As I walk through the valley of shadow of death These streets, you gotta travel with techs A bottle of Hennessy just to goggle the stress Drink half the bottle then scatter the rest Pay respect to the spirits that be, souls that ascended The genesis and the ending From da darkest parts of the motherland, Afghans in Afghanistan, to all my militant Russians in Kremlin Blood on my sword, Cry Nation on da emblem I'm just nineteen, my destiny pending Uh, yea, uh The book of life, the book of life, the book of life Uh The book of life, the book of life, the book of life From dying of hunger, scrapping for provisions Pots on da stove but no food in da kitchen The devil whispers in your ear, what you’re gonna do bout these cruel conditions Bend a knee and live but you a fool if you listen More Pain, more tears More pride, more ego, equals to a blood bath for four years War in da streets, war with my fam At the age of eleven, I had to draft up a Schlieffen plan I'm from where my own mother called da cops and said my son thuggin’, could you come and kill this man Uh, yea, uh The book of life, the book of life, the book of life Uh The book of life, the book of life, the book of life One love, one life Everything changed in one night When the Serbians denied Ferdinand of a long life The assassination, after that the bombs strike Central powers on da rise Allied powers mobilized Bomb smoke in open skies Human life demoralized Careful of the air that you breathe, chemical warfare now normalized Unprecedented Good men been killing good men for centuries For a basis so senseless Hopeless Africa, still stuck in a maze Pick a side, it’s like choosing cancer or AIDS Everybody gotta die now It’s a bird, it’s a plane, bombs falling from the sky now It’s all about survival Even the egotistical and narcissist gotta put their pride down Propaganda running rampant in da media, the western world deceiving us With lies they’re misleading us A change is coming, can you feel the rush Disciples of change, believe in us The empire fell Oh well Relocate my people to the other side of hell Survived the worst conditions, no food to fill my tummy I'm still here cause God will it on me I'm from where my own mother called da cops and said my son thuggin’, could you come and kill him for me Uh, yea, uh The book of life, the book of life, the book of life Uh The book of life, the book of life, the book of life World war one, 1914 to 1918 The Central Powers versus the Allied Powers Who were the Central Powers Austro Hungarian, Germany, The Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria Who were The Allied Powers France, Russia, Romania, Italy, Japan, The Great Britain, The United States World war one helped to strengthen America’s economic status Empires fell, nations were created