[Verse 1]

Since '91 I been a menace, for real

Born rotten and exposed

A rose in a garden full of hoes

A flowerbed of souls

Where the flowers never learn

They can go, they can grow, they can—

They can be something

I'm a bird, I'm a bird—

Look at me fronting

Been confused and obtuse, gotta mean something

I don't feel, I don't feel, I mean nothing

Mama look around, what you gotta say?

You probably never gave a fuck about me anyway

I know I'm foolish, 'cause I love you with my whole soul

But I keep running so, I ain't gotta home—

I don't wanna go home

Runnin' from the fire in my brains, in my ozone

Runnin' from the pressure 'till I cave in my own home

You don't understand the obsessions that I got

I need love, I don't feel that shit a lot, nigga

Been alone from the motherfuckin' jump, man

Every battle, every hurdle, every hump, man

Bitches either feel it or they motherfuckin'

Don't, man

Time to draw the line and do the motherfuckin'

*Snort*, man

Man, listen, I don't talk about myself, nigga, oh no

You don't get it, you don't feel it, nigga, oh no

Where I'm from is a nightmare, not a smoke show

Niggas never make it there, they never make it, oh no, nigga

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[Verse 2]

I'm from the generation of the scarred and abused

For real, man

You're either dead or you're dyin' or you doomed

And what's worse is nobody's got a clue

Of what the fuck that I go through in my brain

That there's a fuckin' beast of the motherfuckin' chain

That I be having dragons in my heart being slain

'Till I'm broken and too vulnerable again

Love—nobody ever showed me what it was, my nigga

For real

I've been beggin' since a youngin', since a cub, my nigga

For real

Saw into your pretty blue soul like the rainbow

My third eye saw your devil and your angel

We tried to love each other from a different angle

Unfortunately, we still got strangled

I don't even know if I'm-ma make it to the next day!

Every day, I wake up and I feel like it's my deathday!

You can see inside me like a motherfuckin' x-ray!

Losin' to my demons in a motherfuckin' chess game!

It's a hard life I choose to lead

The memories' so lucidly

I'm just speakin' truthfully

It's hard to breathe, it's hard to breathe, damn