[Verse 1]
Yo, this starts like the opening scene of Claudine
Fort Greene, [?] Street fiends crowd the clinic for morphine
Lost dreams, the open credits start with kids with the [?] beverage
Five Percent lessons
Old school dudes smoking hectic
Love is the message
Marking the hands of the medics
Suffer from seizures
Black exploitation films play the features
Cooley High
I’m eight rubbing Judy thighs
That’s my babysitter
[?], bomber ski hats, my ’80 pictures
My sister yelling, “You a lazy n***a!”
Call me a brat
Four in the pack
My elder sister got pregnant at 18
My cousin Chucky in state greens
I’m counting [?] in my dreams
Visit by the social worker
Grandma said, “You supposed to worship”
Marks spark when we close to murder
You smile, show me first burner
Reaganology, the senior Bushonomics
[?] stop pushing chronic
The heroin atomic
The Clintonology
The W. Bush astrology
The stars [?], they’re all lies to me
The road to hell’s paved with good intentions
The highway to heaven is the rail of a hood relentless
Pay the preacher when I’m gone
Pay the principal at my prom
Pay the bail if I carry arms
Pay the lawyer if I let it [?]
Pay a teacher if my head is strong
Pay a coach if I catch a ball
Enoch was not transformed to Metatron
God gave ‘em the earth ’til the heavens [?]
Who gave us the dirt? The reverend [?]
Who gave us the hurt? The debt is gone
Who gave us the verse? He read it strong
Led by a hearse into heaven’s arms
Marcus, I miss you
Here’s a tissue
Tear drops turning crystals
[Refrain]
Love is life, is life
Life is love, life is love
Love is life
And life is love
Life is love

Life is love

[Verse 2]
Yo, the clouds shape into a dragon
Dragon blows up nine planets
The planets represent my mind canvas
My mind canvas painted by a clown of madness
Blood stains of a gangster’s pain, the graphics
Fathers and addicts
Undercovers charge us with badges
See who largest on the campus [?]
Granted when go ‘head
The satellites scope us with cameras
Cats selling drugs
Grab the gat, ducking from a hail of slugs
Four deep tatters the realest thugs
Puffing weed, blowing tornados of greed
See the world what you n***as foresee
It’s hard to proceed
Next thing you know you have grays in your goatee
Young dudes call you OG
All your n***as pass on, you only see them in your dreams
Found out your man real name through the eulogy
His son spoke beautifully
No one rep the crew like me
You play the wall where new shorties smack handballs
Try to play the lobby where soon the janitor be cleaning probably
Try to play the front of your building
School bus waiting for little children
Try to hang in your old spot but now it’s a pizza shop
You try your old hideout but it’s a movie theater
Yo, shit’s getting realer
Time is changed
Time for change
Nothing ever stays the same
[Refrain]
Love is life
Life is love
Love is life