[Intro]
Cracked screens
Cracked dreams
Blurred visions
[Verse 1]
Lately I've been smiling less
My heart beat, it's beating out of my chest
Probably that bump I did, this the first time I told you I did a line
I know that won't make you smile I know that won't make you proud but I'm sorry Momma
Look I'm just tryna tell my story Momma, I just wanna bring you honor
But lately I'm filled up with pain
This past year, it ain't been the same
But I guess we're one in the same
‘Cause lately I'm in this place: "give me my space
Stay out of my f**ing way, stay out of my f**ing face" woah
This road's different from what I chose, but these are my cards I suppose
It's so different from what I called home
We're so distant, can't pick up the phone? “No!”
This is that stuff that nobody knows
Usually everybody nose, steady sniffing, all in my business
These typical Christians, who claiming they on a mission
But all I hear is the hisses, okay I'm kidding
But every lie has some truth in it, and all my lines they have truth in it
To tell the truth I know that you didn't
Give an F about me or my family when we were in need
Of some love, sent from above, little angel wings flap your wings save me
From me, reality or bad dream save me from this mentality, please
[Verse 2]
Lately I've been smiling less
My heart sinks, now it's drowning but can still feel it pounding
I guess it's stress, they say you still alive if you could feel pain
But it's strange, I thought I died 'cause all I'm feeling is shame
So I hide, or runaway as if I'm running a race, at my pace
But I trip, and then I fall on my face
Then there's Pop, and then “POP!”, he snaps me back in my place
“Get up, don't give up they don't want to see you succeed"
And he's right, life lessons, always giving advise
‘Bout how to drive, "don't turn sharp while making a right
Use your lights, (in the rain), drive slow it's slippery at night"
I'm like "I know this" I got this little plastic card to show it
And I know he wants me to take a different road that he chose but sh**!
I get it! "well if you got it, why ain't you with it?
‘Cause you still doing stupid stuff as if you never did it
Yet you still won't listen, you still don't get it
And you still think you know it all, walking ‘round his house, big balls, chest out
But still acting like them children?"
"Son if you listen to what I say then you will go far
Turn your dreams, reality, won't have to work hard
If you listen to what I say then you will go far
Turn your dreams, reality, won't have to work hard"
[Verse 3]
Look, lately I've been shedding some tears
It's been a couple years now and I see it clear
Not every good thing comes to an end, this life is chapters
I lose my place but manage to catch balance and it saddens
Me, ‘cause as a teen I had a dream, buy my folks a house
No spouse, but now I gotta pay for two cribs
Two cars, two different ways to live
Two roofs over different people's heads, talk about stress
At times I wanna cry, so I get high to match my pride
(inhale)
I gotta come down, I calm down and stay grounded
This life's insane I'm trying to find an outlet
I guess the outlet's in my mind, life's what you make it
I seen the devil snatch it, I seen the devil take it
I seen the devil break it, I see the devil asking
God for another chance to take my soul, oh no I won't let it go
He try and take my soul, oh no I won't let it go
[Outro]
They try and taint my soul
They try and taint my soul, oh no I won't let it go
They try and taint my soul, oh no I won't let it go
They try and taint my soul
They try and taint my soul, oh no I won't let it go
They try and taint my soul, oh no I won't let it go
I see the devil asking God for another chance to take my soul, oh no I won't let it go