Hustlers Lament

All aboard!
The final train to heaven or hell
Don't miss this ride!

I don't wanna be here, I wanna get to heaven
I don't wanna be here, I wanna see heaven
Been hurtin' all my life, all I know is suffer
Been hustlin' all my life, all I know is struggle

At the age of six I learned how to flip
CD and DVD shit
Pirated, before the internet and Netflix cut us out of it
Summer mornings we'd post up
Outside the beauty supply
Stepdad paid the Asian owner
So he wouldn't call the cops on us
Young and Black learning economics
Business principles they teach in college
Predestined entrepreneur
Money generatin' connoisseur
Those days still stick wit' me
'Till the day I die, I'mma be a hustler
Legal bitness ever go under
Get it out the mud, get it out the gutter
Textbooks or that street life?
I've seen crops of both planted seeds
Chose freedom with the student life
And I came up slowly

I don't wanna be here, I wanna get to heaven
I don't wanna be here, I wanna see heaven
Been hurtin' all my life, all I know is suffer
Been hustlin' all my life, all I know is struggle

I'm on my way to one of two places
On a elevator and I can't see
Which way it's goin', if it's up or down
But I pray I'm found by mercy
It hurts me
To think of all who've been catapulted into the flames
As if life ain't hard enough,death met wit' eternal pain
The whole aim of our walk on earth
Is to give Him praise then return to dirt
All we need is a "Well done my faithful servant"
Then forever's yours
Streets of gold and a perfect peace
What more could you ask for?
Dried eyes, for the pain has ceased
Forevermore spent with The Lord

Been hurtin' all my life, all I know is suffer
(All we got is faith)
Been hustlin' all my life, all I know is struggle
(All we got is faith)