Lotta times it seem like you ain't gonna make it   Where you wanna be in life   But yo, yo if ya gotta plan   Believe me you gonna get there   You gonna get everything you ever wanted baby, thas ma word      Trust, ma nigga come home from long bids   They check for me before they see their own kids   I open up accounts for 'em, we bounce tour in   Major cities, arenas, headline with big time singers      Cop Ferrari's with navigational screens   Guide us through your hood and any locality, head back to Queens   Piped out seats, Oakwood MB cord speakers   Bumpin' out old shit      That made me think of Old Easters '86 in a Le Tigre short sleeves   Lees, flip the cuffs up, gettin' fucked up   From Old E, Fresh Fest, niggas got hurt   100 niggas rush the door with Queens Bridge tournament shirts      Back then, nobody wore a vest   Pull out razors, you had to put your hand skills to the test   Get your Pumas took, come home barefoot willin'   Look at the chain I snatched with a medallion worth a thousand      Cops rushed the garden made it home smilin'   Half of the crew probably on the island   Project call play puff ball, the hoop was made out of a hanger   Playin' corners stick the elevator never thought      Project life was promised nothin' but to die trife   For steppin' on the next man's Nike's my motto look for tomorrow   Today is yesterday look at the hood now   I'm mad that it turned out that way      Gats spray these shorties is killers   The older G's taught us well, what's wild now is that they're smaller   And they look at me like I'm on the outside lookin' in   Like 'who's you' when I cruise through   I call Shorty took him in watch your friends, get ends   Be clever, realize that today's the first day that begins forever      Everything will eventually come to an end   So try to savor the moment, 'cuz time flies don't it   The beauty of life, you gotta make it last for the better   'Cuz nothin' lasts forever, you know      Everything will eventually come to an end   So try to savor the moment, 'cuz time flies don't it   The beauty of life, you gotta make it last for the better   'Cuz nothin' lasts forever      Yo, nice cars, livin' like a star club hoppin'   Poppin' bottles at the bar love shoppin'   Gucci iceberg, coppin' two, three nice furs   One for your wife, one for your freak silver spurs      Rolls Royce too good to be true, houses worth 2.2   Pool parties beautiful view   You made it in life, Forbes Magazine style baggy jeans style   Pass the green while hoes wit' meanwhile      Asses, pretty mommies illest bodies pass glasses   Louis Roderra with Peach Schnapps you just relaxin'   Thinkin' damn wish my niggas could afford this   On the sand at your Malibu house holdin' a cordless      Talkin' to lawyers accountants investments   Money doubles, triples protected hard work you manifested   Worries of failure, when you buried will your familia   Keep your name prosperin' to the maximum      You should live, there's only one life that's the physical   Rich or poor in jail why the fuck should you be miserable   Things happen for reasons, the clock keeps tickin'   Love could have your heart beat skippin', thugs turn to religion      The bitch you love could start to hate you   The shit you use to do escape you   Things that make you laugh represent the past   Reminisce the block gamble gees on the floor   Niggas use to be the man, you don't see 'em no more      Your favorite restaurants and favorite stores, they tore 'em down   Turn 'em into shopping malls the hood is like a ghost town   Haunted by souls who thought that time stood still   Just live your life to the fullest, never look back, it's real      Everything must eventually come to an end   So try to savor your moments, 'cuz time flies don't it   The beauty of life, you gotta make it last for the better   'Cuz nothin' lasts forever, ya know      I said everything eventually comes to an end   So try to savor your moments, 'cuz time flies don't it   The beauty of life, you gotta make it last for the better   'Cuz nothin' lasts forever   Ya know, ya know, nothin' lasts forever ya know let it go, let it go