[ Featuring Poet22 ]
Told my mama I ain't tripping if this rap shit never make it
Long as I could do it for my brother I'm the greatest (yeah)
Sleeping on sofas
Eviction notice they showed us
I had to get out my city before it take me down with it
I got a "P" on my fitted
I put the love on my arm
I might love you but keep my distance you doing me harm
Im just protecting my energy
Got some people that envy me
Got some people that care, others turn to an enemy
Anger management tendencies try to hold it all in
Ima pop off eventually
Ima get what was meant for me
I said f*ck what they thinking
I ride around in a Lincoln
We blow the top off the weekend
Im the one from my city they listen when I be speaking
I used to sleep in a car
Shit that made me a star
I used to sleep on the floor
Hope you locking the doors
Hope you keeping the score
I was waking up sore, but now I'm waking ashore
I took a trip out the country first time, it blew my mind
Realized there's more to life than living blind
Stuck in a bubble right off of E.14
Please don't do that shit subtle if you gon support me
Lot of people politic
I just wanna polish up
I don't play no kind of shit
I just lift my Paula up
Trying to get my dollars up
Trying to save the world
Ironic how that shit got me trapped in a swirl
Feeling like I'm doomed either way, that's the truth
Even if I find heaven then I'm back in the booth
Back where they shoot
Back where they pop you for some shoes
Let alone you got a coupe you gon end up on the news
Got me singing blues
Lyrics that they read got me caught up in the feud
Got me caught up in my tomb (yeah)
Either way I'm doomed (yeah)
Tell 'em all when I'm up
I ain't never coming down
Yeah I done been through the struggle
But that ain't where I'm headed now
Swear I was so close
To crumbling down
But I know that either way it goes
One day I'm gonna shine all on my own
All on my own
(Gotta shine shine, shine shine)
All on my own
(Gotta shine shine, shine shine)
All on my own
(Gotta shine shine, shine shine)
All on my own
(Gotta shine shine, shine shine)
Nobody ever make it out my city and life be going in cycles
Get caught up inside the circle your mama living just like you
Your brother living just like you, your son is living just like you
Felt like I was breaking it, then i felt I'm mistaking it
If i stay any longer
I might end up on the corner
Or maybe with the coroner
Read the Qur'an and I pour one up
Only thing I know to question everything I know
I want you give me my flowers before you see me go
I want to water my soil so you could see me grow
Getting high everyday you never see me low
Its just a natural way to compensate
Sometimes I'm way too on edge to sit and conversate
Sometimes I need me a break
Say I don't feel the weight
But any second I could break
Don't know what it take
I even fainted
From stressing and overworking
So paranoid that I kant get what I'm deserving
Is you really down when its time to pull the curtain?
Is you still around when I'm broke or when I'm hurting?
People looking at me like an artist not a person
I'm jus trying to make it out alive
Tell 'em all when I'm up
I ain't never coming down
Yeah I done been through the struggle
But that ain't where I'm headed now
Swear I was so close
To crumbling down
But I know that either way it goes
One day I'm gonna shine all on my own
All on my own
(Gotta shine shine, shine shine)
All on my own
(Gotta shine shine, shine shine)
All on my own
(Gotta shine shine, shine shine)
All on my own
(Gotta shine shine, shine shine)
