I gotta get by, light a cigarette high, an hour of nay.
I gotta get by with my hope in my eye and it's hard to breathe.
Look at the monster the streets of Soweto raised in me Now all that hate I don't have the courage for facing me
The life I'm living is the one that they would wish for.
I embrace all the negative cause it's what I get rich from.
They hope they could relate.
That's all I can say.
I never planned to be one of the best.
So quit thinking this will end because it only begins.
Huh?
Who's the illest by far?
Who's the realest?
They say it's me soon as they see the car is the meanest
This is what the streets means.
This is what your chick means.
You were given a shot at it and blew it.
Now you dismiss.
Bunch of suckers.
Bunch of strugglers.
I'm the chosen one.
Let's enjoy this.
I'm a chicken.
I gotta get by, buy a cigarette high in the hour of May.
I gotta get by with my hope in my eye and it's hard to breathe.
Take a look in my eyes, see the pain.
See the pain.
I'm taking the right to get away.
Get away to paradise, paradise.
Paradise, paradise, paradise
Paradise.
Whistling, whistling in the morning like a band.
Hello, good morning.
Are you still in bed?
The sun is rising.
Hell, I'm feeling great.
All the troubles behind me.
No more feeling dead.
Woke up and I prayed to God.
I never failed you, God.
I'll stay skimming instead still winning this game hypo every day we're still dealing with hate
But we ain't willing to fade.
We're willing to face all the troubles.
Powerless is cause of me, don't need to watch you.
Whole life's on me, how can I be humble?
How can I be humble in this concrete jungle?
If I want I will hand you then mind you smartphone I will never found who was born to be smart show
Do you feel my struggle?
I gotta get by.
Cigarette hype.
an hour of nay I gotta get by with my hope in my eye
Take a look in my eyes.
See the pain, see the pain.
I'm taking the ride.
Get away, get away to paradise.
Paradise Paradise Paradise
Paradise.
Paradise.
I pray for a better tomorrow.
My people are struggling, struggling and living in sorrow.
Sorrow, you only live once, Baba Yolo So Imali, Pambili, Pambili, your kunye can follow
For long as an adolescent, if I needed, I had to have it.
Yeah, even if it means resorting to desperate measures.
Now every minute, every second I'm counting my blessings and calculating my moves Boy, simple mathematics
My neck of the woods is a jungle.
Everybody has a dream.
None of them become real.
Lana, it's a done deal.
Some go to jail, some die.
Killed and AIDS doesn't get you the gun well Hintwa Nengane trying hard to be
cool they all wanna be a part of a crew money is a marketing tool is violence a bargaining tool cause debt looks
Living is harder to do.
I say, keep your head up, head up.
Do what you gotta do and keep it together, together.
Whenever you fall, you got to get up.
Get up.
Get up.
Get up.
I said get up.
Let's go.
I gotta get by.
Let the light shine.
I gotta get by.
I gotta get by.
Cause the dreamer don't die.
Break free.
Break free.
