This Can't Be Life (Album Version|Edited) - Jay-Z/Beanie Sigel/Scarface

Lyrics by：Kanye West/Shawn Carter/Dwight Grant/Brad Jordan/Malik Cox/Kenneth Gamble/Leon Huff

Composed by：Kanye West/Shawn Carter/Dwight Grant/Brad Jordan/Malik Cox/Kenneth Gamble/Leon Huff

Produced by：Kanye West

Geah whassup

Where's all my street project

Real worldwide

Let's reflect e'rybody got a story

We all ghetto be-here's mine

Geah

See I was born in sewage

Born to make bomb music

Flow tight like I was born Jewish

Used the streets as a conduit-I kept arms

Thirty eight longs inside my mom's Buick

At any given moment

Shawn could lose it be on the news

Iron cuffs arms through it

Or stuffed with embalmin fluid

I'm goin' through it

Mom dukes too

Tears streamin' down her pretty face

She got her palms to it

My life is gettin' too wild

I need to bring some sort kinda calm to it

'Bout to lose it voices screamin'

Don't do it

It's like 93 94 'bout the year

That Big and Mag dropped

And illmatic rocked

Outta every rag drop and the

West had it locked

Everybody doin' 'em I'm still scratchin' on the block

Like damn I'ma be a failure

Surrounded by thugs ***** and **** paraphernalia

Cops courts and their thoughts is to derail us

Three time felons in shorts with jealous thoughts

Tryin figure where your mail is

Guesstimate the weight you sellin'

So they can send shots straight to your melon wait

It gets worse baby momma water burst

Baby came out stillborn still I gotta move on

Though my heart still torn life gone from her ****

Don't worry if it was meant to be it'll be soon

This can't be life life life

This can't be love love love

This can't be right

There's gotta be more this can't be us

This can't be life life life

This can't be love love love

This can't be right

There's gotta be more this can't be us

Chill dog

Second oldest born from Michelle Brown my mother

Hell bound grew with two sisters and one brother

Pop wasn't around

So many stories that's another

I'm thinkin' damn

How my older sister gon' make me tougher

When steel sharpens steel

I'ma keep it real

I'm tired of tryin' to hide

My pain behind the syrups and pills

Dead to the world stretched

Out like a corpse for real

Why'all thinkin' what

Why'all readin' in

The source is real

What my life like

You lookin' at the source it's real

What your life like

Mine dog of course it's real

Passin' judgment you second-guessin Beans

'Cause you don't eat swine don't make you Amin

Dog you know a couple suras out the Qur'an

I guess you all on your din and I ain't on mine

Stop that Akki 'fore I send shots though your body

Make 'em feel hell on earth before Allah drop thee

I feel the line's drawn here nuttin more can stop me

Till them feds pick me up or them boys pop me

There's only three things that make Mac not act like Beans

Amatullah Tisha Po Aldin Samir Amin

My seeds dog gotta teach 'em that before I leave dog

**** I know that I'ma see 'em when I leave dog

I come back in the afterlife

Like it I done touched hell

Twice what's the meanin

This can't be life life life

This can't be love love love

This can't be right

There's gotta be more this can't be us

This can't be life life life

This can't be love love love

This can't be right

There's gotta be more this can't be us

Yeah uhh

Now as I walk into the studio

To do this with Jig'

I got a phone call from

One of my nigs

Said my homeboy Reek

He just lost one of his kids

And when I heard that

I just broke into tears

And see in the second hand

You don't really know how this is

But when it hits that close

To home you feel the pain at the crib

So I called mine

And saddened my wife with the bad news

Now we both depressed

Countin' our blessings 'cause Brad's two

Prayin' for young souls to laugh

At life through the stars

Lovin your kids just like you was ours

And I'm hurtin' for you dog

But ain't nobody pain is like yours

I just know that heaven'll open these doors

And ain't no bright side

To losin' life but you can view it like this

God's got open hands homey

He in the midst of good company

Who loves all and hates not one

And one day you gon' be wit your son

I could've rapped about my hard times on this song

But heaven knows I woulda been wrong

I wouldn'ta been right it wouldn'ta been love

It wouldn'ta been life it wouldn'ta been us

This can't be life

This can't be life life life

This can't be love love love

This can't be right

There's gotta be more this can't be us

This can't be life life life

This can't be love love love

This can't be right

There's gotta be more this can't be us

This can't be life life life