Jay-Z - Regrets Live @ Reasonable Doubt Anniversary

(PART 2) I strive to stay alive, keeping pride above price to slice apart my fate
The last instance I cried was ice to the gutter folk
Bless you all, we'll join forces between courses when there's time to smoke
Maybe death is just a joke we all fell for
Please tell more, I fell raw through the fire, I admire unbreakable nerve
More than a soulful declaration for a nation with debatable verve
This companion from the homeless canyon is more than I deserve

(PART 3) Letting me know about the road's next curve
This is our turf, but without a roof
Where we exchange dreams for a sore tooth
Takin lives to gain lives, that's raw truth
And with proof I extend my end
Like credits without considered edits, just let it follow trend
Like everyone allows bows before the curtain calls, false and on the mend
Rehab is too cheap even for deep doses of failure
And as my skin turns paler, I scale a new climb over the trailer

(PART 4) Maybe food is found underground, with rags to brag about to tailors
Many sailors go to war, but trust they bust nuts for fuck all
No matter how much you grow you still feel small
Watching strangers brave commercial dangers outside the mall
And as the wallets fall, I call it all tall talk
Witness the fitness of fake minds as I take time to find some chalk
My outline will embellish the hellish fetishes we all stalk
You wont care as my corpse warps time, but thru crime we still walk