Cold Places

To all my people goin through it on a daily basis
And it seem like the world is full of cold places
Keep yo' head up, [bad word] what they said cause
you can do it and the man will get you through it
I believe that, homey I believe that
If I can picture that, I'll bring a picture back

[Ice Cube]
They say "Gangster, gangster! Tell me how you do it
How you get through it and them other niggaz blew it"
I keep my eye on the prize then pursue it
Chase it like a cheetah chuck it out and subdue it
So self-educate, [bad word] don't hate
Cause the game I got, is Madden oh-eight [bad word] with Cube, I'm better than YouTube [bad word] with them dudes them niggaz is new school
The game don't change just the players
The rhymes don't change just the [bad word] rhymesayers
(Hahahaha!) They make it up as they go along
But I'm goin on 25 years strong
The [bad word] I say might get you through the day
Or change your whole life, in a major way
The [bad word] they say, might catch you a case
The [bad word] I say, feel like your birthday

[Chorus]

[Ice Cube]
You know what? Momma said it'd be days like this
Straight hell on earth, but come up out the abyss
She said "Don't let 'em see you crawl, don't let 'em see you fall
All they wanna do is laugh when you tear your drawers"
It's a cold world [bad word] bring a bomber jacket
If it's another hustle out there I'ma crack it [bad word] the new dance I'ma learn how to eat
Get my mind right, stay up out these [bad word] streets
They keep callin me
They keep callin, all the lil' homies keep fallin
In them same traps niggaz cain't figure out
In the fast lane boy but the bridge is out
Make my blood boil, get yo' life spoiled
Get you in the system, get you in the soil
And your funeral was sponsored by Unocal
Saw you UVN, [bad word] digital

[Chorus]

[Ice Cube]
I know, it's [bad word] up how they do us
Pretend they really care, but then they Jerry Lewis
Take that money that was allocated to us
Put us in some [bad word] up trailers then sue us
Watchin Katrina, is worser than Ike & Tina
See New Orleans get [bad word] by FEMA
Louisiana got racist [bad word] politics
Free the Jena Six  [bad word] FREE THE JENA SIX~!)
Your honor, Osama, Obama
Even, yo' momma, ain't [bad word] with my comments
They want us to quit, forget
And not give a [bad word] about these sick [bad word] politics
lunatic is in the White House
Make me wanna go do a lick right now
But they'll make a [bad word] bow down
in the penitentiary, a billion dollar industry

[Chorus]

[Ice Cube]
I believe that, homey I believe that
If I can picture that, I'll bring a picture back