I said I do it for

My life, my life, my life, my life, My life

In the sunshine

The measures of the man gon' be defined by his obstacles

Like through your hardest moments he gon' always keep the table set

I gained that same respect without the numbers or a label cheque

Like we ain't made it to the majors yet, but filled the plates at home base before I made the step

The Rex gon' spin the classics I done gave the set

But this for all the local trenches by the east end down to Jane and Shepp'

Hustling on the job or pushing product off the dresser

The same common goal to get our peoples out the pressure

I seen it way before the city ran my tapes

When father led my hand 'til I demanded space

And let him know I'm headed for the hills without the handle breaks

The shadows of my younger soul that never seemed to stand in place

Back then we never gave our dreams no revising

When summers came the kids without the means know to dive in

But now they got machines and never seen no horizon

Blooming glued to screens so they seem slow to rising, I

Learned through muddy waters over rivers and ravines lives the lows, and may those roads lead to rainbows

And everlasting paradise that came slow

After all your sorrows it won't never seem the same so

Charge it to the game that let a **** tell the stories of my pain and plights

Written on the pages when the scripts ain't had no saviour types

While devils sold they fantasies to dreamers screaming "name your price"

Guarantee my greatness in this world I would have paid it twice

But since I got my own voice I do it for

My life, my life, my life, my life, my life

In the sunshine

My life, my life, my life, my life, my life

In the sunshine

I said I do it for

Your life, they life, we all still living that life

In the sunshine

Still living that life

In the sunshine, in the sunshine