[Chorus]

We plot and we plan, but everything's controlled by higher powers

No matter how much you hate it, its evident and its blatant

We plot and we plan, but everything's controlled by higher powers

No matter if you don't like it, there ain't no way you can fight it



[Verse 1]

There ain't no way that you know what you gon' be doing day to day

You might get laid with strays, from some beef that was down the way

And you had nothing to do with it, and now you leaking fluids kid

Your arm blown out the socket, doctor telling you you losing it

Confusing it with movies, they still refuse to believe it

Till the truck jackknifes in front of you while you speeding and you can't weave it

Now you out of luck and out of choices, only seconds left

You gasp, but everything happens too fast to catch a second breath

Or a mother's life ambition, for her son to go to college

Shattered by a nameless bullet in a act of random violence

Perpetrated by his childhood friend he used to go outside with

Now he lay silent with a hole in his chest, and open eyelids

A blowout on a highway can probably make you late

But a blowout on a icy bridge can have you and your kids in the lake

And your family at your wake, praying over your casket

His son didnt make that trip, so I guess hes a lucky bastard



[Chorus]

We plot and we plan, but everything's controlled by higher powers

No matter how much you hate it, its evident and its blatant

We plot and we plan, but everything's controlled by higher powers

No matter if you don't like it, there ain't no way you can fight it



We plot and we plan, but everything's controlled by higher powers

Just as sure as the seasons change, everything happens for a reason

We plot and we plan, but everything's controlled by higher powers

Any second your life could change, if its sunny you might get rain



[Verse 2]

There ain't no way around the fact, whether you white or brown or black

That any moment, any second, any day could be your last

I knew this cat thats very talented in basketball, in fact

He could have went to any college in the nation on his stats

Who would have known that after practice, in the gym next to the track

That he would suddenly collapse and perish from a heart attack

Or a healthy child that was born through the pain of maternal labor

To pass away in his sleep in his bed, three days later

And there ain't no explanation, even after investigation

God I guess wanted to keep him away from Satan's temptations

So he called him back, whats wrong with that? We won't see him tomorrow

Though we know hes in a better place we still live with the sorrow

People ask me how I'm feeling, what I'm doing, I'm chillin'

But before I say what I'ma do I tell em, "God willin'"

Cause I never know whats gonna happen, one day you're here

And the next day you're gone, and the cycle just keeps moving along



[Chorus]

We plot and we plan, but everything's controlled by higher powers

No matter how much you hate it, its evident and its blatant

We plot and we plan, but everything's controlled by higher powers

No matter if you don't like it, there ain't no way you can fight it



We plot and we plan, but everything's controlled by higher powers

Just as sure as the seasons change, everything happens for a reason

We plot and we plan, but everything's controlled by higher powers

Any second your life could change, if its sunny you might get rain



[Verse 3]

Got off the bus with smiling faces, cause school was really live today

And now I'm trying to change my clothes so I can go outside and play

I went inside, my mom is heated, cause when she's mad, she don't smirk

I told a joke, she asked me if I brought home any homework

I said "Naw, its Friday, and after school its my day

And I want to go outside and spend the rest of it my way"

She said, not before you take out the trash and sweep the floor

I thought that wasn't fair cause that's one of my sister's chores

I'm sorta heated, cause I'm trying to get with my mans

Everything was set, my mom was the only wrench in my plans

We was going to the river today, steal boats and ride em

I jumped on my bike as quick as I can, to try to find em

I'm all pissed off at my moms, its about 5:21

By the time I make it down there I'm gonna miss all the fun

When I finally got there, its like 6 and a quarter

Shocked, as I watched the cops drag my friends' bodies out of the water



[Chorus]

We plot and we plan, but everything's controlled by higher powers

No matter how much you hate it, its evident and its blatant

We plot and we plan, but everything's controlled by higher powers

No matter if you don't like it, there ain't no way you can fight it



We plot and we plan, but everything's controlled by higher powers

Just as sure as the seasons change, everything happens for a reason

We plot and we plan, but everything's controlled by higher powers

Any second your life could change, if its sunny you might get rain