[Chorus: JID]

I've done seen some better days before

Feeling like forever was a long time ago

Balancin' highs and the lows

Get your blindfold, only God knows

I've done seen some better days before

Feeling like forever was a long time ago

Balancin' highs and the lows

Get your blindfold, only God knows

[Verse 1: JID]

Look, twin, don't forget the better days, we been friends since ten

Back then, we told people we cousins, kin

The buses from my school couldn't come to whеre I live

So my mama used to drop mе at your crib

Like 4, maybe 5 A.M

I ain't get no good sleep 'til I was twenty-seven

I used to wear my big bro clothes

He used to let me borrow some of your clothes

I thought that I looked funny in 'em

It's only you and (censored)

Your parents used to treat me like they third son

I'm the first one buckin' on any person

Tryna make you feel hurt or somethin'

You my brother, I murder somethin' for you

Throw that dirty gun into the Chattahoochee

You Louis, I be Gucci, we was Webbie and Boosie with the low fade

Brush my hair for days, still ain't have no waves

Now we talkin' through a window while you in a cage

I'ma come get you when you figure out your day

I was in and out the States, you was rapid on the rage

Had Atlanta goin' crazy, I was packin' out the stage in different places

You hit me, said Cassandra had your baby

The day that Kobe died, I'm at the Grammy's in LA

Pray Allah can show you grace and the law stay out the way

But when you caught that other case, I ain't know what your ass was thinking

My momma said to say, "You ain't too old to get a spankin'"

Still one of her children but she feel like you need to be thankful you still here

[Chorus: JID]

I've done seen some better days before (Yeah)

Feeling like forever was a long time ago

Balancin' highs and the lows

Get your blindfold, only God knows

I've done seen some better days before

Feeling like forever was a long time ago

Balancin' highs and the lows

Get your blindfold, only God knows

[Post-Chorus: JID]

Oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh

[Bridge: Johntá Austin & JID]

Life gets too real, make you you

Life skills you build make you choose (Make you choose)

Between old times and new waves (New waves)

Fake friends and real snakes, false knowns and true values

Compute it to see through it, we do it (Ooh-ooh)

Take a moment to breathe and achieve through it

Stay free through it 'cause your vision makes me your slave (Uh, look)

So I pray for better days (Check)

[Verse 2: JID]

To make it to forever took a very long time

I took every wrong turn, packed a long line

Just for rapping long words

Fuck a net worth, I made a million off of merch

Pay the bills first and then invest in guest verses

Regret shit, the lessons, the blessings, the journey

Agitate the white guilt, explain the black burden

The stresses, the entrance, the exit, the purpose

Praying that we see some better days between worse ones

Nothing's ever perfect but I made it so my mom's ain't working

Off of murkin' instrumentals and there's no coincidence

When I was little, I was very sensitive

Never was talkative, nigga, don't even try and tickle him

Me and my brothers and sistanem slept in the same room

Suffered the same afflictions

See the reflection of a nigga that never liked attention

Don't need acceptance from strangers coming in mentions

I got protection, papa had the right prediction

Said I was destined to be whatever I envisioned

I manifested, blessin' that I made it out the club of twenty-seven

No weapon was formed against me

I formed against the weapon

Tried to stretch 'em but niggas sprintin'

If we don't catch 'em then God'll get 'em then

We ain't gotta get into karma of bein' killer men

But you did in our better days, now I miss my friend

[Outro]

I've done seen some better days before (Uh, whoa, shit)

Feeling like forever was a long time ago

I've done seen some better days before

Feeling like forever was long ago, go, no