I know this life hard
I know this life hard
I know the good times don't last, I know the light gets dark
If we never meet again, will you turn your pride off?

Keep me alive, dog, you keep me alive, dog?
Keep me alive, dog, will you keep me alive, dog?
Keep me alive, dog, keep me alive, dog
Will you keep me alive, dog?

I know we wasn't cool, that day you got the news
I know we wasn't seein' eye to eye
but that's just what brothers do
Will you tell the world I was your guy or just another dude?
You know the world wanna take me out, dog, all I got is you
You know the world wanna take mе out
and all I got is your word
You know I never really wantеd to go
I was tryna kill a nigga first
Just in case I never told you, my dog
I gotta put it in a verse
Take care of my son and my daughter
the day they see me in a hearse
Just make sure you

Keep me alive, dog, keep me alive, dog
Keep me alive, dog, keep me alive, dog
Keep me alive, dog, keep me alive, dog
Keep me alive, dog, keep me alive, dog
Yeah-yeah

Lookin' down all that I see is a bunch of people that forgot
Silly me, I shoulda known everybody
in the gang would move on
All I want is somebody to tell the world every time I won
All I want is somebody to give a gift to my son
The truth is, man, I know nobody cares after you're gone
The truth is I know nobody care after you're gone
At the surface, make sure they sing my song
This for all my niggas, make sure my name live on

Just keep me alive, dog, keep me alive, dog
Will you keep me alive, dog?
Keep me alive, dog, keep me alive, dog
Just keep me alive, dog, keep me alive, dog
Just keep me alive, dog
Just keep me alive, dog, keep me alive, dog

A man of God is a servant of God in our midst
Make no mistake about it
God is working in and through this man
You say, "Prove it"
Well, what man do you know that is more hated?
Who do you know that has been more mocked
ridiculed, hated, lied on, beaten up in the press?
Yet, he perseveres, yet, he takes it all
He blesses those that curse him, huh?
I don't know of another man that resembles
the man that I read of in the Bible more