sharks rarely come up for air you dare snorkeling?
More skin attracts them beware when it's scorching
Extra careful with the China dishes rare Porcelain
Open doors for you change the world like Jim Morrison
Like I'm the Black Power Ranger time for Mighty Morphing
Fortunate I wasn't a miscarriage or abortion
The product of my parents' courting, marriage, and sporking
I'm uncorking bottles here I could a been an orphan Cheers
Born and raised in LA wasn't always a Laker hater
87-88 Magic was my favorite player
In no time came the Mike Showtime see ya later
Like all ladies got AIDS I don't know won't lay her
God only knows the way we go I'm no savior
Even if she don't wanna be saved I'm gon' save her
She savor the taste of the bass and liked my flavor
Exactly what they asked for don't owe me no favors
I owe it all to hip hop it's been a life saver
Don't watch Star Wars I sky walk a light saber
Up all night and ain't a raver like my neighbor
The loneliest Crusader I be on my best behavior
That was the only way that Moms would let me keep my pager
Try and take her advice to pay her back for love and labor
She gave me the same grey hair that I gave her
Came out of nowhere like all these Black skaters
Oh my
Moms kept me by her now be like you go boy
Used to keep me grounded now she say I'm so fly
Still rock my argyle socks no bowtie
Stay true that's just something I do I don't try
Can't believe everything is truth why I'm gonna lie?
Sometimes just to get through to you I'm gon' pry
But we gon' get to the resolution don't cry
Like tear ducts in your eye don't produce they're bone dry
And live your life like you finally feel you don't die
Growing up I had cold older cousins from the Chi
Even though they said it was my voice wasn't too high
Never was unabashed or bashful or too shy
Ask anybody that knows me they'll say I'm a good guy
In a land of vowels and consonants I vow to be a Y
To get my point across I cross my T's dot my I's