Intro -

Yeah;
Ballad of a dead soulja;
This is the ballad of a dead soulja;
This is ballad of a dead soulja;
The ballad of a dead soulja;

1st verse -

The plan;
To take a man of the whole family;
Though underhanded;
To be the man it was planned;
All my roaddogz;
Official mob figgaz love to act up;
The first to bomb when we rob niggaz - i can be;
Lost in my own mind;
To be the boss only thought's grippin chrome nines;
Niggaz get tossed up;
War scars, battlefield memories;
Swore i saw the devil in my empty glass of hennessey;
Talkin to a nigga on a tight leash;
Screamin fuck tha police;
As i ride through the night streets;
Little child runnin wild;
Towards danger;
What's the cause;
Don't be alarmed;
Death to all strangers;
Maybe i'm a madman;
A pistol grabbin nigga - unleash the sandman;
Promise a merciless retaliation;
Nothin' is colder;
Close your eyes - hear the ballad of a dead soulja;

Hook 1 -

(singing)
Thug 4 life i will be;
(2pac)
This is the ballad of a dead soulja;
(singing)
A life of crime i will lead;
(2pac)
Close your eyes and hear the ballad of a dead soulja;
(singing)
If you play the game, you play to win;
(2pac)
This is the ballad of a dead soulja;
(singing)
It's a crazy world full of sin;
(2pac)
Close your eyes;

2nd verse -

Completely lost;
Revenge at all cost;
Payback's a bitch - switch now the trick's crossed;
Tossed up and never to be heard of;
A single witness screamin' bloody murda - murda;
Blast - tell me homie whatcha see now;
A blind man and a dead body;
I'm ready to leave town;
And get my cash though;
Hook up with kastro;
Homie had to blast on the task force;
Stupid coppers tried to play us out;
Never that;
They took my money and my stash;
Time to get 'em back; (pac laughs)
Upon my secret arrival;
Two glock four-fives time for survival;
Death to my rivals;
Tell me what you want lord;
Nobody left after the death of a drug lord; (pac laughs)
The situation's critical;
Nothin' is colder;
Than hearin' the ballad of a dead soulja;

Hook 2 -

(singing)
Thug 4 life i will be;
(2pac)
This is the ballad of a dead soulja;
(singing)
A life of crime i will lead;
(2pac)
Close your eyes and hear the ballad of a dead soulja;
(singing)
If you play the game, you play to win;
(2pac)
This is a ballad of a dead soulja;
(singing)
It's a crazy world full of sin;
(2pac)
C-c-c-close your eyes and hear the ballad of a dead soulja;

3rd verse -

Big coward put your hands to the moon;
When my glocks rang out;
The niggaz came out - boom;
Who wanna see me in a challenge?;
So merciless i'm terrifyin' niggaz in my ballads;
Do you feel me?;
Coppo a copper time;
One day i'll be the don;
Until then remain strong;
My only fear of death is reincarnation;
Bustin' at my adversaries like a mental patient;
To all my niggaz facin' sixty years;
Sheddin' tattoo tears another suicide out on the tier;
Takin' private planes tryin' to survive the game;
For all my homies that'll never be alive again;
All they promise us is death nigga;
Take a breath - could be the last one left nigga;
It's real now;
Feel it and fantasize;
Ain't nothin' colder;
Listen you could hear it;
The ballad of a dead soulja;

Hook 3 -

(singing)
Thug 4 life i will be;
(2pac)
This is the ballad of a dead soulja;
(singing)
The life of crime i will lead;
(2pac)
C-c-c-close your eyes - hear the ballad of a dead soulja;
(singing)
If you play the game, you play to win;
(2pac)
This is the ballad of a dead soulja;
(singing)
It's a crazy world full of sin;
(2pac)
C-c-c-close your eyes and hear the ballad of a dead soulja;

Outro -
(2pac)
This go out to kato, mental;
All the niggaz that done passed away;
(this is the ballad of a dead soulja)
Mutulu;
Geronimo;
All the down ass ridahs;
All the niggaz that put it down;
All the souljas;
All the niggaz that go through that day-to-day struggle;
(this is the ballad of a dead soulja)
All the niggaz that passed on;
All the niggaz with ambition and money in they heart;
All the niggaz that want some and that don't take none; (pac laughs)
(this is the ballad of a dead soulja);
Police is so scared of us;
Oh the feds? they aware of us;
They wanna see us dead;
They got pictures of a nigga head;
(ballad of a dead soulja)
Tryin' to see me in chains;
Shit - them niggaz'll never breath again;
Before they put me in a cell they'll see me in hell;
(cause it's the ballad of a dead soulja)
Got my pistols cocked;
Run the whole muthafuckin' block;
Fuck the cops;
The police? we run these streets, nigga;
(they heard the ballad of a dead soulja)
These niggaz can't see me;
Half the world wanna be me;
Multi-millionaire - shit it ain't fair;
But nigga, you know
(it's the ballad of a dead soulja)
(it's the ballad of a dead soulja)