16 On Death Row Lyrics by Tupac

16 On Death Row Lyrics

    Death Row
    That's where motherfuckers is endin up

    Dear mama, I'm caught up in this sickness
    I robbed my adversaries, but slipped and left a witness
    Wonder if they'll catch me, or will this nigga snitch
    Should I shoot his bitch, or make the nigga rich?
    Don't wanna commit murder, but damn they got me trapped
    Hawkin while I'm walkin, and talkin behind my back
    I'm kind of schizophrenic, I'm in this shit to win it
    Cause life's a Wheel of, Fortune here's my chance to spin it
    Got no time for cops, who trip and try to catch me
    Too fuckin trigger happy, to let them suckers snatch me
    Niggaz gettin jealous (jealous) tryin to find my stash
    Whip out the nine, now I'ma dive and pump your ass
    Peter picked a pepper, but I can pick a punk
    Snatched him like a bitch, and threw him in the trunk
    The punk thought I was bluffin, but swear I'm nothin nice
    Before I take your life, first wrestle with these, mics
    I listen to him scream, Tray Deee went insane
    I guess the little, mites had finally found his brain
    New Rovers pull me over, I'm sentenced to the pen
    Remember that little, bird, he snitched and told a, friend
    It's trouble on my mind, I'm with the old timers
    And fuck five-oh, blaow blaow.. turn em into forty-niners

    [Tupac sings]
    Bye bye, I was never meant to live
    Can't be positive, when the ghetto's where you live
    Bye bye, I was never meant to be
    Livin like a thief, runnin through the streets
    Bye bye, and I got no place to go...
    Where they find me? 16 on Death Row

    Dear mama, these cops don't understand me
    I turned to a life of crime, cause I came from a broken family
    My uncle used to touch me, I never told you that
    Scared what you might do, I couldn't hold you back
    I kept it deep inside, I done let it fuel my anger
    I'm down for all my homies, no mercy for a stranger
    The brother in my cell, is 16 as well
    It's hard to adapt, when you're black and you're trapped in a livin Hell
    I shouldn'ta let him catch me
    Instead of livin sad in jail I coulda died free and happy
    And my cellmate's raped on the norm
    And passed around the dorm, you can hear his asshole gettin torn
    They made me an animal
    Can't sleep, instead of countin sheep, niggaz countin cannibals
    And that's how it is in the pen
    Turn old and cold, and your soul is your best friend
    My mama prayed for me
    Tell the Lord to make way for me, prepare any day for me (why?)
    Cause when they come for me they find a struggler
    To the death I take the breath from your jugular
    The trick is to never lose hope
    I found my buddy hangin dead from a rope, 16 on Death Row

    [Tupac sings]
    Bye bye, I was never meant to live
    Can't be positive, when the ghetto's where you live
    Bye bye, I was never meant to be
    Livin like a thief, runnin through the streets
    Bye bye, and I got no place to go...
    Where you find me? 16 on Death Row

    Dear mama, they sentenced me to death
    Today's my final day, I'm countin every breath
    I'm bitter cause I'm dyin, so much I haven't seen
    I know you never dreamed, your baby would be dead at 16
    I got beef with a sick society that doesn't give a shit
    And they too quick to say goodbye to me
    They tell me the preacher's there for me
    He's a crook with a book, that motherfucker never cared for me
    He's only here to be sure
    I don't drop a dime to God bout the crimes he's commitin
    on the poor, and how can these people judge me?
    They ain't my peers and in all these years, they ain't never love me
    I never got to be a man, must be part of some big plan
    to keep a nigga in the state pen
    And to my homies out buryin motherfuckers
    Steer clear of these Aryan motherfuckers
    Cause once they got you locked up
    They got you trapped, you're better off gettin shot up
    I'm convinced self-defense is the way
    Please, stay strapped, pack a gat every day
    I wish I woulda known while I was out there
    Now I'm straight headin for the chair

    [Tupac sings]
    Bye bye, I was never meant to live
    Can't be positive, when the ghetto's where we live
    Bye bye, I was never meant to be
    Livin like a thief, runnin through the streets
    Bye bye, and I got no place to go...
    Where you find me? 16 on Death Row

    16 on Death Row
    It's to all my partners in the penitentiaries
    16 on Death Row

SEARCH LYRICS