It's easy to pull a breezy, smoke trees and we stay drunk
When, all you really need is love
To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by
Yo, yo, yo, yo
And I've been thinking, I've got my reasons
Not the ones between Venus and Mars, the ones that be readin' for parts
Just to stop smokin' and stop drinkin'
Just to get by, just to get by
Just to get by, by, by
We deceive when we lie and we keepin' it fly
When people decide, to keep a disguise
You love to eat and get high
Feeling my highs and my lows in my soul and my goals
We do or die like Bed-Stuy through the red sky
With the window of the red eye
Just to get by, for a piece of the pie
Publishers: PEN SKILLS MUSIC, SONGS OF WINDSWEPT PACIFIC, WB MUSIC CORP., YE WORLD MUSIC
To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by
We survivalists, turned to consumers
Strong or feeble in mind, I stay readin' the signs
We rock like Paul McCartney, 'From now until the last beatle drop'
Shit and all they got is rappin' to listen to
Saturday sinners Sunday morning at the feet of the Father
Some people cry and some people try
To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by
These words, melt in my mouth
Strong or feeble in mind, I stay readin' the signs
Now, why would I lie? Just to get by? Just to get by, we get fly
The TV got us reachin' for stars
We sell, crack to our own out, the back of our homes
Yeah, my Lord, yeah
We commute to computers
We keeping it gangster say fo shizzle, fo sheezy and stayin' crunk
But there's people you find
Yo, I activism attackin' the system, the Blacks and Latins in prison
Spirits stay mute while you eagles spread rumors
Yo, yo, yo, yo
But there's people you find
Our parents sing like John Lennon, 'Imagine all the people watch'
Yo, yo, yo, yo
We smell the musk at the dusk in the crack of the dawn
Can't see they eyes, see the evil inside
Your position is pivotal, I ain't bullshittin' you
When people decide, to keep a disguise
Can't see they eyes, see the evil inside
I let them know we missin' you, the love is unconditional
You love to eat and get high
I think about a struggle and I find the strength in myself
Numbers of prison they victim black in the vision
Just to get by, for a piece of the pie
Me and Willa raised three daughters all by herself, with no help
Yo, yo, yo, yo
Feeling my highs and my lows, in my soul and my goals
Just to get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by
Some people cry and some people try
They need somethin' to rely on, we get high on all types of drug
We deceive when we lie and we keepin' it fly
Just to get by, just to get by
We go through, 'Epidodes II' like 'Attack of the clones'
They hot, like the jail cell in the South
Before my nigga Core bailed me out
Even when the condition is critical, when the livin' is miserable
This morning, I woke up, feeling brand new and I jumped up
Let the lead fly, some G. Rap shit, 'Livin' to let die'
Yo, yo, yo, yo
I paint a picture with the pen like Norman Mailer
Some people get breast enhancements and penis enlargers
And I've been thinkin', I've got my reasons
Just to get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by
Just to get by, just to get by
Work 'til we break our back and you hear the crack of the bone
This morning, I woke up, feeling brand new and I jumped up
Ask him why some people got to live in a trailer, cuss like a sailor
Songwriters: Tk Greene, Nina Simone, Kanye West
Just to stop smoking and stop drinking
Just to get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by