Текст песни A Lot 2 Live 4 - Kris Kross

When I was your age, I wanna be a ball player
I'm wishing about being a ball player
About being a race car driver or astronaut.
You ain't, you ain't afraid to die
I respect that, man. I respect that.
But what about I have to live for, Mike?
Man, there ain't nothing to live for!
(Uh, uh, uh)
Being by where I live and it's making me sick
Brothers got me gettin' from goin' to school, but I can't quit
Cuz if I do (if you do), I'll be through (you'll be through)
My tough rhymes will beat me till I'm black and blue (ooh)
So what I do is take it day by day
Get in school and get a lecture with my pants in the wrong way
Then they try to ban them after wearing braids
Oh yeah, even though I was keepin' up my grades
But yo, it didn't matter (Why?) 'cuz just cause I'm with it
They kept called the posse tryna get me to quit it
I've got some friends that be treatin' me mean
Jealous 'cuz they've seen us on the TV screen
(They wanna beat us down 'cuz we ain't around anymore)
(They wanna beat us down 'cuz we ain't around anymore)
But they gots to understand I'm still down with my crew
I just got some business to attend to
But never will we ever go shady (shady)
And turned my back on my hood 'cuz the hood is what raised me
Uh, what's funny is I ain't grown up
Hope we did something to keep some of the young up here
From being torn up (torn up)
But now I'm considered as a role model (role model)
So it ain't something older like it
Turnin' up an old gold bottle (huh)
I pray and pray that everything is good
Cuz it's rough and tough growing up as lil' boys in da hood
If we wasn't doing this, we'd be out the back door
But I was told like I'm telling you got something to live for
Break 'em off some
You ain't afraid to die
I respect that, man. I respect that
But what about I have to live for, Mike?
You ain't, you ain't, you ain't, you ain't afraid to die
I repsect that man. I respect that
But what about I have to live for, Mike?