Whatever goes up, it must come down, down, down, down (X2) I've been up and I've been down and I ain't sleepin' on em' I keep on creepin' on em', creepin' on em', creepin on em' Oh my bone never divide Baby this is my third time, turn while, the world marched Struggle to come up, that's when the family huddles We live in ghetto's, to make it out the family hustle My dear beloved, as if you ever love it We gon' now discover Still have the Lord above it Bone Bone, we growin' old The way we live it but we zone, zone, we gon' move on I'll be there ready, people always out to getchu The way your father out to getchu The haters always out to diss you So you went to deal with issues Ain't no helpin hand'll get you Dead friends, so many tissues, you know I'll miss you And I'll stay up with you And problems they keep touching you, wassup with you We've been so high around the world There and back again We've seen some messed up things fo sho Yeah, We've lost some friends You think you know us but you don't Cause Whatever goes up, it must come down, down, down, down (X3) I remember my daddy told me "Say boy, you need to get up and go get you some" So I went out and got me some And when I got it, make sure that I got a lot of it Cause life you can only live it once So you need to get it done Before you know it, they don't know you no more They never knew ya, you feel just like they treat you like a stranger Act like they true 'til they can't use you no more That's how they do ya Sometimes it really sucks to be famous I guess everybody gotta take they fall from grace So just know, that one day, we all fade away I knew rappers used to be active but they gone today It's the coldest thang Nobody loves you when you find out when it's over that you really have more foes than friends It's a cut throat game, It's a cut throat game Any second you could be thrown away, blown away We've been so high around the world There and back again We've seen some messed up things fo sho Yeah, We've lost some friends You think you know us but you don't Cause Whatever goes up, it must come down, down, down, down (X3) No we never gonna ever waste no opportunity Cause as long as we still standing we'll be family (X2) We've been so high around the world There and back again We've seen some messed up things fo sho Yeah, We've lost some friends You think you know us but you don't Because Whatever goes up, it must come down, down, down, down (X5)