Lyrics:

[Ma$e talking]

I dont regret nothin that ive ever done

at this point i dont owe nobody an explanation



[Ma$e]

Man they love you when you up

kick you when you down

look around vh1 man where arr they now

life is amusin nobody like to see you cruisn

but evrybody like to see you losin

so i stop despisn on top a lies

im livin prophet side i'll be ostracized

one day i lost my rodeydum the day i hit the podium

now im back on top

salty like sodium

a gift to this world man

rappn with a ribbon

whyy do you look for a dead among the livin

some thought i was crazai

some thought i was bytchn

some said i was lazy

some said i was diffrent

i was so loaded

that evrybody flowd it but once i got to notice

then i got focusd

and then i saw they motive so everybody voted

so i did the way i wrote it and lived it the way i quote it

cmon



[Chorus]

Gotta Survive in this life thats been given to me

when it seems like the world keeps scratchin on me

when im down i get by just keep it real,

Gotta survive, Gotta survive,

Gotta survive in this life thas been givn to me

so i try and i try to be all i can be

when it seems like the world keeps scratchin on me,

Gotta survive, Gotta survive



[Ma$e]

Now the block tried to tell me what im not

pull up in a bot now im all-uh sudden hot

now they wanna stop just to look at what i got

thought they was my homie left me out to rot

so i had to make it on my own

take it on my own

i wanted out the hood i had to 'scape it on my own

blieve me now its easy now cuz evrybody seen me now

and im on tv now

but it startd out with no budget

then i took it round the world and the folks love it

in the beginin mangs my life was so rugged

but now i shine like a gold nugget cuz i made the most of it

i know how u feelin man i was weary

some days i used to sit there my eyes all teary

thinkin to myself do anybody hear me now i know,

u makin a dolluhz not a theory

cmon



[Chorus]

Gotta Survive in this life thats been given to me

when it seems like the world keeps scratchin on me

when im down i get by just keep it real,

Gotta survive, Gotta survive,

Gotta survive in this life thas been givn to me

so i try and i try to be all i can be

when it seems like the world keeps scratchin on me,

Gotta survive, Gotta survive



[Ma$e]

Ive been laughd at

talked about

ridiculed

but m dot bethay is style not a bitter dude

and you know its no coincident

that me and you is not so intimate

i cant fake

i dont shake

i dont break

i dont lose i dont use i dont bruise

i never lack and im never goin back

im nuthin you ever saw tho

im tellin you im immortal



[Chorus]

Gotta Survive in this life thats been given to me

when it seems like the world keeps scratchin on me

when im down i get by just keep it real,

Gotta survive, Gotta survive,

Gotta survive in this life thas been givn to me

so i try and i try to be all i can be

when it seems like the world keeps scratchin on me,

Gotta survive, Gotta survive



Got-tuh Got-tuh survive,

keep ur head held high

Got-tuh Got-tuh survive,

keep ur head tuh the sky,

Got-tuh Got-tuh survive,

we can make it if we try,

Got-tuh Got-tuh survive,

gotta survive

gotta survive



[Ma$e talkn w/ chorus in bckgrnd rpeatin twice]

Yeh

you know theres nuthin in this world

that cud seperate me

from what i believe

from what i've achievd

all a dis is bcuz a him

and im tellin you now as much as yall dont wanna hear dis

i could do nuthin by myself

its all through him its all through him

so all around the world

you dont even know sucess

until you know him

and him is jesus