You wanna stay alive, but you’re losing yo’ drive.  
 "Situation dread, mad ‘tings a roll around in my head."
You wanna stay alive, but you’re losing yo’ drive.  
 ‘Tings so dread mi wan’ cry, lose mi’ motivation fi’ try." 
You wanna stay alive, but you’re losing yo’ drive.  
 The only way fi’ deal with what wi’depon,  
 Jesus Christ is mi’ weapon.  

Verse I  

Music fo’ the mind, that’s what I design I find when I look,  
I see we be fallin’ behind.  My calling is to rhyme, but I need support   
so I’m lookin fo’ the trendsetters, the go getters, the true representers,   
to join me in an effort to resurrect the culture from the vultures that elect to neglect,  
not reflect, on the positive facts, puttin all that foul stuff on the wax.  

This kind of Hip Hop representer will make a difference and put God in the center.    
Non-relenter, one who keeps going, flowing, mad skills showing, not omniscient   
but still very knowing about our position.  We should be blowin’ up like nuclear fission.   
Instead we fallin’ back, instead we fallin’ back, instead we fallin’ back. Dig it!  

People look for props just because they black. That’s whack! Mon’ mi’ cyan   
dipend ‘pon dat.    

I’m not doin’ this just because I think my rhymes are phat.  
I’m not doin’ this cause I think I’m all that.  
I’m not doin’ this cause mi’ love to chat.  
Yo people are sick, call the doctor  STAT!  

You wanna stay alive, but you’re losing yo’ drive. (3x)  
The only way fi’ deal with what wi’ depon.  
Jesus Christ is mi’ weapon.  

Verse II  

From time to time, I can feel a divine rhyme comin’ in my mind,   
givin’ me a sign about people who always feel. No matter what they do,  
they gonna get a bad deal. Some on drugs, not makin’ it, some on welfare   
they not shakin’ it but I got words of encouragement.    
Message of love to fight against discouragement.  

Yo’ back is breakin’ your life is painstakin’ you can’t feed yo’ kids on what you been makin.   
What can you do, you think yo’ life is through. Lookin’ all around,  
noone to turn to. You wanna stay alive but you losin’ yo’ drive. Can’t find a job,   
your nervous, your heart throbs...your wife sobs, your kids are cryin’.    

Drinkin’ all the time, you feel like yo’ dyin.  
I think there’s a cure for what you’re feelin.  
I’m talkin’ bout spiritual healin - Transfiguration of the mind. (Romans 12:1-3)  
Renewal of the soul follows close behind.  
YO! Don’t sweat me…ain’t nothin to it.  All you need is the will to go through it.  
Once you did it, you’ll be glad you did it. Got to be in it to win it …the holy spirit.   
Once ya’ change you’ll never be the same.  
More prayer, More power, born again.   

You wanna stay alive, but you’re losing yo’ drive. (3x)  
The only way fi’ deal with what wi’ depon.  
Jesus Christ is mi’ weapon.  

Verse III  

...and what does it take to break the pattern of the world and a spiritual man make?  
It takes conviction, persons of distinction, to show that morals are not in extinction.  
A special person who wants to give more than the average man, to consider God’s plan.  
Booze is what you chose and you high on crack but 2-BZ musak  is callin you back.  

Makin’ you realize and not forget that you’re life is not over yet.  
You have work to do. God can use you. So don’t let your problems abuse you.  
He’ll take you from a bottomless pit, put you in positions of leadership.  
Reward comes in the form of the children who benefit from your reform.  
Feel the joy, see it in the eyes of the kids who otherwise   
might have died if you didn’t step in to give ‘em the wisdom that you have within.  

Do you want to see another die from his brother’s bullet, to know that you got to get to it.   
Love is a message that you have to share.  Grab someone close and tell m in they ear.  
"I care about you, Ya mon, yo’ family too."   
Each one teach one and we all know, that’s how the spirit flow  
...and if yo’feelin’ ashamed and you have no aim - going through hell, sitting in a jail cell.   
Wherever you are, if you can hear the sound of my voice, tOObizzy care.   
You are the one that can make a decision to change yo’ life, and yo’ conditions.   
Pave the way, start today, and get motivated in a serious way.  

This goes out to the brothas in prison, it’s my purpose, it’s my mission.   
It’s a part of my Christian mission to motivate ya, stimulate  ya,   
remind you there’s a reason why   
God created ya.  

Yo’ life is not through. God can use you, not judgin you,  
jus’ here to let ya know ya have a purpose in life G, so don’t let it go…