Born 2 Live - O.C.

Like the dead-end kids, we used to play in the streets

Never worrying about grief, football spelled relief

Ronnie Ritney was the coach for us

See, he taught us to play almost every single day, okay

Now on Evergreen was Larry and Mike and Lon

My cousin Boo lived there too, just to name a few

And Cha-rone, he’s bad to the bone, Boo’s little sidekick

Had a badass mouth, he sufficed it

On Harmon Street, with Zach, Leo and Ed

Meet Jody and Boop by June, Rocky, and then

Comes Tommy and Cedric, Lamont and Greg, unique in our own right

At times we’d fight, but that’s aight

Still, not realizing we had love, it showed when we played

The phony charades against one another

Now, while I write this song

It’s like some are still alive and a couple are gone

We’re born to live a life and die

Life’s so damn short, man, I wonder why

We’re born to live a life and die

Life’s so damn short, man, I wonder why

We’re born to live a life and die

Life’s so damn short, man, I wonder why

We’re born to live a life and die

Life’s so damn short, man, I wonder why

As kids, you’re overlooking death

It didn’t seem important or serious, it just seems curious

It was about waking to a bowl of cereal

Cartoons on Saturdays, karate flicks in life

Riding your skateboard or bicycle

It went as deep as Killer Joe on the corner drinking Ripple, plus

Puerto Rican kids on the block were cool, we got along

We all knew right from wrong

By far, we got a dose that life was hard

A Spanish kid we were close with was killed by a car

Shocking, Alberto was hit on the block, and

Death was spontaneous, his moms was clocking him

Cross the street, he just received an award

For Little League Baseball like a hour before, plus

He didn’t even get to see the summer set in

Dying all young at the age of seven

It opened up my eyes more that the flesh was weak

As a kid, thinking shit like that was mad deep

Peep it

We’re born to live a life and die

Life’s so damn short, man, I wonder why

We’re born to live a life and die

Life’s so damn short, man, I wonder why

We’re born to live a life and die

Life’s so damn short, man, I wonder why

We’re born to live a life and die

Life’s so damn short, man, I wonder why

Now, when somebody is gone, that’s when you realize how close you was

How close you are, like a scar

Real deep, it takes time to heal

And, still, from time to time, you wish you could find the way to forgive

And let ‘em know you forgave

But they can’t feel six feet deep inside the grave

What’s left but attend his wake?

Believing if it was you, he’d do it for old time’s sake

Damn, I’m disturbed by the news when I was told, I was sitting

Knowing damn well Boo ain’t bullshitting

My life flashed like big bills of cash and good times we had

Now it’s all so sad

One of my childhood pals hit the road

When you take to the streets, then you die by the code

But in this case, who knows what went down?

Bottom line is wishing that he still was around

Now, he found a spot in my heart, or should I say lobotomy

Mike, yo, you’re trapped inside of me

And every other brother in Bushwick who rushed to your side thick

All down with the clique

Yeah, God bless, he laid to rest

Called him Mike Boogie, that’s what describes the nigga best

We’re born to live a life and die

Life’s so damn short, man, I wonder why

We’re born to live a life and die

Life’s so damn short, man, I wonder why

We’re born to live a life and die

Life’s so damn short, man, I wonder why

We’re born to live a life and die

Life’s so damn short, man, I wonder why

We’re born to live

We’re born to live

We’re born to live

We’re born to live

Like that, y’all, like that, y’all