[Mia X & Mo B. Dick]
  Ooh, ooh, ooh, hey yeah, ahh no
  So much yeah, ooh
  
  [Mia X singing]
  There's so much trouble in my life
  Sometimes it gets so bad I just breakdown and cry
  I got my rent to pay and it's overdue
  Don't wanna sale my body just to make it through
  You see I can't depend upon no man
  To be responsible or even understand
  It's just the way it is at this point and time
  Sometimes it gets so scared unless it blows my mind
  Me and my homegirls, we got a plan
  Every night at seven we'll take things in our own hands
  Now we can play around, let's make some ends
  I got my hustle on cause money's my best friend
  
  [Mia X rapping; Verse 1]
  I wanna be stress free, rest easy at night
  But there's so much drama goin' on in my life
  These days, nights missed get you labeled naive
  And commons get taking for stupidity
  So I keep my guard up in this macho world
  Cause everybody's running game on mama's little girl
  We getting babies from shady, wanna-be playas
  Who wanna lay us, stick ya, hit ya, forget ya while we stay up
  Crying till our eyes are swollen
  Single mothers got the weight of the world on they shoulders
  Want em' to hold us and tell us it's gon' be alright
  Even the hardest sister needs a good man in her life
  I paid the price and my life is still in a damper
  After times of dirty dancing, get the babies pampers
  And don't talk about the welfare and how they knock us
  Knowing that chunp change can't provide nothing proper
  While the doctors give us new-age birth control
  They make the swollen to skinny
  Bleeding constantly or missing monthly, scrapping pennies
  While my kid's daddy slinging those Z's
  But ain't doing shit for neither one of these
  Should I ease up, grab a case, and set it off like Jada
  Break with the paper, get in a comfort zone from pullin' capers
  Makes us wanna holler, scream, and shout and say
  Oh father, why I got live this way
  
  [Chorus: Mo B. Dick & (Mia X)]
  I don't know why I live this way (I don't know why I live this way)
  I don't know why I live this way (Ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah, yeah)
  I don't know why I live this way (I don't know why I live this way)
  I don't know why I live this way (Don't know why, I live this way)
  
  [Verse 2]
  All my sisters keep ya head up, we ain't giving up without a fight
  There's been a struggle but pretty soon we gonna bubble
  Though trouble be knocking on my door like every 24-7
  Heaven knows that I like to keep the bills in check and
  Letting my kids down on they birthday
  Gnaws at my heart and tears me apart
  Can't let it go like this
  Racing through the malls at Christmas time, Babylon
  Got my mind on trip, December 25th ain't gotta bit
  To do with Christ or his birth
  Greedy devils give us pagan, holler
  And profit off us give praise for better days
  Better be ahead of what I said
  Third, I can see I can destroy the mental chains on our enslaved brains
  Cocaine, be the aim, be the means of profit
  But logically it tells me I'm going to jail and getting killed
  Oh well, I gotta do what I gotta
  Until a new day when I don't have to ask why I live this way
  
  [Chorus] to fade