Paces Ferry - Intellectual

[Intro]

You know pretty often I just take a late night drive all alone by myself

Clear my mind a little bit

And very often I find myself in neighborhoods that I ain't used to seeing

And these the type of neighborhoods they try to ingrain in our minds, you know

People that look just like me that we can't have that one day

But it's just inspiration to me, you feel me?

[Hook]

A nigga tryna get to Paces Ferry

The good life, new locations near me

Nothing short of being legendary

Motherfuck being secondary

I’m just tryna get to Paces Ferry

By any means necessary

Any means necessary

Just tryna get to Paces Ferry

Listen

[Verse]

Back when I was working at Two Men and a Truck nigga

And that was only three days

I felt lost, so exhausted, was walking in darkness

Like I really couldn’t see straight

Like could I really be stuck here forever?

All the shit I talk of tryna strive for better

All these rainy days, I gotta change the weather

Can’t be another case of waste of potential

And I was only 19, thought my life was over

Looking back I laugh, but that goes to show ya

High expectations I was raised with

But I’m tryna make it despite the doors closing

Closing in a nigga face

And time got a nigga losing faith

Sometimes I just need to escape

From my thoughts, I gotta get away

'Cause I put my all into it, blood, sweat, and tears

But I feel like I’m stuck after 'bout 11 years

Ain’t no manual to come with this career

And I got a few, but to fail is my biggest fear

How you think it really feel to know you got the brightest of vision?

You put your all in these songs and post 'em, but only 20 likes on the picture

But it’s no competition 'cause at every single open mic you the illest

You catch em off guard, they praise you, and you really like the attention

But the high fades away quick, back to real life for a minute

And salute to the ones before us, but I don’t know what might be the difference

Like how you get fans and excite them to listen?

This might be a surprise, but sometimes I don’t like being different

Like I ain’t hood enough

I’m too unusual

Most things y’all care about

I don’t give a fuck

And I been feeling stuck, like I ain’t living much

A sacrifice to make chasing what you love

And I hate thinking of

All these thoughts of giving up

Sometimes my confidence is through the roof, ain’t shit in life challenging

Other times it ain’t there at all, then I turn down my personality

But that ain’t living life in reality if I ain’t really out here being myself

Fuck switching up mentalities just to fit in with everybody else

Now I need a 9-figure salary

I need to spend my life balancing

Vacations to destinations

With no occasion, just glad to see

New places and the view's amazing

Can’t wait to make it and I feel it near me

And these the thoughts that’s on my mind

When a nigga ride through Paces Ferry

But I know I ain’t the only one

Right now I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing

We all on a path just to figure it out

This thing called life don’t come with blueprints

It don’t come with blueprints

And everybody’s path ain’t the same

It’s best to just laugh through the pain

'Cause dream-chasing will have you insane

And you miss out on some great times with the ones you love

In pursuit of tryna change their lives, then realize that you’re gone too much

It’s like I’m always in a rush but at the same time I ain’t doing enough

Just hope these days don’t haunt me later, please understand it was all for us

It’s like the journey really got me feeling lonely

Hella thoughts on my mind when the night comes

Playing Mr. Right to the wrong girls and Mr. Wrong to the right ones

It’s like a never ending cycle, but I’m better off giving myself the focus

And I ain’t never really been the type to let shit like that slow down the motion

But for doubtful ones, I’ll just say it simply

Why the fuck would you bet against me?

But that ain’t new to me, that’s just fuel to me

So immune to the envy

But it’s so exhausting tryna carve a path in this world I’m lost in

Maybe I’ll play this back ten years from now like look what I’ve accomplished