[Verse 1]

Do I have to go?

Well maybe for a little

They say goodbye is brutal, see you later's just a brittle

Remember you used to do this rapping shit so non-comital

Homeroom, speech class, was walking in the middle

Classroom Richard Price, tryna get the people going

Serious has left the room, now I'm accidentally flowing

Shoutout Marcus you have no idea

That dumbass battle sparked a whole career

And ain't it funny how we look back at time we wished we took back, but wrong

We was in the right place for us all along

Cold crib, songbird[?] station, put your records on

Wood Tip Wine smoke, peach Paul Masson

Night shift, standing by the walk-in

While Jordan had to clock in, we stood there trading poems

Didn't know it then, but I was floating for a purpose

It was something unseen

[Chorus]

Do I have to go?

Do you have to stay?

I'll be all alone

You'll be far away

I'm not trying to whine or put up a fight

But how will I know if I'm doing this right?

When can I come home?

Will you still be here?

It feels like so long

It's just been six years

I already feel old

I miss when we were five

There's better days ahead, but all my favorites are behind

[Verse 2]

Word up

We riding 'round in the whip flippin' birds up

Windows all down so the whole city heard us

Big dreams, that's so no one could deter us

We was making diamonds, put us in a furnace

And we wasn't scared of nothin', and nobody could hurt us

And I was on the come up

At least that's what the words was

It was such an oyster of a world

Miss how good it felt to live

Miss that brave but naïve girl

Sometimes life is really cruel just to show us all the people that we dearly miss who don't know us

Then my only wish was just to travel to Paris

Now my only wish is have back half my parents

But that's what we call living

What we call evolving

What we call a cycle, constantly revolving

Grateful that I had it even though I miss 'em

So many good moments

Glad I got to list 'em

[Chorus]

Do I have to go?

Do you have to stay?

I'll be all alone

You'll be far away

I'm not trying to whine or put up a fight

But how will I know if I'm doing this right?

When can I come home?

Will you still be here?

It feels like so long

It's just been six years

I already feel old

I miss when we were five

There's better days ahead, but all my favorites are behind

[Outro]

There's better days ahead, but all my favorites are behind