Never Surrender

(album: Suffering From Success - 2013)

[Intro DJ Khaled:]
Keep your circle tight
Trust no one, nobody

[Verse 1 Scarface:]
Gotta be careful who you trusting
Beware of your surroundings when you hustling
Them niggas smiling at you ain't your friends, dawg
All the real ones are dead or in the pen y'all
You fuck with dude, he your day one
Almost had it all then the day comes
When they walking through your house with the strap out
Pointing at your head, got the bread then you blacked out
Bright lights down the hallways
Left his best friend for dead for the small wage
They say that every doors got a day coming
It's like he seen a ghost but he ain't saying nothing
Eyes wide shut like he looking at me
Window pains to the soul say that nigga's happy
But the pictures ain't say them words and we dry stomach
The homie didn't keep it one hundred
The cops doing roundups, say they got a suspect
Finally got a name now, I'm still thinkin fuck that
For money, niggas murder what they close to
Entire families is these motherfuckas ghost you
Smoke you, was it worth what the life was?
Just prepared for the payback because it strikes, cause
Was it worth what that life was?
Prepare for the payback when it strikes, cause

[Bridge John Legend:]
When you need it the most ain't no one ever around
Cold world, cold world

[Verse 2 Jadakiss:]
The pain's unbearable, remains unwearable
He fuck around jump of a building if you dare him to
The greats they done already killed him, who you compare him to
You really figure out what he said will take a year or two
Family over everything, skills over politics
He don't need the accolades as long as you acknowledge it
Just playing the hand you was dealt, no aces
Betrayal was worse than death in most cases
The world is filled with hypocrites, this so racist
Multiple shots to the face, No chasers
Mad cause you blew up quick and you excited
Your man that you grew up with get you indicted
This was your nigga, yo
For him you let the trigger go
Found out at the trial they got audio and video
Shit don't always happen how you plan it
Get jammed up and really find out who your fam is
You could feel the picture, you don't need to see the canvas
That nigga Jay'll a Hawk you, he don't even play for Kansas
You know when it's someone you love the hurt's pure
When you front, tryna hold it in, it hurts more
He was right there back-to-back with me, my first war
Even had a crack spot together, the first floor
Used to buzz him in, then meet him right by the first door
That was 'prolly a year before I went on my first tour
Friendship was worth more than a couple of ounces
He was 'sposed to be with me, arguing with the bouncers
Instead you ended up somewhere far in the mountains
Talking 'about what we was doing, what we was counting
None but, old pictures of old sixes
Old BM's with the kids, old snitches
Two sides, both wishes
Karma is the sister of life, they both bitches

[Bridge Anthony Hamilton:]
See there's a story in my life
There's a story in my pain
There's a story in my tears (Oh, oh)
There's a story in me

[Verse 3 Meek Mill:]
Yeah, for life
Lord forgive me for my sins, I was chasing ends
And I'm into making money, I ain't in to making friends
Cause these niggas ratting, I ain't finna take a chance
Homie said he 'bout that action they grabbing me take the stand, damn
Say loyalty make a man, got a homie and he told
I don't even shake his hand, I don't even crack a smile
Knew him since a child, man this game so foul
But niggas made vows to a code I never break
Riding in the heavy weight
Thirty-six O's in the bird, call it feather weight
Never on time, when I show up I be ready late
Niggas got fat while we starved they already ate
And I'm trying to get full, masks on clips full
If he got the money we attack him like a pitbull
We selling soft, we selling hard like it's a brick store
On my dick, nigga, thought that's what your bitch for

[Bridge Akon:]
My pain ain't never been told
All the success that I'm suffering from
Came from this knowledge I sold
My family fucks with me
And fought the enemy that stood in my way
That's why I don't trust nobody
And I doubt you'll ever see that day
'Fore I surrender to you, surrender to you
Surrender to you, surrender to you
Which I will never do

[Bridge John Legend & Anthony Hamilton:]
Cause when you need it the most ain't no one ever around (nobody's around)
Cold world, cold world (yes it is)
And the ones that you keep close are the ones that'll take you down (only take you down)
Cold world, a cold cold world

[Hook Akon x2:]
'Fore I surrender to you, surrender to you
Surrender to you, surrender to you
Which I will never do

[Bridge Anthony Hamilton & John Legend:]
See there's a story in my life (Surrender)
There's a story in my pain (Surrender)
There's a story in my tears (Surrender)
There's a story in me (I won't surrender, I won't Surrender, no, no no)