Live by the sword, die by the sword

Believe in the Lord, and the laws of the Lord

And when you ride for the cause, keep an eye on the cause

You ever lose sight, and you blind as a mole

We must decide if they rise, decide if they fall

Alive with the light, you can shine on 'em all

We all designed to be strong, sometimes we'll be right

And sometimes we'll be wrong, we must weather the storm

It's the design of it all, we'll never know it all

Just love one another and honor father and mother

When you kind ?, with hate you'll never know

It's crawled up outta the gutter, the thoughts the spirit help us

When you find you're in a hole, you search you're inner soul

You search to get the truth, and you find you're way to go

It's the design of it all, you'll find what it means

A struggle to succeed when life is like a dream



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That's why the thugs never cry (thugs never cry)

From the thunder and rain, just look into my eyes

That's why the thugs never cry (thugs never cry)

The world is a ghetto, we gots to stay alive

That's why the thugs never cry (thugs never cry)

We're hoping for change and puffin' on some ?

That's why the thugs never cry (thugs never cry)

Bizzy is back, only the strong survive



So wipe the tears with a sleave, and just 'cause you believe

One day you gon have what you want, what you gonna be

When the winds don't blow, and God don't make mo'

Keep an eye on the stone, and oh, just remember

The world gets dark, and you carry your heart

Just open up your opens eyes, and insipre the whole art

From the birds to the bees, the snakes and the trees

The lakes and the sea, the brakes in the sea

And when the tide ship down, and nobodies around

Ain't nothing to be found, and uh... I don't make a sound

No nobody and no preasance and yes you're ? the essance

Of creation in the making and the patiance of the Satans

Ever blessings queen, message to a king, and a gift to a prince

Like a gift to a ring, for the love of a slave

Yes Adam and Eve, a slave that loved God before she bit the tree



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If you do then you ?, you don't then you ? 

You ever been in that situation without a plan?

And if you tried and you can't

Just get up out the streets, and hustle to get your money

And make sure that you be that

I go to church and see sin, get punched in the chin

And a brother saves his brother, you'll never do it again

And the child drinking Hen, and you're mad at his dad

I'm in the army just to keep this whole world in harmony

It ain't nothing like Shaq, whose dad walked out

Who never knew he'd grow and ride and make it out

It's like God and the sun, a flower and a bun

A tower and a plane, that never destroyed none

It's the design of it all, the time of it all

The crime of it all, and the life of it all

Pick up your eyes to the sky, and never ask why

You really know the answers and I



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