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Artist/Band: Akon
Lyrics for Song: Stay Down
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Akon



Akon]

How many days we gonna live our life struggling on the streets

How many days we gotta live our life searching for a way to eat

You gotta stay down stay down just to see a brighter day

Stay down stay down just to live a better way

Stay down stay down just to live a brighter day

Stay down stay down just to live a better way



[Flashy Verse 1]

How many blacks gotta die by the hands of another

Don't you understand that man's the same color so that man is your brother

That's what happens when that man is from the gutter

And that man is a hustler trying to survive, moving grams of that butter

See, his momma was a dope fiend, poppa was a rolling stone

he never knew what family was he grew up in a broken home

Ever since twelve years old he was known as grown

'cause ever since twelve years old he was on his own

And even though it seemed like school was the best plan

his only choice was distributing the rock like Def-jam

While everybody else was getting diplomas

he graduated from the middle of the strip to the corner

But I don't knock him cause he tryin to bubble

there's no food on the table, the rents past due and that's why he hustles

and I ain't sayin that its right to be dealin

All I'm sayin is I feel him I guess

I just see eye 2 eye wit his struggle you know



[Akon]

How many days we gonna live our life struggling on the streets

How many days we gotta live our life searching for a way to eat

You gotta stay down stay down just to see a brighter day

Stay down stay down just to live a better way

Stay down stay down just to live a brighter day

Stay down stay down just to live a better way



[Flashy Verse 2]

Now baby girl's got a promising future

But her moms passed away while she was younger and her father's a loser

He'd always abused her but what else you expect from a coward

He wasn't even proud when she got accepted to Howard

And even though she loves college everyday it would stress her

but it wasn't cause of exams or she hate her professor

it was her financial situation here she couldn't pay a semester

And the only means of making it better was totally reversing the role

lap dancing working that pole even though deep down its hurting her soul

And even if it meant taking off her clothes

she was down for what ever to help her accomplish her personal goals

And I ain't trippin off a-how shortie livin

She gotta pay her tuiton put food in the kitchen and that's why she strippin

and I ain't sayin I agree with her job but shit times is hard

I guess I just see eye to eye with her vision you know



[Akon]

How many days we gonna live our life struggling on the streets

How many days we gotta live our life searching for a way to eat

You gotta stay down stay down just to see a brighter day

Stay down stay down just to live a better way

Stay down stay down just to live a brighter day

Stay down stay down just to live a better way



[Flashy Verse 3]

Now see the moral of the story is this

if you ain't tryin to help stop our troubles then don't knock our hustle

cause really at the end of the day its not ya'll struggle

but you always got something to say

well hear this fuck you

Yeah that's right I'm talking to you come try to sleep in our beds

eat off our plates, take a walk in our shoes

look at the world from our view try to live by our rules

drink the same water we do, put your kids in our schools

I guarantee you won't maintain your health you'll probably try to end it all

and hang yourself or bang yourself

You couldn't possibly understand all pain we felt

and without folding your hands play the games we dealt

I'm being real I ain't tryin to be evil

Look how we live, look how ya'll live

c'mon be serious how is we equal

Matter fact I feel I'm wasting my time

I'm finished writing this rhyme

Ya'll never gonna see eye to eye with my people you know



[Akon]

How many days we gonna live our life struggling on the streets

How many days we gotta live our life searching for a way to eat

You gotta stay down stay down just to see a brighter day

Stay down stay down just to live a better way

Stay down stay down just to live a brighter day

Stay down stay down just to live a better way (Repeat 2X)


Album Lyrics: Other Songs - Akon


Akon
"Other Songs - Akon"


1. i Love It
3. [untitled Track]
4. 9 mm (Speaker)
5. Acquitted
6. Ain't No Sunshine
8. All My Life
9. America's Most Wanted
10. Angel
11. Arab Money (Remix)
12. Bad As Hell
13. Bananza (Belly Dancer)
14. Be Me
15. Beautiful
16. Bend That Ass Ova
17. Bigger
18. Blood Into Gold
19. Body Bounce
20. Boomerang
21. Bring It On
22. Burn That Bridge
24. By My Side
26. Can You Believe It?
28. Celebrity
29. Certified
30. Chamak Challo
31. Chammak Chulo
32. Champion
33. Chasin' You
34. Clack Clack
35. Clak Clak
36. Cocaine Cowboy
37. Come Back To Me
38. Come Home With Me
39. Conspiracy
40. Could You Be The Reason
41. Cry out of Joy [ Michael Jackson Tribute]
42. Day Dreamin'
43. Ditch Ya Boyfriend
44. Dj
45. Don't Matter (Official Remix)
46. Don't Matter [Remix]
47. Dream Girl
48. Dreamer
50. Drop Down Low
51. Echo
52. El Product
53. Everywhere You Go
54. Fallin In Love
56. Frozen
57. Get Buck
58. Get Buck In Here
59. Get By
60. Get Low Wit It
61. Get This Party Started
62. Ghetto (Remix)
63. Ghetto [International Remix]
64. Ghetto Gospel (Dj One Remixx)
65. Ghetto Soldier (Go To War)
66. Girls
67. Give It To 'em
68. Go Go Dancer
69. Go To War
70. Gun In My Hand
71. Gun Short
72. Her Shoes
75. Hurt Somebody
76. I Promise
78. I Try So Hard
79. I Wanna Love You (Clean)
80. I Wanna Punch You
81. I Won't
82. I'm Leaving
83. I'm Losing It
84. I'm Sorry
85. Island
86. It's True
89. Just A Man
93. Let's Get Crazy
94. Life Of A Superstar
96. Locked Up Remix
97. Long Gone
98. Look At Me Ft Obie Trice (Remix)
99. Look At Me Now
100. Look Me In My Eyes
101. Louder
102. Love Handles
103. Magnetic
105. Me, Myself & I
106. Miodiog
107. Mp3 U & Me
109. My Block Sold Up
110. My Dog
111. Na Na
112. Natural Born Hustla
113. Never Forget Me
114. New York City
115. No Labels
116. No More You
117. Nobody Wanna See Us Together
118. Nosey Neighbour
119. Nosy Neighbour (taking It Off)
120. Not Safe
121. Oh Africa
122. Once Radio
123. One
124. One More Time
125. Party Animal
126. Problem Solver
127. Put The Blame On Me
127. Rely On
127. Rock
127. Saddest Day
127. Say Goodbye To Yesterday
127. Serious
127. Shawty Got Me Excited
127. She's So Fine
127. Shine Like A Star
127. Slow Wind
127. Smack That (Remix)
127. So Fly
127. So High
127. So Special
127. Some One
127. Soul Survivor
127. Soul Survivor (Remix)
127. Stay Down
127. Stay Down Ft. Tupac (remix)
127. Street Rider
127. Take A Chance
127. Take It Down Low
127. Takin It Off (She's Gettin Naked)
127. Takin' It Off
127. Teaser
127. That's Me
127. That's Righ
127. The Reason
127. The Take Over, The Break's Over
127. The Way She Moves
127. Throw Dat D
127. Time Is Money
127. Time Or Money
127. Tonight
127. Top Chef
127. Unless We Fuckin
127. Until U Come Back
127. Up & Down
127. Wake It Up
127. Wake Up Call
127. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2008
127. Wanna Rock
127. Wanna Start Something
127. What Can I Say
127. What You Got
127. What'cha Gone Do
127. Where Would We Go
127. Who The Fuck Is That
127. Work It
127. Yalli Naseeni
127. Yalli Nassini
127. You Are So Beautiful
127. You Don't Want It