[Ja Rule]

 Dear god, I'm gonna teach you in this prayer

 And I thank you for all the food you've given me

 And all the health and strength

 And may my family be healthy safe and strong

 As well as myself

 And I thank you for everything you've given me thus far, lord

 And I beg your forgivness

 For I sin everyday

 In your sons name, Christ Jesus

 Amen

 

 [Chorus: Ja Rule]

 They all want me dead or alive

 But they'll never take me alive

 I'll get even before I die

 Cuz they all wants me...Dead or alive

 But they'll never take me alive

 I'll get even before I die

 Cuz this world wants me...Dead or alive

 

 [Ja Rule]

 Nigga look at what the streets have done to me man

 Hustlin and strugglin

 I deserve a better hand

 Cuz I'm runnin these streets under they say

 Motherfuckers like you can't relate

 Cuz you ain't all about the hustling all about the bustin

 All about the thuggin, baby

 Never let it go

 If you gotta die, lie, shake it wit a fo'-fo'

 Then do so, cuz that's the life you chose

 Shoul've fallowed the cracks in the road

 You heart and your soul

 Cuz if there's one thing I know

 Good niggaz come and they go

 Bitch niggaz actin like ho's, merely needed to get treated like one

 Hope you got yourself a gun niggaz

 Cuz you know I cock and blow niggaz

 And if right silent the temp, get on some shit

 Go on out, six feet deep and slump niggaz

 Cuz I'm a survivor like Destiny's Children

 To the day of my demise

 I'ma ask the lord why

 

 [Chorus: Ja Rule]

 They all want me dead or alive

 But they'll never take me alive

 I'll get even before I die

 Cuz they all wants me...Dead or alive

 But they'll never take me alive

 I'll get even before I die

 Cuz this world wants me...Dead or alive

 

 [Ja Rule]

 Take a look at what this worlds done made me

 All I really want to do is be happy, and raise my family

 But I'm strong, motherfuckers can't break me down

 Niggaz really gonna hate me now

 As I'm givin a fuck

 I'm tryna get my life together

 Shit a nigga can't ride forever

 Tryna see a hundred mil' or better

 Befo' I die

 Don't ask me why, I

 Got a fasination wit for freak ho's

 New whips wit two seats and two do's

 I've been waitin so long to explode

 Now watch me cock back and unload

 Bullets goin threw the chest and out the back

 Shit is usually how the babry acts

 Now the look in your face is so relaxed

 Now your family moans and deals wit that

 But me, I'm a survivor like Destiny's Children

 Til the day of my demise

 I'm gonna ask the lord why

 

 [Chorus: Ja Rule]

 They all want me dead or alive

 But they'll never take me alive

 I'll get even before I die

 Cuz they all wants me...Dead or alive

 But they'll never take me alive

 I'll get even before I die

 Cuz this world wants me...Dead or alive

 

 [Ja Rule]

 They all want me...Dead

 Why the fuck would they want to see me live?

 So I'm gearin up to get into some shit

 Niggaz better kiss the wife and kids

 It's just the way us niggaz live

 And I run wit real niggaz that run wit big guns

 That are designed to pop ya lid (Shit)

 Never met a real nigga I didn't like

 Never met a bitch nigga that I didn't fight

 Now niggaz gon get down, and a nigga gon lay down

 Dependin on how niggaz view life

 And you'll never look in my eyes

 And you'll never, ever smile

 Cuz your high, is comin down

 And you can't touch me

 But if you really wanna fuck wit me

 C'mon and get your heat my niggaz

 I told u before my niggaz

 Don't ever doubt this nigga

 Cuz I'm a survivor like Destiny's Child

 Til the day of my demise

 I'm gonna ask the lord why

 

 [Chorus: Ja Rule]

 They all want me dead or alive

 But they'll never take me alive

 I'll get even before I die

 Cuz they all wants me...Dead or alive

 But they'll never take me alive

 I'll get even before I die

 Cuz this world w