[Chorus]
I'm getting ready for the heartaches to come
Stay ready and you won't have to get ready
I'm getting ready (Ready), I'm (Ready) I'm getting (Ready)
Ooooh
I'm getting ready for the heartaches to come
Stay ready and you won't have to get ready
I'm getting ready (Ready), I'm (Ready) I'm getting (Ready)
Ooooh

[Bridge]
Didn't I do the best I could now didn't I?
I really tried to do my best-best
'Cause you taken away all my reasons for living
Now can I get that back-back?
Didn't I do the best I could now didn't I?
Yes, I did my very best, best
'Cause you taken away all my reasons for living
Now can I get that back?

[Verse 1]
Brought up in Brick City, that ain't no cloth you can cut
My momma didn't raise no suckas in Pam's house
Come some of the toughest, Gladys and Colliu
Miss granny and grandpapa
Allah knows how much I miss and love you
They passed away and then family start separatin'
Drug addiction afflicted, created hella situations
So hard to maintain, me and Stevie playing with matches
One morning burned down the house on a day that it rained
And then the heartaches came
Wasn't really nobody to point the blame but all the pain
Many tear stains left mama drained
Daily we gang banged through and through the ghetto
Lil' n***as raising havoc
Throwin' them thangs like you would imagine, it was magic
Still we can't take life for granted, it seems we just don't get it We lettin' our young ones get caught in the madness
Madness, it's sad, all I see is apathy
It's tragic
We never snap out of it 'til one of us in a casket
Dropped out of Allegheny College
Chasin' the fame, state our claim made our name
The game would never be the same
Then n***as did change
You would of thought Flesh was winnin'
But a date with angel dust, from there my troubles would begin
[Chorus]
I'm getting ready for the heartaches to come
Stay ready and you won't have to get ready
I'm getting ready (Ready), I'm (Ready) I'm getting (Ready)
Ooooh
I'm getting ready for the heartaches to come
Stay ready and you won't have to get ready
I'm getting ready (Ready), I'm (Ready) I'm getting (Ready)
Ooooh

[Bridge]
Didn't I do the best I could now didn't I?
I really tried to do my best-best
'Cause you taken away all my reasons for living
Now can I get that back-back?
Didn't I do the best I could now didn't I?
Yes, I did my very best, best
'Cause you taken away all my reasons for living
Now can I get that back?

[Verse 2]
Big Flesh always been deadly the way I hold it down
That undisputed champ 'cause its my camp that hold the crown
We stomp the ground from Cleveland all the way to Cali
On the Greyhound on a do-or-die mission evadin' bounty hunters
Hustle in the hood then punch the clock at KFC
Fronted the ends I got to cop double ups of D-O-P-E
Did the best I could to get me and me n***as out the hood Seems my best wasn't good enough, went and put it all on the wood
Out of my mind, went crazy, Stack punching windows out
Self-inflicted the pain, my n***as broke out, man, I don't blame 'em
Woke up in the hospital with T-Ski right by my side
Told me to strap my seat belt on and took me for a wild ride
In and out the county, Wayside, we super max
Exhausted my options once those felonies started stackin' up
Shermed out, man, all I had to do was detox
Before I got off the bottle, it was courtrooms and lots of cops
I made my bed, I had to lay on it with spikes and all
Spiraling off the wall went on a head-long fall
Call it what you want 'cause I'll be back kicking up dust
I must, and, yo, it ain't over 'til that skinny n***a bust
[Chorus]
I'm getting ready for the heartaches to come
Stay ready and you won't have to get ready
I'm getting ready (Ready), I'm (Ready) I'm getting (Ready)
Ooooh
I'm getting ready for the heartaches to come
Stay ready and you won't have to get ready
I'm getting ready (Ready), I'm (Ready) I'm getting (Ready)
Ooooh

[Bridge]
Didn't I do the best I could now didn't I?
I really tried to do my best-best
'Cause you taken away all my reasons for living
Now can I get that back-back?
Didn't I do the best I could now didn't I?
Yes, I did my very best, best
'Cause you taken away all my reasons for living
Now can I get that back?