Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Boogie man, boogie man, boogie man
Boogie man (hello children)
My whole life is real
My life
My life
My life
My life
Ah ha, Brooklyn you know
My life
My life
My life
My life
It's a real thing
Listen
My whole life is real, morning news and nights is real
What I spit and I write is real, 'cause my life is real
My own life is ill
Filled with magic's strife to scale
Sun bright, no time to chill, got all type of bills
I got seeds I gotta feed with this
They be needing shit, I got ex-wife beef and shit
That's how deep it get
My whole life is real, my whole life is ill
A fantastic, a beautiful mess
And life nigga in America, the usual stress
I do it to the up, low, the east and the west, I
Do it to most, I do it to death
I do so it good they don't know what to do with they selves
Well do this, move
Back, forward, mo'
Life is real, let's move on
My whole life is real, morning news and nights is real
What I spit and I write is real, 'cause my life is ill
Filled with magic's strife to scale
Sun bright, no time to chill
Got all type of bills
I got seeds I gotta feed with this
I got streets I gotta reach with this
That's how deep it get
My whole life is ill, my whole life is real
Mornings, noon's, nights
Birthdays, workdays, holidays, funerals, the usual
Life is real
Sunday to Monday, schoolyard gun play, politics, bullshit
Life is real
Shootings, stabbing, free trade, arrest
Crush, kill, destroy, checks
Death, rebirth
Reach the world but touch the street first
Life going in every direction but rewind
Niggas is waiting for the light to dive down
On a park a hustler plays the hide out
Somebody's gotta notice it's a matter of time before the world fine out
The earth dry out and push the hinting to high ground, life style, hostile
Real, life real real
So real, too real, news real, edited
The close up block out the rest of it
True evident, false measurement
Crunk superstar, thug president
Tricks allegiance, m-def payment ship
Scribe lively, so timely, that is timeless
And is lovely, and is ugly, as it must be
My whole life is real, morning news and nights is real
What I spit and I write is real, 'cause my life is ill
Filled with magic's strife to scale
Sun bright, no time to chill
Got all type of bills
I got seeds I gotta feed with this
I got streets I gotta reach with this
That's how deep it get
My whole life is real, ha ha
Brooklyn know
My life
My life
My life
My life
B.X. know
My life
My life
My life
My life
Real niggas all over the world
My life
My life
My life
My life
It's a real thing
Boogie man
Boogie man (hello children)
My whole life is real
My life
My life
My life
My life
Ah ha, Brooklyn you know
My life
My life
My life
My life
It's a real thing
Listen
My whole life is real, morning news and nights is real
What I spit and I write is real, 'cause my life is real
My own life is ill
Filled with magic's strife to scale
Sun bright, no time to chill, got all type of bills
I got seeds I gotta feed with this
They be needing shit, I got ex-wife beef and shit
That's how deep it get
My whole life is real, my whole life is ill
A fantastic, a beautiful mess
And life nigga in America, the usual stress
I do it to the up, low, the east and the west, I
Do it to most, I do it to death
I do so it good they don't know what to do with they selves
Well do this, move
Back, forward, mo'
Life is real, let's move on
My whole life is real, morning news and nights is real
What I spit and I write is real, 'cause my life is ill
Filled with magic's strife to scale
Sun bright, no time to chill
Got all type of bills
I got seeds I gotta feed with this
I got streets I gotta reach with this
That's how deep it get
My whole life is ill, my whole life is real
Mornings, noon's, nights
Birthdays, workdays, holidays, funerals, the usual
Life is real
Sunday to Monday, schoolyard gun play, politics, bullshit
Life is real
Shootings, stabbing, free trade, arrest
Crush, kill, destroy, checks
Death, rebirth
Reach the world but touch the street first
Life going in every direction but rewind
Niggas is waiting for the light to dive down
On a park a hustler plays the hide out
Somebody's gotta notice it's a matter of time before the world fine out
The earth dry out and push the hinting to high ground, life style, hostile
Real, life real real
So real, too real, news real, edited
The close up block out the rest of it
True evident, false measurement
Crunk superstar, thug president
Tricks allegiance, m-def payment ship
Scribe lively, so timely, that is timeless
And is lovely, and is ugly, as it must be
My whole life is real, morning news and nights is real
What I spit and I write is real, 'cause my life is ill
Filled with magic's strife to scale
Sun bright, no time to chill
Got all type of bills
I got seeds I gotta feed with this
I got streets I gotta reach with this
That's how deep it get
My whole life is real, ha ha
Brooklyn know
My life
My life
My life
My life
B.X. know
My life
My life
My life
My life
Real niggas all over the world
My life
My life
My life
My life
It's a real thing
Boogie man
Lyrics submitted by ButNeverOutgunned
Life Is Real Lyrics as written by Mark Richardson Dante Smith
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Royalty Network
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