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[00:15.000]Artist: Mr. Serv-On f/ Master P, Silkk, Kenya Miller
[00:15.000]Album: Life Insurance
[00:15.000]Song: Heaven Is So Close
[00:15.000]Lord, have mercy (try to sleep) Heaven is so close
[00:15.000](But with all this bloodshed and letdowns)
[00:15.000]When you born and die and live in the ghetto
[00:15.000](Just won't let me sleep, but it's one thing)
[00:15.000]Heaven is so close (that's gotta smile on my face)
[00:15.000]When you born and die
[00:18.829](Now I know heaven is so close, so close)
[00:20.290]And live in the ghetto (just listen to me)
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[00:26.550]If murder is hereditary, then dyin young is my destiny
[00:26.766]f** doin time for felonies, the hell for what ya tellin me
[00:29.747]It's what I'm seein, believin it's a better side
[00:33.126]All I'm seein is my genocide, suicidal thoughts
[00:35.906]Brought my mamma broken hearts
[00:38.983]I threw a jack at n***as, and drinkin liquor
[00:40.848]To help me see God quicker
[00:42.904]All it did was have me mad to hear my daughter call me Mr
[00:45.008]Her mamma shoulda taught her better
[00:47.651]Now I'm writin Dear God letters
[00:49.416]Askin how my cousin went from makin hella Gs through the years
[00:51.461]To doin $30 hits and alcoholic tears
[00:54.900]Fears from these streets scared me
[00:57.752]I decided a long time ago, to let the Lord guide me
[01:00.350]Through this optimism, kids dyin, I don't know
[01:03.506]I guess I miss em, like lil James Darby
[01:06.123]And Lil Mann out the projects
[01:08.465]Never got to see they happy years, all they felt
[01:10.388]Was the blast from a lost tear, and last year
[01:12.989]The nation felt shame, but only they mothers felt the pain
[01:15.900]To hear the Lord call they name
[01:18.584]This game has got me feelin like I'm losin all my sanity
[01:20.188]At times I think the world is blamin me
[01:23.099]But I ain't lettin em get me down
[01:25.150]I'm keepin my head up cause I know I got a dosage
[01:27.174]Heaven is so close
[01:30.200]Chorus (2X): Heaven is so close
[01:31.117](Now I lay me down to sleep)
[01:33.501]When you born and die and live in the ghetto
[01:34.206](I pray the Lord my soul to keep)
[01:36.772]Heaven is so close
[01:37.090](And if I should die before I wake)
[01:39.828]When you live and die and live in the ghetto
[01:40.150](I pray the Lord my soul to take)
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[01:47.224]Bill Clinton, you gon feel me
[01:53.724]Takin welfare from ghetto children
[01:55.303]That's why every hood infected and lookin blurry
[01:57.477]I mean every homie I know in the dope game
[02:00.299]We sell it, but who make c**aine?
[02:03.093]Artificial contaminated
[02:06.049]My little homie lost his life for rims that was gold plated
[02:08.397]211 ain't nothin but robbery
[02:11.943]187 ain't nothin but a hobby
[02:14.671]In the ghetto, d**h is like a ??? cheese
[02:17.538]I mean yo best friend turn into yo enemy
[02:20.616]Lord knows, I don't wanna die young
[02:23.262]Earth is hell, heaven is eternal sun
[02:26.482]Bury me a G, f** dyin poor
[02:29.405]The hood got me trapped, I'm a victim of this ghetto
[02:32.375]Mouth full of cooked rocks, standin on the block
[02:35.022]100 Gs, two keys, runnin from crooked cops
[02:37.935]I done seen little kids lose they life
[02:40.968]I done seen n***as mammas smoke the pipe
[02:43.879]I done grew up with k**as, my brother died a drug dealer
[02:46.496]Like Spice 1 say, even young n***as
[02:50.260]Die in the ghetto
[02:53.222]You never know when it's yo time, or my time to go
[02:55.035]Chorus (2X) Silkk- Man, whattup dawg, I found out
[02:59.252]None of us can cheat d**h
[03:03.679]No point in ?fakin it out?
[03:05.879]See, I was born hustlin
[03:07.673]Ain't no way for us out here
[03:08.962]In the streets to get off
[03:11.197]But, uh, judgement comes for all of us
[03:13.824]And when it's yo time to go
[03:16.691]Can you go clear conscience?
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[03:20.563]See they often told me heaven was close
[03:21.562]But I think it's even closer, look
[03:23.159]It ain't no fun to have yo name on wanted posters, look
[03:24.968]See I ain't got time for b**hes
[03:27.645]I keep my hand on my 9, and keep my mind on my riches
[03:29.818]It's a everyday struggle, everyday hustle
[03:33.087]Tryin to make bank
[03:35.325]I went to jail for a couple of months
[03:36.557]And I had some time to think
[03:37.708]See I really can't take it
[03:39.575]Everybody changed up at the last minute to go to heaven
[03:41.881]They ain't gon make it
[03:44.458]The government ain't got no love for none of us
[03:46.041]God, you gotta understand, just think if you was one of us
[03:48.072]I be forever ballin in my sleep
[03:51.021]Be countin, thinkin, of ways to get out, it's just too deep
[03:53.164]I seen so many things and wonder, "Why me?"
[03:56.860]I pray to God let my mom die before I
[03:59.504]She pray to God, "Don't let my son die before me"
[04:01.480]And I wonder, if it's low
[04:03.586]They say heaven is a million miles away
[04:05.248]But to Silkk it seem so close
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[04:08.574]Heaven is so close when you born and die and live in the ghetto
[04:09.383]Heaven is so close when you born and die and live in the ghetto
[04:14.848](yeah, you know what I'm sayin?)
[04:19.860]This goes out to all my dead homies out there
[04:22.000](I know how it is up there, you know what I'm sayin?)
[04:22.899]You see what I'm sayin? (no red or blue, no black or white
[04:24.346]We all the same up there, fool) Sometimes they point the finger
[04:27.132]At us ghetto people (you know this go out to all my little dead
[04:30.543]Homies out there) Mr. Serv-On, Master P, Silkk the Shocker
[04:32.728](P brother, Kevin Miller, slugged up) It ain't changed
[04:34.271](You know lil Reg, Joshua Carter) Everybody need life insurance
[04:36.084](Howard little brother, you know what I'm sayin? mistakes happen)
[04:38.672]You never know when it's gon be yo time to go
[04:41.870](you know what I'm sayin, n***a, we with you)
[04:42.740]Cause if you live in the ghetto
[04:43.958](And my cousin Randall, n***a, I'm gon always see you n***a)
[04:44.452]It's like you one step away from heaven
[04:46.781](whether I'm dead or alive, my homie D. Fuller, n***a
[04:47.285]My homie Mouse, you know what I'm sayin, no matter how you went fool
[04:51.233]You still got love from me,it's gon be like to everybody
[04:54.860]That done lost somebody, whether it's your mother, your uncle
[04:57.870]Your sister, your brother, your child, it doesn't matter
[05:00.446]You know what I'm sayin, they all up there, it's gon be one big party
[05:03.536]With tangaray and hennesy and pineapple juice, they even get up like
[05:07.517]That up there, you know, so y'all take it easy out there
[05:10.949]For No Limit, T-R-U, fool, Heaven, Heaven)
[05:13.416]Chorus to fade
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