[Intro]

They say as long as you don’t ask for more than your share

The world will never give you more than you can bare

Bare with me

[Verse 1]

The butt of every joke whenever folks would play foul

Life is a bitter tool of ridicule that they plow

Enough to make the even great bow

How else can you explain the same how

When happen to Junior say how

Conversations with my pops

Crying as hes packing my mother’s clothes in a box

Is hard to watch, just seeing what type of state hes in

And then it dawned on me, like what if he wants to date again

And if it does can I accept it

If it he chooses to, would my mother be disrespected

Nobody knows what it’s like to become a widower

To lose the one you love and move on, does that belittle her

Try to reconsider what litters a person’s soul

For years I had a problem with reaching for certain goals

What did Satan say to Eve just God and the Serpent knows

From the day I hit the stage and till the final curtain close

[2 x Hook:]

[Verse 2]

I used to wanna be rich and wife a chick thats gorgeous

Now I just wanna help my father pay as mortgage

Now I just wanna see my brother finish school

And make sure my nieces and nephews are there to see him through

I’m seeing through, what you perceive is true

Plus you thought me growing up was more important than being cool

But you would tease him too, being cruel was a topic

They told me I wasn’t black and said I was adopted

Adopted a scholars swag, protected me from what they had

Instore but it hit my core, confided within my dad

I compensated to compensate for my melonin

I lack there of scared of, the inner hell in him

But what’s propelling him to making nigga eyes weld

I never thought I’d see the day my father needed my help

Guess we all gotta grow, until the day I touch the grave and that final curtain close

[2 x Hook:]

I’m feeling like getting high to forget about life

Nigga need something just to feel alright

Alright, alright

Let me float away, just another day

We’re looking to wipe the shame

Is something to numb the pain

[Outro]

SO please don’t get this shit misconstrude, or be subdude

Let the motherf*cking record show

The question ain’t why we get high

But whys a nigga low