Why is that?Why is that?(Tell me why)

I wasn't sleepin' I was creepin' slidin', hidin'

I would like the girl behind me roll up a bad time thinkin'

Mentally sinkin' 'specially brinkin'

Two decades and a half making a path for mine to follow

The world is hollow, yet it's full of crap, prepared to gamble

I give you half of chiseled pencil

What's the come up, cried a ton of tears, drunk a ton of beers

That's fun at first but learned in person fear throughout the years

Kept my ears open, eyes scoping, mouth locked

Don't rock the boat if you can't swim

Nobody may not be there with the limb to limb

This is the end, still I can't explain the fact

Why the **** shit gotta be like that?

Baby, tell me why it's gotta be like that

Know what, I said it

Hear me clearin' over so severe and dreaded

That they need to be beheaded, why?

I'm readily, steadily stimulate and then mutilate

And all sloppily, copied imitations

Cause they irritatin' so I'm intimidatin' them

Over the snare with simply a stare

Bringin' them turbulent terror

And they know this 'cause they can feel it

He knew that it was mine

Still the sucker tried to steal it

So I had to reveal it, through provin'

That I am a star machine and fly

And by just blinkin' my eye in a flash

I flush out the face, layin' low-key

Trained eyes locate to focus on the phony

Mister sometime-homey, why he act like that

I thought he had my back, I thought he had our backs

But it was him who I should've never trusted

And not at least till he got his attitude adjusted

Or mouth busted for acting all dusted

But bust this now when I'm out

I seek and thought out the whole scene

For all sinister's types, sneak that scheme

They come into my face

I send them tigh**en home

When they're sufferin'

From the double agent syndrome, why?

Why it gotta be like that

Baby, tell me why it's gotta be like that

Sometimes this world means everything to me

The inside is lovely to these eyes I see

And sometimes in my mind all I wanna do is cry

Holly off, seven of them drops from my eye

Thugs drain out my skin 'cause I'm pissed from within

I see a situation now and all I do is grin

People think I'm high but I'm mentally travelin'

Agin' in short times 'cause life's a unravelin'

While I'm straddlin' more's up this f****n' mike

I hate to be a pilot, cras*in' in a flight

People need to know about this thing called life

'Cause if you see the light then life's alright

So can you dig it

Be like that you just be like that

Baby, tell me why it's gotta be like that

Be like that you just be like that

Baby, tell me why it's gotta be like that

I jumped inside the jeep as I embark on my darkness

Popped in my freestyle tapes

Started reminiscing about my little homie

Who was raised in Wyoming wanted to be famous

So he came to Californey on the microphony

Was super bad and what not

But he was the kinda fella to follow paths that was hot

He became too fascinated with that gang related flavor

That he modificated rearranged his behavior

He hooked up quick with the influential slang

Gangsta-strow corn rolls the whole shabbang

Braggin' and boastin', boastin' and braggin'

How we 'posed to be hangin' with Baby Gees, I was baggin'

But what you tryin' hooride up on the bandwagon

Hopin' they'd hit him in the head but he steady saggin'

Like he a hog creepin' through the smog

Smokin' on some Indo sippin' on a cup of O-Dog

Like most who come to this West Coast society

Tried to be because they think it's fly to be a menace

So what a relic way to end this, got rolled up

When he was strolling on a Sunday after tennis

Niggas never listen, they gotta learn their lesson

The hard way I'm guessin', guessin'

BD as I hit the B and make a right on Weston

Pops in my head the proverbial question, why?

Be like that, you just be like that

Baby, tell me why it's gotta be like that

Tell me why

(Baby, tell me why it's gotta be like that)