The Warning

[Ja Rule]

Dear god, I'm gonna teach you in this prayer

And I thank you for all the food you've given me

And all the health and strength

And may my family be held safely and strong

As well as myself

And I thank you for everything you've given me thus far, lord

And I beg your forgivness

For I sin everyday

In your sons name, Christ Jesus

Amen



[Chorus: Ja Rule]

They all want me dead or alive

But they'll never take me alive

I'll get even before I die

Cuz this world wants me...Dead or alive

They all want me dead or alive

But they'll never take me alive

I'll get even before I die

Cuz this world wants me...Dead or alive



[Ja Rule]

Nigga look at what the streets have done to me man

Hustlin and strugglin

I deserve a better hand

Cuz I'm runnin these streets under they say

Motherfuckers like you can't relate

Cuz you ain't all about the hustling all about the bustin

All about the thuggin, baby

Never let it go

If you gotta die, lie, shake it wit a fo'-fo'

Then do so, cuz that's the life you chose

Shoul've fallowed the cracks in the road

You heart and your soul

Cuz if there's one thing I know

Good niggaz come and they go

Bitch niggaz actin like ho's, merely needed to get treated like one

Hope you got yourself a gun niggaz

Cuz you know I cock and blow niggaz

And if right silent the temp, get on some shit

Go on out, six feet deep and slump niggaz

Cuz I'm a survivor like Destiny's Children

To the day of my demise

I'ma ask the lord why



[Chorus: Ja Rule]

They all want me dead or alive

But they'll never take me alive

I'll get even before I die

Cuz this world wants me...Dead or alive

They all want me dead or alive

But they'll never take me alive

I'll get even before I die

Cuz this world wants me...Dead or alive



[Ja Rule]

Take a look at what this worlds done made me

All I really want to do is be happy, and raise my family

But I'm strong, motherfuckers can't break me down

Niggaz really gonna hate me now

As I'm givin a fuck

I'm tryna get my life together

Shit a nigga can't ride forever

Tryna see a hundred mil' or better

Befo' I die

Don't ask me why, I

Got a fasination wit for freak ho's

New whips wit two seats and two do's

I've been waitin so long to explode

Now watch me cock back and unload

Bullets goin threw the chest and out the back

Shit is usually how the babry acts

Now the look in your face is so relaxed

Now your family moans and deals wit that

But me, I'm a survivor like Destiny's Children

Til the day of my demise

I'm gonna ask the lord why



[Chorus: Ja Rule]

They all want me dead or alive

But they'll never take me alive

I'll get even before I die

Cuz this world wants me...Dead or alive

They all want me dead or alive

But they'll never take me alive

I'll get even before I die

Cuz this world wants me...Dead or alive



[Ja Rule]

They all want me...Dead

Why the fuck would they want to see me live?

So I'm gearin up to get into some shit

Niggaz better kiss the wife and kids

It's just the way us niggaz live

And I run wit real niggaz that run wit big guns

That are designed to pop ya lid (Shit)

Never met a real nigga I didn't like

Never met a bitch nigga that I didn't fight

Now niggaz gon get down, and a nigga gon lay down

Dependin on how niggaz view life

And you'll never look in my eyes

And you'll never, ever smile

Cuz your high, is comin down

And you can't touch me

But if you really wanna fuck wit me

C'mon and get your heat my niggaz

Don't you ever prevoke my niggaz

Don't ever doubt this nigga

Cuz I'm a survivor like Destiny's Child

Til the day of my demise

I'm gonna ask the lord why



[Chorus: Ja Rule]

They all want me dead or alive

But they'll never take me alive

I'll get even before I die

Cuz this world wants me...Dead or alive

They all want me dead or alive

But they'll never take me alive

I'll get even before I die

Cuz this world wants me...Dead or alive

[Repeat once]