Yeah, geah, Roc-A-Fella   We invite you to somethin' epic y'all know?   Well, we hustle out of a sense of hopelessness   Sort of a desperation   Through that desperation we come addicted      Sorta like the fiends we accustomed to servin'   But we feel we have nothin' to lose   So we offer you, well we offer our lives right   What do you bring to the table?      While I'm watchin' every nigga watchin' me closely   My shit is butter for the bread they wanna toast me   I keep my head, both of them where they supposed to be   Hoes'll get you sidetracked then clap from closed feet      I don't sleep, I'm tired, I feel wired like codeine, these days   A brother gotta admire from four fiends away   My pain wish it was quick to see, from sellin' 'caine   'Til brains was fried to a francaise, can't lie      At the time it never bothered me, at the bar   Gettin' my thug on properly, my squad and me   Lack of respect for authority, laughin' hard   Happy to be escapin' poverty, however brief      I know this game got valleys and peaks, expectation   For dips, four percent pertation we stack chips, hardly   The youth I used to be, soon to see a mill'in   No more, Big Willie my game has grown prefer you call me William      Illin' for revenues, grateful dim the light   Channel 7 news, round seven jewels, hand gettin' the mic   Forgettin' all I ever knew, convenient amnesia   I suggest you call my lawyer, I know the procedure      Lock my body can't trap my mind, easily   Explain why we adapt to crime   I'd rather die enormous than live dormant that's how we on it   Live at the main event, I bet a trip to Maui on it      Presidential suites my residential for the weekend   Confidentially speakin' in codes since I sense you peekin'   The INXS rental, don't be fooled my game is mental   We both out of town dog, what you tryin' to get into?      Viva, Las Vegas, see ya, later at the crap tables   Meet me by the one that starts a G up   This way no fraud Willie's present gambling they re-up   And we can have a pleasant time, sippin' margaritas      G-g-geah, can I live?   Can I live?      My mind is infested, with sick thoughts that circle   Like a Lexus, if driven wrong it's sure to hurt you   Dual level like duplexes, in unity, my crew and me   Commit atrocities like we got immunity      You guessed it, manifest it in tangible goods   Platinum Rolexed it, we don't lease   We buy the whole care, as you should   My confederation, dead a nation, explode      On detonation, overload the mind of a said patient   When it balls to steam, it comes to it   We all fiends gotta do it, even righteous minds go through this   True this, history school us to spend our money foolish      Bond with jewelers and, watch for intruders   I stepped it up another level, meditated like a Buddhist   Recruited lieutenants with Ludicrous, dreams of   Gettin' cream let's do this, against TDS   So I keep one eye open like, CBS, ya see me   Stressed right? Can I live?      Can I live?   Can I live?   Can I live?   Roc-A-Fella, y'all