Hell and Back

By Rittz

On Picture Perfect

Released on October 9, 2020

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[Verse 1: Rittz]

Where's God?

I don't know why he keep playin' hide and seek

My tears drop

Eyelids leaky coming down each cheek

I taste salt on my tongue

No, that's blood, I know that taste well

Know there's angels that's looking out for me

Maybe it's my grandfather, God, I'm so ashamed now

I hold my face down, I don't like eye contact

Don't gotta prove what kinda man I am

To who? To you? Do you truly think

I give a fuck what people say, you think I'd lose a wink?

If you would die right now, that I highly doubt

The highway south was looking like a drought with wild fires

Got a grown man body with a mind of a child, without God


[Pre-Chorus: Rittz]

The science is shell-shocked, and I'm no war vet, but I've seen combat and grief

I got well off and went back poor fast, my lifе ain't all that it seems

But did I talk to the Devil? He got through whеn he tried contacting me

I can't believe he had the audacity

I was in his grip until he lost grasp of me

God saved me


[Chorus: Rittz]

I done been to Hell

I done been to Hell and back

Fire's burning, melt my skin

My body's charred from my melted flesh

God, I need your help

Praying that I get welcomed back

'Cause I've been to Hell

I done been to Hell and back again


[Verse 2: Rittz]

I'm sober now, so I never felt better

But I never meant to be a poster child for recovery

And ever since, there's a set of kids I guess I influence

And now they looking up to me

I bet I never have another sip of liquor

If a slip up happens, they like I don't practice what I preach

You was looking like was done with these

To me was I struggle with this drunk disease

Deadly no more, hourly counting each minute pass

A meet and greet with the fans, I lit up a cigarette

Tried to pretend I'm glad, I quit, I've been living lav'

But inside I'm itchin' bad, got triggered with liquor breath

You know how hard it is to get off stage and hit the bed?

Starin' at the ceiling when you feelin' straight adrenaline

Knowing that no one would know if I get tempted

Went and had a shot at the lobby bar, don't have to consider that

Relapse and keep that one between us and keep

Acting, the minute I think that was an option

I think back when things blackin', me smackin' my face on the pavement

And risk the fate to escapin', and end up slaying the Jay

Dragon, so much on my plate

Stacking up I shoulda ate

Tapas, the atmosphere that was here, that was years of the same

Man, it's sad as a catastrophic storm, brain full of brain damage

My hand in an ace bandage, a hand on my straight jacket


[Pre-Chorus: Rittz]

And I got shell-shocked, and I'm no war vet, but I've seen combat and grief

I got well off and went back poor fast, my life ain't all that it seems

I swear that I talk to the Devil? He got through when he tried contacting me

I can't believe he had the audacity

I was in his grip until he lost grasp of me

God saved me


[Chorus: Rittz]

I done been to Hell

I done been to Hell and back

Fire's burning, melt my skin

My body's charred from my melted flesh

God, I need your help

Praying that I get welcomed back

'Cause I've been to Hell

I done been to Hell and back again


[Verse 3: Doobie]

I done been to H-E-Double hockey sticks

All my jackets blue to describe the kinda mood that I'm in

Have you ever relaxed, say you won't do it again?

'Til you do it again and feel like a loser again

When you feed into pressure you looking foolish to them

While you feed your depression and you just letting 'em do it?

Because you scared to be you, it has an effect on your music

And you done lost it again and it's a problem again

You at the bottle again? Hard to quit, on the benz

Piece of shit to your friends but you wake up and forget

And now we don't know you, bring back the old you

Something's just gotta give

I know sometimes you really just try'na live

But you don't wanna die 'cause you just try'na live

You don't wanna be that guy that never had no fight

Who lose everything he had because he ain't use a fist

You don't wanna be a coward do you?

You think you got it all figured out? More power to you

You don't know what it's like to have abandonment issues

They'd rather hand you the issues instead of handle the issues

Now what's a man by the business if he don't stand on his principles?

Let me tell ya

That's a man who ain't talking 'bout jack

He ain't never been to Hell then back

Bitch it's Doobie

[Bridge: Rittz & Doobie]

I done been to Hell

And back again

I done been to Hell

I pray my past don't get me no more

I done been to Hell

And I'm glad I went

I done been to Hell

Yes, I'm back again


[Chorus: Rittz]

I done been to Hell

I done been to Hell and back

Fire's burning, melt my skin

My body's charred from my melted flesh

God, I need your help

Praying that I get welcomed back

'Cause I've been to Hell

I done been to Hell and back again