//bridge [SHADEED.]//

So many thoughts in my brain

I don't know what's okay to say

I'm living life day to day

Looking at the man in the mirror, wondering: "Do people see me in the same way?"

//chorus [dicky nob$]//

It all comes to mind when I'm traveling, having them late nights

I know that I grow, even though I be staying the same height

Girls will leave you with a snake bite

But stay determined like a great white

Never lose hope with it, learn how to cope with it, that's why I pray every night

//verse #1 [dicky nob$]//

And you know that I'm in it to win it

This ain't a game show, but I do it in a minute

Like Guy Fieri, body's getting carried

Away, they go to a cemetery to visit

I jump in, Corbin Bleu, and push it to the limit

Getting W's and M's too, so I can say I flip it

Got digits, cricket; don't get it, twisted

It's a given, just listen, no kidding, I'm winning, like

Charlie Sheen, what the fuck you mean?

All I do is globe trot like the Harlem team

I'm so done with these hoes and their silly ways, my flow is on Billy Mays, it's Oxi-Clean

These fiends like Lil Pump, chasing mollys and beans

See me, I'm J Cole, chasing dollars and dreams

On the mic I'm a wizard, no Waverly Place, just say what you say, but everything's not what it seems

No Selena, not Latina

I'll be selling out arenas in a drop top beemer

Where's your girl? I've not seen her

But I steal her, you can't see her, but she's not John Cena

I'm about to hit you with the five knuckle shuffle

To hold my money, you need to buy a couple duffel

Bags, under their eyes, and they sleeping on me

But I leave em behind, cause slow feet don't eat

//bridge [SHADEED.]//

So many thoughts in my brain

I don't know what's okay to say

I'm living life day to day

Looking at the man in the mirror, wondering: "Do people see me in the same way?"

//chorus [dicky nob$]//

It all comes to mind when I'm traveling, having them late nights

I know that I grow, even though I be staying the same height

Girls will leave you with a snake bite

But stay determined like a great white

Never lose hope with it, learn how to cope with it, that's why I pray every night

//verse #2 [SHADEED.]//

It was just the beginning

Now I'm in it

Gotta finish and get it

All these niggas talking shit, but I swear to god they pretending

Talking about they packing, like they was taking vacations

But I bet you got a shooter, for all these niggas that's hating

Never wanted to wait on a come up, bitch I'm impatient

Millions, I need it now, like taken I need my payment

Jumping into the crowd, I'm surfing, I caught a wave and

Now I'm off to the races

Bet your ass that I'm next (uh)

Waiting on a damn check (right)

Gotta flex, I ain't ever vexed

Tryna take a shot, fuck a damn vest

If a nigga got a problem, we gonna run it like a check

What you know about the late nights?

I'm in the stu', fuck a date night

I'm just tryna get my cake right

Staying sharp like a steak knife

Yeah the game, imma save it, I ain't hanging up the cape, right

//verse #3 [dicky nob$]//

But I never read a page of the Bible

Living life in the fast lane, I can't drive slow

I tried to better myself, and steady my health, but I ran over you on the high road

I know, they know, you know it

Be the greatest, yeah I will, son, Owen

We robbin like Williams, we take it and we goin

If you doubt that I will fire, leave you dead like a poet

Me and my gang, yeah we make our own society

You hatin, you unsuccessful, like a Lohan sobriety

They rap and they all sound the same, I bring variety

I'm here for entirety, write my name in your diaries

My notoriety, compare to Ellen DeGeneres

You can see the irony, young veteran with some cleverness

Robin Van Persie, getting head with some leverage

Cause I'm quick to reach my goals, like I'm Pierre-Emerick

There was a time I was hella empty

I keep my friends right, cause they never left me

No matter the direction or way that the story goes

It's a Boulevard of Broken Dreams down this lonely road

Attack your ear when I'm grabbing the mic, Tyson

My ex changed, but I stay true to self like Bryson

No 502, but I'm on the come-up, I started out in last

And I'll be popping up to first, Louisiana fast

//bridge [SHADEED.]//

So many thoughts in my brain

I don't know what's okay to say

I'm living life day to day

Looking at the man in the mirror, wondering: "Do people see me in the same way?"

//chorus [dicky nob$]//

It all comes to mind when I'm traveling, having them late nights

I know that I grow, even though I be staying the same height

Girls will leave you with a snake bite

But stay determined like a great white

Never lose hope with it, learn how to cope with it, that's why I pray every night