[T.I. - Talking]
   Ay I'm working here, know what I'm saying
   Try to put yourself in my shoes for a second
   Its not personal I'm just sayin though
  
   [Verse 1]
   Ay look
   From when the moon came out 'till the sun came up
   I was supplyin the days when where they flame up
   Our mamas passing, by trying to explain us
   Pissing in the bushes like they never house trained us
   But, try to understand thats how we came up
   You get to know us, you'll love us but you can't change us (naw)
   Really we rather be rich and famous
   But in the mean time were forced to slang dust
   'Dro or crack cocaine, Penicillin to Rogaine
   Ecstacy, Viagra, whatever'll get the dough mayne
   Im tired of people mis-representing my dough mayne
   Oh you think we out here killing for nothing, hustling
   for no gain (picture that)
  
   [Hook] (sample playing in the background)
   Hey man I'm just doing my job
   Hey lady, don't mind me I'm just doing my job
   I don't wanna make your life more harder, I'm just doin my job
   You live here, I work here I'm doing my job
  
   [Verse 2]
   I don't know if you don't know, don't care or can't see
   Every time something up in the hood, it ain't me
   And I ain't always up to no good and know the crease
   And we ain't always gotta pass through the hood without speaking (how you doing)
   We ain't out here threatining your lives, raping your children
   We just out here staying alive, making a million (you know)
   Working hard, trying to survive chasing a mill-ion
   You hear us talking loud, just think of this is chamelion
   React to the situations, but accusations is still
   ??? and rise in your house, I mean you just hurting my feelings (maaan)
   We got lives, we wanna live nice too
   We got moms, dads, wise kids just like you
   But I ??? a few, its hell in high school
   When your helping with the rent lights and the gas bill too
   So before you go judging us loving us won't hurt
   Yeah under 25, staying alive is hard work
  
   [Hook]
  
   [Verse 3]
   And for you to see what I'm saying, open eyes will help
   If you could think about somebody besides yourself
   Why you pointing fingers at me, analyze yourself
   Quit all that chastising and try to provide some help
   Instead of calling the law, you busting my balls
   With all due respect, we don't even need to be fucking with y'all (maan)
   And we can't help it cause it is like this
   We don't like it no more than you that we live like this
   Hallway, stuck in the grass summertime to wintertime
   Cutting school to sell fifty dimes by dinner time
   See everything we know we learned from the streets
   Since thirteen I've been hustling and earning my keep
  
   [Hook]