[Verse 1 - Coolio]
Get your back, call tomorrow, life is borrowed
all your tears in sorrow and bring it back and that's a fact
where would you be at, make sure you're pushin' harder to it
the game was changed when the bullshit was brought here
our sets are fallin' now they live in love
we got five bucks or four reproduction of the clothing and gloves
you rather see me in a cell, than see me make my mail
and when the story he tell, he trying to make you fail
trying to make some money lope but money makes no man
if you have no pen than you have no money in your hand
we're so dope, dive and steal, anything but payed for real
damn you folks, if you wouldn't choked when you forgot to keep it real
cops came back, rubbers in the back
what you snap when you couldn't lack
now you feel the pressure when you didn't count your blessings
now we're gone, you are alone
told your mama that you was grown
one to the neck and three to the chest
when you ran for your life all alone
now you're gone, now would your homies die for you, fool

[Chorus - Coolio]
I don't wanna die right, he doesn't wanna die right
no nobody wanna die but somebody's gotta die tonight
she doesn't wanna die right, they don't wanna die right
no nobody wanna die but somebody's gotta die tonight

[Verse 2 - Krayzie Bone]
In my black khakis and my black boots
Nigga we sued them 'till we threw the mud
We hold the coffin, and it's possible we have to run muthafucka
Caught up in the dust, caught up in a terrible tradegy
With every nigga that fall, unless he's tall
Cause this is reality mixed with insanity
Families torn apart, but unless they look through they livin as hard
Stand there and askin' where is God?, cause you try to blame this on the Lord
All the rest has been said, we just alone 'cause my nigga is dead
Before they're beginning to take him under
I look at his heart-broken mother and I gotta wonder
When would it be me
Everyone gatherin' comin' to see
The remains in flames what I used to be, this is no more R.I.P
You never know when they're coming to get ya
But have them bullets ready for protection
Take them bodies who has fallen as a collection
But when they attack, you gotta go, we're under control
We hustle the streets, ain't no war
We hope many men will recover in smoke
They'll suffer but will never die cause we soldiers, and we are the casualties of war, we are the casualties of war, we are the casualties of war
[Chorus - Coolio]
I don't wanna die right, he doesn't wanna die right
no nobody wanna die but somebody's gotta die tonight
she doesn't wanna die right, they don't wanna die right
no nobody wanna die but somebody's gotta die tonight
[Verse 3 - Coolio]
I saw them coming from a mile away
I couldn't stay I had to make my getaway, I lived to find another day
that's how it goes when this game we play
everybody on board got a price to pay
you better pay attention to what I say, go to Hell if you don't pray
these streets are hard, walkin' down the Boulevard
like walkin through a prison yard
you never know when the bullets fly off
the pressure is on your money, boy beginning to fall
and your name gotta be stong to make them fools run from court
oh man your in jail but you cant call your crew
'cause those niggas dont used to be a crew, now they're after you, ooo
people seen that you used to be a teen
but you ran against the Benz, niggas on the scene
I guess they sucked out your brain , cut you in your jeans
lucky you're not what they hate but they beat up what they see
don't you ever go 'round and scream it seperates the boys from men
cought your closest on your seat
and that's my dearest fairest friend
[Chorus x2 - Coolio]
I don't wanna die right, he doesn't wanna die right
no nobody wanna die but somebody's gotta die tonight
she doesn't wanna die right, they don't wanna die right
no nobody wanna die but somebody's gotta die tonight
(We are the casulties of war
we are the casulties of war
we are the casulties of war)
[Repeat until fade - Krayzie Bone]
We are the casulties of war


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Thanks to (anonymous) for correcting these lyrics. Nov 13, 2008