Yeah, yeahLook, me and lil sandra bagging cds in the bubble wrapPeople recognize me from the tv but I’m done with thatPeople don’t wanna see me succeed, this s**t come with thatEven when I come backI don’t know if it’s gonna be me that’s gonna be coming backSoon as I left, I had to make peace with thatDropped out of school ’cause nobody was teaching thatThe best western is where a ni**a was sleeping atDaemen college booking me to pull up and speak the factsEven if they make a movie ’bout us, this s**t’ll be hard to re-enactDislocated shoulder, it’s hard to be always reaching backAll these iou’s, it’s hard for me to be keeping trackFriends that dedicated they life to just keepin’ me intactHard to pay 40, pay noel, pay niko backAll the nights I needed to vent to someone and cj satAll the nights chubbs was pulling up where I need him atAll the times mark was making sure that my luggage packedAt times he had to double back (oh-oh, oh-oh)I mean, even with his salary, you can’t put no prices on thatThere is no salary cap, there is no payin’ him back, for realI wonder what it could’ve been if I had snakes in the mixActually, I never wanna know ’cause we made it like thisShots gotta fly either way, now I make it or missOvertime, I was all good, we take it in shiftsWhat would you do if it wasn’t this? That’s a hard oneThe finish line is where I like to pull up and start fromPain is just a place that I go to get the bars from
Anxiety’s a drug that I use to get the job doneDelusional’s a space I like to think that I’m far fromMy son is the one thing I hate to be apart fromBet against me, don’t know where they getting their odds fromI know that when it’s done, I’m going wherever god’s fromBut I still don’t know where I get the calm fromWhere I get the calm from, yeah(oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-ooh)Yeah-yeah, yeah, yeah-yeahOh-oh, oh-oh, oh-ohWoah, woah-woah, woah, woah, woahYeah (woah, woah)YeahWoah, woah, woah-woahWoah, woahWoah, woah-woah, woahWoah, woah, ahSaid it’s hard when it starts to fade awaySaid it’s hard when it starts to fade awayYeah (ooh, yeah)Said it’s hard when it starts to fade awayHard when it starts to fade awayIt’s hard when the memories start to fade awaySaid its hard when the memories start to fade awayYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah(ooh, ooh) so beautifulYeah, yeah, yeah