Uncle Murda - Same Way lyrics

Hey you don't know what you got until you lose it Hey you don't know what you got until it's gone [Hook] We all came up the same way Then grew apart in the same way It's kinda strange how the money and material things Give a n***a a tad he can't play I remember I used to slain yay But then with them bills I ain't paid So who's to blame when society don't want you to change They just want you to maintain plain [Verse 1] You know, blame my environment for how I act You know my neighborhood We started from nothing We was poor I had too much ambition And I wanted more School and a regular job wasn't gonna cut it Lil brother stealing money out my grandmama's purse How I'm gonna be for him and try to explain things He probably got it from me I used to do the same thing I see the pain in her face I know she hurting We can't keep doing that to her that ain't gonna work So we got that work and we made it work Now instead of taking money, we put money in her purse ‘Fore she go to church [Hook] [Verse 2] You know society set up for us to fail They give us poor education They want us to go to jail I was at the bottom like what the f**? Looking at the top like that's a long way up I ain't scared of heights, homie, so I got to climbing I come from a dark place, now looking to shining Only thing I'm scared of is God and the feds Lost a lot of close friends and they ain't even dead ‘f** the same page, we ain't even reading the same book Homie you ain't struggled with me You wasn't there with me n***as that I start with is eatin' Mr. Chow wit me I don't want my kids knowing nothing about no welfare Tell the government we don't need none of that fake healthcare They can keep their healthcare [Hook]