[Verse 1:]

Now I was raised in the projects with no running water

Never really knew my father

Sister was a dancer,

Granddad died of cancer,

Momma was a gambler (uh huh)

Ran with the pimps and the hustlers,

Praying the police don't murder us

Never met the president but I met some Mexicans (who fly that kush like the pelicans)



[Chorus:]

Lord I know we won't live forever

Keep my homies together

And if we die before our time (has come)

Tell em' it was glorious

We were warriors, warriors



[Verse 2:]

Now I was born in the seventies when n****as still fist fought

Wasn't no such thing as Tupac

Daddy was a rolling stone,

Momma was a cordless phone,

None of them was ever home (uh uh)

Grandma died when I was twenty-three

In her last days she said to me

Something about fisherman but I wasn't listening

Didn't know it was the last time we'd ever speak again



[Chorus:]

Lord I know we won't live forever

Keep my homies together

And if we die before our time (has come)

Tell em' it was glorious

We were warriors, warriors



[Bridge:]

I call my momma up yesterday

Told her I got found guilty

Don't cry for me

And tell my baby momma hey

I got ten years in the pen

Don't know when I'm coming home again

But it'll be ok... maybe



[Chorus:]

Lord I know we won't live forever

Keep my homies together

And if we die before our time (has come)

Tell em' it was glorious

We were warriors, warriors



[Guitar Break]



[Chorus:]

And if we die before our time (has come)

Tell em' it was glorious

We were warriors, warriors