Life Is Real - Zebee

Intro + shout outs) Boogie man, boogie man, boogie man BOOGIE MAN! (Hello children!) My whole life is real My life {*4X*} A-ha, Brooklyn you know My life {*4X*}, it's a real thang [Mos Def] Listen My whole life is real, morning news and nights is real What I spit and I write is real, cuz my life is real My own life is ILL! Filled with magic's strife to scale Sun bright, no time to chill, got all type of bills I got seeds I gotta feed with this They be needin shit, I got ex-wife beef and shit That's how deep it get My whole life is real, my whole life is ill A fantastic, a beautiful mess And life nigga in America: the usual stress I do it to the up, low, the east and the west, I Do it to most, I do it to death I do so it good they don't know what to do with theyselves Well do this: MOVE! Back, forward, mo' Life is real, let's move on [Hook] My whole life is real, morning news and nights is real What I spit and I write is real, cuz my life is ILL Filled with magic's strife to scale Sun bright, no time to chill Got all type of bills I got seeds I gotta feed with this I got streets I gotta reach with this That's how deep it get [Mos Def] My whole life is ill, my whole life is real Mornings, noon's, nights Birthdays, workdays, holidays, funerals. the usual Life is real! Sunday to Monday, schoolyard gunplay, politics, bullshit Life is real! Shootings, stabbing, free tray, arrest Crush, kill, destroy, cheques Death. rebirth Reach the world but touch the street first Life goin in every direction but rewind Niggaz is waiting for the light to dive down On a park a hustler plays the hide out Somebody's gotta notice it's a matter of time before the world fine out The earth dry out and push the hintin to high ground, life style--Hostile Real, life real real So real, too real, news real--edited The close up block out the rest of it True evident, false measurement Crunk superstar, thug president Tricks allegiance, M-def payment ship Scribe lively, so timely, that is timeless And is lovely, and is ugly, as it must be [Hook] [Outro] My whole life is real, ha-haa! Brooklyn know My life my {*4X*} B.X. know My life my (*4X*} Real niggaz all over the world My life my {*4X*), it's a real thang Whoooo! Boogie man!

If you think this is real life If you think this is real life I made a promise to you Then took it back again I made a mess of your heart I think we're fallin' apart I made you wait in the rain You said you'd never change You said that I was unfair Your words, they poison the air It's unacceptable If you think this is real life Look and you may find Run, son, it's your sunlight Don't act so uptight You said that we should get help You thought we'd talk it out Fuck what the therapist said It's just something he read I said my summer was fine You said, "Well, that's a change!" "See I slept with one of your friends" I think you'd call this the end It's unacceptable If you think this is real life Look and you may find Oh-ooh, run, son, it's your sunlight Don't act so uptight You're so uptight You're so uptight You're so uptight I said that I would move on I thought I'd see the world But I stay in, watching the news At night I think about you It's unacceptable If you think this is real life Look and you may find Run, son, it's your sunlight Don't act so uptight If you think this is real life (You're so uptight) If you think this is real life (You're so uptight) If you think this is real life (You're so uptight) If you think this is real life (You're so uptight)

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