Ain't no second time to appreciate   Ain't no second time to appreciate   Ain't no second time to appreciate   Ain't no second time to appreciate   Ain't no second time to appreciate      First of all, you better count your blessings   When you got C.L. now you got bad boy, your connections   In return, while we live and we learn then you know what it is   To only build a bigger future for the kids      In peace, in war, let's take it to the floor   Every time we take two steps the crowd takes four   Lay the heat, how I come to the street, how I cut through the beef   Let me handle that, that's why you make me chief      It's packed, what they want in this here   Can we weather the storm, six minutes, C.L. Smooth you're on   All the anger and the fear was in the dressing room prayer   That we came out to light it up and put it in the air      That's real, so holler back at ya boy, step aside Leroy   To all my ladies, who want tickets, enjoy   'Cause I spit it and you gotta get with it and you'll never forget it   Yes, I want the best out, count 'em all      Ain't no second time to appreciate   To the fans and to all my people that supported us   Ain't no second time to appreciate   To the mama and the daddy and everything they taught us      Ain't no second time to appreciate   Tell them kids they gotta stay in school or ride with us   Ain't no second time to appreciate   When it all goes down, baby, all we got is us      You tell 'em this is history in the making, avoiding disasters   This run is for the green jacket, I fit the masters   My crew havin' business, save, put it in through my office   The security is tight and the secretary is gorgeous      That's official, me and Pete in the lab, that's what they want   Pushin' that real hip hop up to the front   The game's been good to me, preserved my youth   Not only did it capture my goals and told me the truth      Look out my hustle, made a living, paid and driven   See why they tour around the world came to save us from prison   It's great, I rather love than hate   You think it fell out the sky, I'm here to tell you, why believe in faith      Hard work payin' of and them wishes comin' true   Bolt open and you out to lunch and left us two   Now you know we can't let that pass to get that cash   We in the big numbers, count 'em all      Ain't no second time to appreciate   To the fans and to all my people that supported us   Ain't no second time to appreciate   To the mama and the daddy and everything they taught us      Ain't no second time to appreciate   Tell them kids they gotta stay in school or ride with us   Ain't no second time to appreciate   When it all goes down, baby, all we got is us      Why my uncle doc left me everything when he died   And when pop passed, two weeks later I cried   And when great grandma left it all went crazy now   All I had left was grandma Pam, that's my baby      Can't talk bad about me, she tell 'em why we need to give her   All those roses while she could smell 'em   I live this moment used to stay how we was   How my mother came to her in a dream and told her      Corey will come out of this deep dark depression, stand by me   Give my insight a resurrection and heal me   And feel me, what you got is to love, got a thing   This little woman who brought back the thug, let's grind      Ghetto's of the mind while I'm in my prime   I left, so y'all can catch up, I'm ahead of my time   Your legacy and that lazy boy say it ain't fear   My next generation triple my digits, add 'em up like      Ain't no second time to appreciate   To the fans and to all my people that supported us   Ain't no second time to appreciate   To the mama and the daddy and everything they taught us      Ain't no second time to appreciate   Tell them kids they gotta stay in school or ride with us   Ain't no second time to appreciate   When it all goes down, baby, all we got is us