[Chorus]

Wish I could go back into the old me

They would never give me what they owe me

The climb to the top is moving slowly

I'm feeling lowkey (like I shoulda got my degree)

(I shoulda got my degree)

[D.I.L.E.M.A.: Verse 1]

Worked 8 hours, got four left

My feet ain't got no soles left

They trying to take my weekend

Gotta bite my tongue, can't go left

Daydreaming what I could of did

What should of warned me as a little kid

Rolled the (?) should of been (?), now my life changing off a little bit

Shoulda never played, ball ahead hoop dreams

Those things kept me from the music scene

I'd have found myself quicker, if I had to wake up (and lose a drink?)

Occupied with a occupation

Teachers lied in their observation

Our students and journalists shoulda been apart of my congregation

Athlete or a businessman with the visual, I had no business plan

Fell short, but came to work-up rapping 'bout my business man

Refocus with a late start, bill's late cuz they hate art

Long shot in a field of men

But I take a chance 'cause it's in my heart

[Chorus]

Wish I could go back into the old me

They would never give me what they owe me

The climb to the top is moving slowly

I'm feeling lowkey (like I shoulda got my degree)

(I shoulda got my degree)

[D.I.L.E.M.A.: Verse 2]

Tried college twice, couldn't make it happen

Couldn't find a course that was made for rapping (nope)

'round that time I fell in love with acting

Dropped a bomb and picked up a passion

In a tangled field for an introvert

Is difficult at first it didn't work

But the feeling I get when I'm closed in

Can be going in to go and put in work

No degree so it's a hard life

I figured if I played my cards right

I won't be working that long to feel that I belong

Ain't gonna get my yard right

And be(?) was the plan to fill

Looking back I made me a plan for hell

You depend on one thing to free your soul and fall in a hole, that's the plan for jail

Now I'm stuck in here with poor (?), feeling godlike to this poor preacher

Breaking my back (just to pay for a stamp?) when I should be making that for a feature

Game time still in the bleacher, didn't scoop a (sale?) now I'm getting Ether

It's ironic that I wasn't on it cuz I come from a family of teachers

[Chorus]

Wish I could go back into the old me

They would never give me what they owe me

The climb to the top is moving slowly

I'm feeling lowkey (like I shoulda got my degree)

(I shoulda got my degree)

[LEM Verse 3]

I done worked 10 hours got two left

And it's 6 days, (even?) mandatory

Went to school for 12 years and did four more

My momma made that shit mandatory

Let me tell you this, college was a cool experience

But besides a few good times a whole lot of debt

The motherfuckers really just didn't give me shit

And I ain't lying, but doing a whole lot of trying through the strokes

I did a whole lot of crime and at times

I ain't even have a dime (shit)

I ain't even have a gram (god damn)

[Outro]

Bruh, look at.. just look at it this way dawg

We in the same race, the only difference is

I gotta let extra weight on me cuz (?)

I'm in debt out the gate

You ain't even gotta worry about that, you feel me?

Listen, look, people think college is all good, and it is to some people

But if you gotta pay them debts after you graduate?

If you in debt before you even start bruh?

Listen, and guess what else?

I ain't even working in what I got my degree in!

What the ... bruh!

Listen

I understand what you're saying but

I'm here to tell you that I got my degree

And it ain't did shit for me bro, but put me in debt

You.. ey-ey-ey, it is what it is dawg