Heaven Is So Close-Master P/Mr. Serv-On

[00:15.000]When you born and die [00:18.829](Now I know heaven is so close, so close) [00:20.290]And live in the ghetto (just listen to me) [00:24.500] [00:26.550]If murder is hereditary, then dyin young is my destiny [00:26.766]f** doin time for felonies, the hell for what ya tellin me [00:29.747]It's what I'm seein, believin it's a better side [00:33.126]All I'm seein is my genocide, suicidal thoughts [00:35.906]Brought my mamma broken hearts [00:38.983]I threw a jack at n***as, and drinkin liquor [00:40.848]To help me see God quicker [00:42.904]All it did was have me mad to hear my daughter call me Mr [00:45.008]Her mamma shoulda taught her better [00:47.651]Now I'm writin Dear God letters [00:49.416]Askin how my cousin went from makin hella Gs through the years [00:51.461]To doin $30 hits and alcoholic tears [00:54.900]Fears from these streets scared me [00:57.752]I decided a long time ago, to let the Lord guide me [01:00.350]Through this optimism, kids dyin, I don't know [01:03.506]I guess I miss em, like lil James Darby [01:06.123]And Lil Mann out the projects [01:08.465]Never got to see they happy years, all they felt [01:10.388]Was the blast from a lost tear, and last year [01:12.989]The nation felt shame, but only they mothers felt the pain [01:15.900]To hear the Lord call they name [01:18.584]This game has got me feelin like I'm losin all my sanity [01:20.188]At times I think the world is blamin me [01:23.099]But I ain't lettin em get me down [01:25.150]I'm keepin my head up cause I know I got a dosage [01:27.174]Heaven is so close [01:30.200]Chorus (2X): Heaven is so close [01:31.117](Now I lay me down to sleep) [01:33.501]When you born and die and live in the ghetto [01:34.206](I pray the Lord my soul to keep) [01:36.772]Heaven is so close [01:37.090](And if I should die before I wake) [01:39.828]When you live and die and live in the ghetto [01:40.150](I pray the Lord my soul to take) [01:43.425] [01:47.224]Bill Clinton, you gon feel me [01:53.724]Takin welfare from ghetto children [01:55.303]That's why every hood infected and lookin blurry [01:57.477]I mean every homie I know in the dope game [02:00.299]We sell it, but who make c**aine? [02:03.093]Artificial contaminated [02:06.049]My little homie lost his life for rims that was gold plated [02:08.397]211 ain't nothin but robbery [02:11.943]187 ain't nothin but a hobby [02:14.671]In the ghetto, d**h is like a ??? cheese [02:17.538]I mean yo best friend turn into yo enemy [02:20.616]Lord knows, I don't wanna die young [02:23.262]Earth is hell, heaven is eternal sun [02:26.482]Bury me a G, f** dyin poor [02:29.405]The hood got me trapped, I'm a victim of this ghetto [02:32.375]Mouth full of cooked rocks, standin on the block [02:35.022]100 Gs, two keys, runnin from crooked cops [02:37.935]I done seen little kids lose they life [02:40.968]I done seen n***as mammas smoke the pipe [02:43.879]I done grew up with k**as, my brother died a drug dealer [02:46.496]Like Spice 1 say, even young n***as [02:50.260]Die in the ghetto [02:53.222]You never know when it's yo time, or my time to go [02:55.035]Chorus (2X) Silkk- Man, whattup dawg, I found out [02:59.252]None of us can cheat d**h [03:03.679]No point in ?fakin it out? [03:05.879]See, I was born hustlin [03:07.673]Ain't no way for us out here [03:08.962]In the streets to get off [03:11.197]But, uh, judgement comes for all of us [03:13.824]And when it's yo time to go [03:16.691]Can you go clear conscience? [03:18.419] [03:20.563]See they often told me heaven was close [03:21.562]But I think it's even closer, look [03:23.159]It ain't no fun to have yo name on wanted posters, look [03:24.968]See I ain't got time for b**hes [03:27.645]I keep my hand on my 9, and keep my mind on my riches [03:29.818]It's a everyday struggle, everyday hustle [03:33.087]Tryin to make bank [03:35.325]I went to jail for a couple of months [03:36.557]And I had some time to think [03:37.708]See I really can't take it [03:39.575]Everybody changed up at the last minute to go to heaven [03:41.881]They ain't gon make it [03:44.458]The government ain't got no love for none of us [03:46.041]God, you gotta understand, just think if you was one of us [03:48.072]I be forever ballin in my sleep [03:51.021]Be countin, thinkin, of ways to get out, it's just too deep [03:53.164]I seen so many things and wonder, "Why me?" [03:56.860]I pray to God let my mom die before I [03:59.504]She pray to God, "Don't let my son die before me" [04:01.480]And I wonder, if it's low [04:03.586]They say heaven is a million miles away [04:05.248]But to Silkk it seem so close [04:07.292] [04:08.574]Heaven is so close when you born and die and live in the ghetto [04:09.383]Heaven is so close when you born and die and live in the ghetto [04:14.848](yeah, you know what I'm sayin?) [04:19.860]This goes out to all my dead homies out there [04:22.000](I know how it is up there, you know what I'm sayin?) [04:22.899]You see what I'm sayin? (no red or blue, no black or white [04:24.346]We all the same up there, fool) Sometimes they point the finger [04:27.132]At us ghetto people (you know this go out to all my little dead [04:30.543]Homies out there) Mr. Serv-On, Master P, Silkk the Shocker [04:32.728](P brother, Kevin Miller, slugged up) It ain't changed [04:34.271](You know lil Reg, Joshua Carter) Everybody need life insurance [04:36.084](Howard little brother, you know what I'm sayin? mistakes happen) [04:38.672]You never know when it's gon be yo time to go [04:41.870](you know what I'm sayin, n***a, we with you) [04:42.740]Cause if you live in the ghetto [04:43.958](And my cousin Randall, n***a, I'm gon always see you n***a) [04:44.452]It's like you one step away from heaven [04:46.781](whether I'm dead or alive, my homie D. Fuller, n***a [04:47.285]My homie Mouse, you know what I'm sayin, no matter how you went fool [04:51.233]You still got love from me,it's gon be like to everybody [04:54.860]That done lost somebody, whether it's your mother, your uncle [04:57.870]Your sister, your brother, your child, it doesn't matter [05:00.446]You know what I'm sayin, they all up there, it's gon be one big party [05:03.536]With tangaray and hennesy and pineapple juice, they even get up like [05:07.517]That up there, you know, so y'all take it easy out there [05:10.949]For No Limit, T-R-U, fool, Heaven, Heaven) [05:13.416]Chorus to fade [05:17.928]