[Intro]:
You think a gun makes you a tough guy? Let me tell you something. I seen more guys with guns wet their bed than anything. It's when the other guy has a gun and he pulls his out. And then we see who the real tough guy is

[Hook: Benzino] {x2}
Keep alive loc
Cause if you do you go far
Watch your back dawg
Don't ever sit in parked cars
Keep alive yo
Don't wanna see ya get shot
Watch your back dawg
I know you going through a lot

Keep alive

[Verse One: Tony Rhome]
It's all about keeping your head up above the water
You can't be gangbanging and then be at the club hanging
High roller, fronting on a Motorolla
N***a it's time to keep it real again
Cause they're sentencing n***as that's screaming
You can't go from selling half pounds
And driving Beamers to a cell that'll hold ya
Now your whole shit's looking shady
Hope your lady and your baby's looking into another n***a's eyes
Too many n***as out there be sleeping
When they know they got two or three n***as out looking to get even
How you gonna play yourself short, money grip?
Got caught up in the second stages of getting rich
And all he had to do was realize
He had enemies with killer tendencies
And I roll with these, type of n***as myself
So take it from Tony Rhome and take it stride and keep alive
[Hook 2: Benzino] {x2}
Keep alive son
I know you do a lot of dirt
Watch your back kid, don't wanna see you get hurt
Keep alive son
From all the Feds and all the snitches
Watch your back kid, from all the scandalous ass bitches


[Verse Two]
The butter to the bread, bread to the butter
Straight from the gutter
R.S.O. soul slang bang a gangsta strudder
Gotta stay well fed
In order to do that, it's time to put the butter to the bread
I used to be a hustler selling poisoned consumer goods
Down for my neighborhood
Fuck another neighborhood
Did what I could to make some sort of currency
But what I'm doing is left field and jake keeps on sweating me
They're never getting me, I won't let 'em see
All I can do in jail is die and that's the reason why
So when doe got low cause my spot's hot
I know a nice vic so it's time to lick some shots
When all your ends and everything else to go with it son
Instead of biting bullets you'll bite the gun
Cause n***as ain't having no tricks in the nine six
Any means to survive so I keeps it live
[Hook 3: Benzino]
Keep alive locs
To all the n***as that be banging
Watch your back fools
From one time where you be slanging
Keep alive locs
From Berettas and the Glocks
Watch your back fools
From all the killer ass cops
And keep alive

[Verse Three]
Everyday life is an everyday thing
But it's up to you how you make everything swang
(You never know)
When it's coming to an end
So while the getting's good
You best to get all you can
We ain't got too many options
Yo, but that don't mean to put to your dreams up for adoption
They make dreams we en devour to play
And like Nino said, "That's the American way."
Hey
And to my n***as doing crime in the hood
On the heels of the OJ verdict, it don't look good
"If it don't fit, you must acquit"
But for n***as like you and me, that's a bunch of bullshit
When we working with some public counsel imitators
We can't afford no Dream Team litigators
Watch for the backlash that follows the decision
For the poor it means prison n***a listen
Keep alive yo
[Hook 4: Benzino]
Keep alive loc
Cause if you do you go far
Watch your back dawg
Don't ever sit in parked cars
Keep alive son
I know you do a lot of dirt
Watch your back kid, don't wanna see you get hurt
Keep alive locs
To all the n***as that be banging
Watch your back fools
From one time where you be slanging
Keep alive yo
Don't wanna see ya get shot
Watch your back dawg
I know you going through a lot
Keep alive