Race Against Time

(album: Venni Vetti Vecci - 1999)

In my race against time I can't stop
Running through the red light, living my life
Even if I'm getting too hot
I'ma keep running through the red light, living my life
In my race against time I can't stop
Running through the red light, living my life
Even if I'm getting too hot
I'ma keep running through the red light, living my life

God, why the hell am I here?
Is it a blessing, or a painful lesson of life and its directions?
Date of conception, two twenty-nine
I was birthed and won't be denied
Look into these eyes and witness lives tragedies
The boy who made slaves out of men, that's me
For every lock, there's a key
The only thing that ever made me click was cash money
So that I lust for
Be it one of my deadly sins
You know the seven, that I got all of them deep within
Sometimes I slip, but you be there to pick me up
Down I'm on my knees like what's up
Cause only in a world that's corrupting the sick
Could you dare to look at my life and call it innocence
Got me to a better sense, cause what's yours is mines
Hear me, Lord, I'm running out of time

In my race against time I can't stop
Running through the red light, living my life
Even if I'm getting too hot
I'ma keep running through the red light, living my life
In my race against time I can't stop
Running through the red light, living my life
Even if I'm getting too hot
I'ma keep running through the red light, living my life

Nobody cry for me, cause I
Wanna see you smile for me when I die
Look through my windows to the soul
Tell me if you see Ja living to grow old
Cause too many niggas done died for what I hold
The talented warmer world, which is so cold
Take me, save me, before I'm crazy
The only reason I live is for my baby
Never did you tell me that, life ain't a game
Maybe if you told me this, shit might be changed
But now, I'm just racing against time trying to survive
And see why, y'all niggas drive over nigga's vibe
If you gonna live, know you gonna die
If you gonna steal, know you gotta lie
Get drunk and stay high
Don't de-nigga-ny
Cause they'll never take me alive
Feel me, Lord, I'm running out of time

In my race against time I can't stop
Running through the red light, living my life
Even if I'm getting too hot
I'ma keep running through the red light, living my life
In my race against time I can't stop
Running through the red light, living my life
Even if I'm getting too hot
I'ma keep running through the red light, living my life

I fears no man, but when it's time to go, I'm gone
Racing through the darkness, learning what's right from wrong
Looking for the light, but all I see is the night
When everything else is bright
What happened to my life?
Is this what I am? Is this what I've become?
A nigga that don't give a fuck about nothing and no one
Cold, even though I gotta burning desire
Within my soul I must set this whole world on fire
If I control my destiny, maybe one day
I'll give this world the best of me
You know I never been one to judge right or wrong
I embraced and showed you love
Then I throw slugs at the other side
Go get 'em in broad daylight
What a nigga would give to live my life
You don't want it, cause if you could get it you would try
Feel me, Lord, Ja has arrived

In my race against time I can't stop
Running through the red light, living my life
Even if I'm getting too hot
I'ma keep running through the red light, living my life
In my race against time I can't stop
Running through the red light, living my life
Even if I'm getting too hot
I'ma keep running through the red light, living my life
In my race against time I can't stop
Running through the red light, living my life
Even if I'm getting too hot
I'ma keep running through the red light, living my life
In my race against time I can't stop
Running through the red light, living my life
Even if I'm getting too hot
I'ma keep running through the red light, living my life