Live Your Life Lyrics
You know what I'm sayin'.
Stop lookin' at what you ain't got
and start bein' thankful for what you do got.
Let's give it to 'em baby girl.
Your fancy clothes, your fancy ca-ars
And then you'll see, you're gonna go far
'Cause everyone knows just who you a-are
So live your life (ay), ay ay ay
You steady chasin that paper
Just live your life (oh), ay ay ay
Ain't got no time for no hatas
Just live your life (ay), ay ay ay
No tellin where it'll take ya
Just live your life (oh), ay ay ay
'Cause I'm a paper chaser
Just livin my life (ay), my life (oh), my life (ay), my life (oh)
Just livin my life (ay), my life (oh), my life (ay), my life (oh)
Amazin they ungrateful after all the game I gave away
Safe to say I paved the way for you cats to get paid today
You'd still be wastin days away, now had I never saved the day
Consider them my protégé, homage I think they should pay
Instead of being gracious they violate in a major way
I never been a hater still I love them in a crazy way
Some say they sold yay and no they couldn't get work on Labor day
It ain't that they black or white, it has an area the shade of grey
I'm west side anyway, even if I left today and stayed away
Some move away to make a way, not move away 'cause they afraid
I brought back to the hood and all you ever did was take away
I pray for patience but they make me want to melt their face away
Like I once made them spray, now I could make 'em put the K's away
Been thuggin all my life, can't say I don't deserve to take a break
You would rather see me catch a case and watch my future fade away
Your fancy clothes, your fancy ca-ars
And then you'll see, you're gonna go far
'Cause everyone knows just who you a-are
So live your life (ay), ay ay ay
You steady chasin that paper
Just live your life (oh), ay ay ay
Ain't got no time for no hatas
Just live your life (ay), ay ay ay
No tellin where it'll take ya
Just live your life (oh), ay ay ay
'Cause I'm a paper chaser
Just livin my life
Immaculately polished with the spirit of a hustler and the swagga of a college kid
Allergic to the counterfeit, impartial to the politics
Articulate but still I'll grab a nigga by the collar quick
Whoever havin problems with their record sales just holla TIP
If that don't work and all else fails then turn around and follow TIP
I got love for the game but ay I'm not in love with all of it
Could do without the fame and rappers nowadays are comedy
The hooting and the hollering, back and forth with the arguin
Where you from, who you know, what you make and what kind of car you in Seems as though you lost sight of what's important when depositin
Them checks into your bank account and you up out of poverty
Your values is in disarray, prioritizing horribly
Unhappy with the riches 'cause you piss poor morally
Ignorin all prior advice and fore warnin
And we mighty full of ourselves all of a sudden, aren't we?
Your fancy clothes, your fancy ca-ars
And then you'll see, you're gonna go far
'Cause everyone knows just who you a-are
So live your life (ay), ay ay ay
You steady chasin that paper
Just live your life (oh), ay ay ay
Ain't got no time for no hatas
Just live your life (ay), ay ay ay
No tellin where it'll take ya
Just live your life (oh), ay ay ay
'Cause I'm a paper chaser
Just livin my life (ay), my life (oh), my life (ay), my life (oh)
Just livin my life (ay), my life (oh), my life (ay), my life (oh)
Come walk in my shoes
And see the way I'm living if you really want to
Got my mind on my money and I'm not going nowhere
Look in the mirror and keep on shining
'Till the game ends, 'till the clock stops
We gon' post up on the top spot
In a brand new city got my whole team with me
The life, my life
I do what I wanna do
I will never lose,
I'm living my life, my life
And I'm not stopping
This song is one of the more positive songs out there right now. Too much we hear about "hatin" on people, jealousy doesn't do much for people just make them miserable. Life is what you make of it. You can't blame people for your inability to do better in life. Too many we look at what we don't have and not what we do have. Appreciation and Gratitude have been so underrated. If you live in your past, that's what you'll get. Look forward to a future because you can change that.
The meaning of this song to me is not to let the negative get in the way of your dreams. No one can change who you are except you. You make the choices to do that. Media has a huge unfluence on people. I love the last few lyrics of the song, because I see exactly that in the society we live in.
Where you from, who you know, what you make and what kind of car you in.
Seems as though you lost sight of whats important with the positive.
And checks until your bank account, and you're about poverted.
Your values is a disarrayed, prioritized are horribly.
Unhappy with the riches cause you pis-pone morraly.
Ignoring all prior advice and fore warning.
And we might be full of ourselves all of a sudden, aren't we?
Awesome song... love it!
