There's a time work and time for play

Let's get it straight

Can't be running, shooting, gunning at them

Gotta beat the street

Beat it

Once upon a time

I had a dream (Beat the street, beat the street)

We made it through the hardest times

I heard my mind scream

Gotta beat the street, you gotta beat the street

(Beat the street, beat the street, beat the street, beat the street)

Gotta beat the street, you gotta beat the street

(Beat the street, beat the street, beat the street, beat the street)

(Beat the street, beat the street)

It's a shame to waste your life out on the busy avenue

It's a shame, it's a shame

Baby, better back a way out before it's too late

(Better watch out, you better watch out)

Move on to somewhere that's real, do it now, you got to make it

(Beat the street, beat the street)

(Beat the street, beat the street)

People running, people gunning, hustling

People running, people gunning, hustling

We made it through the hardest times, don'tcha fall, don'tcha fall

Now it's the time to get it straight, yeah get it straight

Gotta beat the street, you gotta beat the street

(Beat the street, beat the street, beat the street, beat the street)

Gotta beat the street, you gotta beat the street

(Beat the street, beat the street, beat the street, beat the street)

(Beat it)

(Beat it)

There's a time for work and a time for play

We made it through the hardest times, don't you fall

You got to make it, you can be there (Beat the street, beat the street)

'Cause it's your life (Beat the street, beat the street, beat the street, beat the street)

You got only one life to live, don'tcha waste it

No gunning, no hustling, before it's too late

(Beat the street, beat the street, beat the street, beat the street, beat the street, beat the street)

(Beat it)