Rollin' in hella deep, headed to the mezzanine
Dressed in all pink 'cept my gator shoes, those are green
Draped in a leopard mink, girl standin' next to me
Probably should've washed this, smells like R. Kelly sheets
Money, stay on my craft and stick around for those pounds
But I do that to pass the torch and put on for my town
Trust me on my I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T shit, hustlin'
Chasing dreams since I was fourteen
She told me she like how I'm dressin' and I ain't eatin' no salad
Stevie Wonder can see that I'm havin'
I ain't tryna play no games, my love
I'm one of a kind, couldn't fake, my love
Earthquake, make somethin' shake, my love
Most of them can't even relate, my love
A room within a room
A door behind a door
Touch, where do you lead?
I need something more
I didn't want to be the one to forget
I thought of everything I'd never regret
A little time with you is all that I get
Like the legend of the phoenix
All ends with beginnings
What keeps the planet spinning
The force from the beginning
Yeah, second year, six-time Grammy-nominated
Came through turnt up, everybody hated
Before I had my first M, it was Billion Dollar Baby
He bet the house and his self like Las Vegas
I said my face bomb, ass tight
Racks stack up Shaq height
Jewelry on me, flashlight
I been lit since last night
For what's money without happiness?
Or hard times without the people you love?
Though I'm not sure what's 'bout to happen next
I ask for strength from the Lord up above
It's beauty in the struggle, ugliness in the success
Hear my words or listen to my signal of distress
I've spent all of the love I saved
We were always a losing game
Small-town boy in a big arcade
I got addicted to a losing game
All I know, all I know
Loving you is a losing game
Most hearts never stay
But your love keeps me safe
People come and people go
But you and I, we're beautiful
So let the whole world change
We'll stay the same
Heartbeat's fast, I know there's no way back
We talk until we're speechless
'Cause we're left without a reason to stay
And keep hurting each other this way
All of our memories ahead
So many good times left
But what can I hold on to
If I haven't met you yet?
Out of sticks and stones we made a bed
And filled it up with broken hopes and words unsaid
Feels like we're stuck somewhere in between
While we say what we mean
Now tell her what's changed between good and goodbye
Why you tryin' everything to walk out of her life?
If you leave now, don't leave her with the blame
You know she's gonna take it anyway
Tell her what's changed
I hope that we can look back someday
And talk about all the things we couldn't say
When my world’s on fire
You kill the flames
I love how you're always
The beauty in my pain
A hundred shots, but wе kept on missing
There's no regrets, 'cause we tried, my love
I hope you find that someone who
Loves you like I couldn't do
Hush, my darling, don't you cry no more
We have made it through these nights before
Feels like we're stuck inside a dream
We're slipping away from what is real
So what you doin' tonight?
Better say, "Doin' you right"
Watchin' movies, but we ain't seen a thing tonight
I think I've seen this film before
And I didn't like the ending
You're not my homeland anymore
So what am I defendin' now?
You were my town
Now I'm in exile seein' you out
I think I've seen this film before
Dance with me under the diamonds
See me like breath in the cold
Sleep with me here in the silence
Come kiss me, silver and gold
So alone in love like the world had disappeared
Oh, I won't be silent and I won't let go
I will hold on tighter 'til the afterglow
And we'll burn so bright 'til the darkness softly clears
If the whole world was watching I’d still dance with you
Drive highways and byways to be there with you
Over and over the only truth
Everything comes back to you
Then I think of the start
And it echoes a spark
And I remember the magic electricity
Then I look in my heart
There's a light in the dark
And I was blinded by the sparks
I was holdin' you close in the dark
Findin' reasons to stay where we are
Yeah, I saw you smilin', breakin' the silence
Tellin' me just what you want
There in the moment, I was reminded
I haven't felt this way in a while
I thought when I get older
I'd marry her, I told her
Now I'm twenty-six and I work in an office
Nine till five's not the best, I'll be honest
If I could change a single thing
I'd make it me and not him
I don't know what is wrong with me
But I'm scared, pissed off and lonely
I have trouble speaking to women
Unless they're 2D or high definition
The roads are my home as horizon's my target
If I keep on moving, never lose sight of it
Treating my memory of you like a fire, let it
Burn out, don't fight it and try to move on
You know it takes a lot to move me
So if you figure it out, tell me
I trace figures on your smile lines
Work a formula to cure me?
I thought I couldn't love anymore
Turns out I can't
Not for the same reasons as before
I use everyone I ever meet
I can't find the perfect match
Abuse those I love
You look so perfect standing there
In my American Apparel underwear
And I know now that I’m so down
Your lipstick stain is a work of art
I got your name tattooed in an arrow heart
And I'm 'bout that capital like a proper noun
Still on top the pile
Got me sitting on numbers like a pocket dial
It's impossible to get you off my mind
I think about 100 thoughts and you are 99
I've understood that you will never be mine
And that's fine, I'm just breaking inside
Now suddenly you're asking for it back
Could you tell me, where'd you get the nerve?
Yeah, you could say you miss all that we had
But I don't really care how bad it hurts
When you broke me first
High school's been a terrifying one
She thinks she won't ever find someone
To build her back when she's in pieces and pieces again
Let's not forget about all the
One's who go and run their mouths just to
Stay relevant and not miss out
One moment we're broken and then we're fine
Lost in the puzzle of the teenage mind
What have we come to now?
We all wanna be like the rest
Can't describe just how
But we're all a beautiful mess
To my once ride or die
The one who always knew me right
We would swear it'd always end up you and I
We really messed up this time
I want those late nights and long drives
Starin' at your goddamn smile
Makin’ me fall harder than the first time
All my friends, they warned me you were no good
But I didn't believe that you would
Be the player that plays with the games in our heads
The faker that makes you do things you'll regret
I stay up wondering
What if I broke my legs?
What if I changed my name?
Would you still love me the same?
Or are you just as fake?
Oh, all the voices and noises
And all these bad choices
It's crazy, I haven't gone insane
First, we gonna rock, then we gonna roll
Then we let it pop, go, let it go!
X gon' give it to ya, he gon' give it to ya
Grandma wishin' your soul's at rest
But it's hard to digest with the size of the hole in your chest
Y'all gon' make me lose my mind
Up in here, up in here
Y'all gon' make me go all out
Up in here, up in here
Y'all gon' make me act a fool
Up in here, up in here
Y'all gon' make me lose my cool
Up in here, up in here
Back on the scene at fourteen with a scheme
To get more cream than I'd ever seen in a dream
And by all means I will be livin' high off the hog
And I never gave a fuck about much but my dog