The lyrics are incredibly contradicting. Sure, "live your life," I got that. But the pursuit of wealth is where it gets muddled. The chorus affirms that she's a "paper chaser," which is okay because she's just living her life as she sees fit. TI's final verse, however, is in constant direct contradiction: he criticizes other people (who are just living their lives) because they "lost sight of what's important when depositing them checks into your bank account." And just before that, he admonishes people for being concerned with "what you make" and "what kind of car you in." What the fuck, TI? Do you really want me to just live my life how I want, "chasin' the paper," if you intend to criticize me for doing precisely that? WHAT SHOULD I DO TI? I'LL BE WAITING HERE, IMMOBILE, UNTIL I GET FURTHER LIFE GUIDANCE FROM YOUR NEXT HIT SINGLE CLARIFYING THESE ISSUES. (Please hurry.)
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Whoever submitted these lyrics either has the IQ of my left nut or is mentally retarded. If you do not know the correct words...then do not submit lyrics.
Your left nut must be pretty intelligent. I believe these are the correct lyrics.
Your left nut must be pretty intelligent. I believe these are the correct lyrics.
can you spell hater? or is it too hard for you? These are the correct lyrics
can you spell hater? or is it too hard for you? These are the correct lyrics
Ok, he's part right cause the person who wrote these lyrics or even came up with remaking the wonderful Numa Numa song is freakin retarted. I hate musicians... I'm sorry where talking about a rapper not a musician. This rapper has no creativity, he has a nice voice (when he actually sings. SING!!!! DON'T TALK, SING!!!!) But when I found Rihanna was gonna be in this, I already had doubts for this song. But when I heard it played, I had no respect for this rapper, and even began to hate him. And here's a message for rappers:
Ok, he's part right cause the person who wrote these lyrics or even came up with remaking the wonderful Numa Numa song is freakin retarted. I hate musicians... I'm sorry where talking about a rapper not a musician. This rapper has no creativity, he has a nice voice (when he actually sings. SING!!!! DON'T TALK, SING!!!!) But when I found Rihanna was gonna be in this, I already had doubts for this song. But when I heard it played, I had no respect for this rapper, and even began to hate him. And here's a message for rappers:
Be creative,...
Be creative, don't take a good song and drag it down to the hip-hop world that you people created. Make up your own music. And if it has potential, then I possibly will have respect, at the moment I'm hating rappers. Stop killing good songs. JUST CREATE YOUR RAP SONG ALREADY AND GET YOUR MONEY, LIVE YOUR "GANGSTER LIFE" AND DIE!!!! IT'S THAT SIMPLE!!!!
P.S. I don't really mean harm to their lives, just don't care for them. Don't think I want to kill them, the only rapper I have the rage kill is Flo Rida, but he's too freakin retarded to waste my time. I'm also have an anger problem, but I'm dealing with it, just get to the point, rappers need to create original songs, and not take good songs and turn them into shit.
i submitted corrections...ughhh. but this song rocks. it's catchy too. "Seems as though you lost sight of whats important with the positive." says it best.
When I first heard this song I really liked it because I thought it was positive. But when I read the lyrics I realized T.I. is basically saying don't hate me because I'm rich. like how can you hate me if I am this rich. So he is actually putting other people down by saying they are unworthy bastards. I think this is actually a negative song instead.
But he's talking to the other rappers. He's surprised they're hating on him for making it into the game and becoming successful when he helped THEM get in that same position by writing some of their lyrics for them.
But he's talking to the other rappers. He's surprised they're hating on him for making it into the game and becoming successful when he helped THEM get in that same position by writing some of their lyrics for them.
my fav part is "the swagger of a college kid"
normally im a hardcore metal head but i like this song cause its not ur typicall rap song consisting of doing drugs sleeping around and bragging about killing cops very well written
im the exact same way. they sang this song at my church and it was sick
im the exact same way. they sang this song at my church and it was sick
sounds possibly hippocritical DOESNT take away the fact its catchy as hell, and not half bad... Eazy E would of had a field day with music like this, if anyone remembers him anymore :(
good song for grinding thats for sure however, i must agree, 0-Zone did better with that bit in making a song
i just can't get past the fact that TI is dedicating this one to the soldiers over numanuma. makes no sense to me. and it's a good album, but it's too repetitive with "i'm the greatest" every 5 seconds.
Uhm.. I don't see that in the lyrics anywhere..
Uhm.. I don't see that in the lyrics anywhere..
yeah fur real mann... gosh this song never says hes the greatest it says life your life and love it and not care what everyone elts says... geezzz. maybe if you got a life u could understand that... and i think that it was agood thing 2 deticate it 2 those soldier ppl...
yeah fur real mann... gosh this song never says hes the greatest it says life your life and love it and not care what everyone elts says... geezzz. maybe if you got a life u could understand that... and i think that it was agood thing 2 deticate it 2 those soldier ppl...