[Hook]

You ain’t growin’ up boy, you just gettin’ older

You ain’t growin’ up boy, you just gettin’ older

A boy in a man’s body, you ain’t doin’ nothin’

I know who you is, boy you’re Benjamin Button

[Verse 1]

Grew up as a young ‘un in them city streets

Where the blind leading the blind at

You know what, they die young

But so what, they grow old, not grow up, it’s like a time lapse

But that’s just how it is though

But he don’t wanna die, he just don’t know what it is to live though

‘Cause daddy dipped when he was a kid

He’s still alive but in his heart it’s like he never lived

In hell is hurt, that’s just his pain

At night his mom can’t pay the bills, she prayin’ something change

Gas electric, electric gas

Them the choices that you make when you ain’t got no cash

Tired of asking his momma for stuff he know he can’t have

So he pitchin’ in, he gettin’ it, you can find him out on that Ave

Sleeping with the gorillas, and wrestling with them bears

Average life span’s around 25, around here them boys they don’t care … I’m like

[Hook]

You ain’t growin’ up boy, you just gettin’ older

You ain’t growin’ up boy, you just gettin’ older

A boy in a man’s body, you ain’t doin’ nothin’

I know who you is, boy you’re Benjamin Button

Benjamin Button, boy you’re Benjamin Button

Say you’re Benjamin Button, boy you’re Benjamin Button

Say you’re Benjamin Button, boy you’re Benjamin Button

Say you’re Benjamin Button … you just gettin’ older

[Verse 2]

Grew up as a young girl in them city streets

Where the blind leading the blind at

You know what, they die young

But so what, they grow old, not grow up, it’s like a time lapse

Momma clubbin’, daddy thuggin’, you know what they on

It’s like he here but he gone, but that’s another song

She thinks she grown, she just 16 going on 30

Since daddy left, she vowed “I’ll never let a man hurt me”

Heard me? Gucci, Louis, Fendi, Prada

So she just use a man for a dollar, makin’ him holler

Pretty face, body the flown

Use what she got, get what she want

Just a child raised by a child, momma was just a baby

Having a baby, nobody taught her to be a lady

Now she a baby with a baby, look at how she lived

Full grown, but living like she a kid, gettin’ older

[Hook]

You ain’t growin’ up boy, you just gettin’ older

You ain’t growin’ up boy, you just gettin’ older

A boy in a man’s body, you ain’t doin’ nothin’

I know who you is, boy you’re Benjamin Button

Benjamin Button, Benja-Benjamin Button

Benjamin Button, boy you’re Benjamin Button

Benjamin Button, boy you’re Benjamin Button

Say you’re Benjamin Button … you just gettin’ older

[Bridge]

When you say you’re grown, you ain’t grown ‘cause of timing

It’s ‘cause you put them childish things behind you

When you say you’re grown, you ain’t grown ‘cause of timing

It’s ‘cause you put them childish things behind you

(Repeat)

[Verse 3]

I grew up as a young ‘un in them city streets

Where the blind leading the blind at

You know what, they die young

But so what, they grow old, not grow up, it’s like a time lapse

That’s how it is when every man that you know

In the hood whippin’ good ‘cause he pushin’ that blow

And so we move how he move, man you already know

Till the Lord touched my soul, homie I wasn’t grown, just gettin’ older …

[Hook]

You ain’t growin’ up boy, you just gettin’ older

You ain’t growin’ up boy, you just gettin’ older

A boy in a man’s body, you ain’t doin’ nothin’

I know who you is, boy you’re Benjamin Button

Benjamin Button, Benja-Benjamin Button

Benjamin Button, boy you’re Benjamin Button

Benjamin Button, boy you’re Benjamin Button

Say you’re Benjamin Button … you just gettin’ older