Dead and Gone

Dead and Gone

Hey
Let me kick it to you right quick, man
I don't want some gangsta shit, man
I want some real shit
I'm sure you feel the same way

Oh (hey)
I've been traveling on this road too long (too long)
Just trying to find my way back home (back home)
The old me is dead and gone, dead and gone, and oh (hey)
I've been traveling on this road too long (too long)
Just trying to find my way back home (back home)
The old me is dead and gone, dead and gone, hey

Ever had one of them days
Wish you would've stayed home
Run into a group of niggas
Getting their hate on
You walk by they get wronged
You reply then shit get blown
Way out of proportion, way past discussion
Just you against them, pick one then rush 'em
Figure you'll get jumped, hell that's nothing (so)
They don't want to stop there now they're bussing
Now you're gushing, ambulance rushing you
To the hospital with a bad concussion
Plus you're hit four times plus it hit your spine
Paralyzed waist down now you're wheelchair bound
Never mind that now, you're lucky to be alive
Just think it all started
You fussing with three guys
Now your pride in the way
But your pride is the way
You could fuck around get shot die anyday
Niggas die every day all over bullshit
Dope money dice game ordinary hood shit
Could this be 'cause of hip hop music
Or did the ones with the good sense not use it
Usually niggas don't know what to do
When they're backed against the wall so they just start shooting
For red or for blue or for blow I guess
From Bankhead or from your projects
No more stress, now I'm straight
Now I get it now I take
Time to think before I make mistakes
Just for my family's sake
That part of me left yesterday
The heart of me is strong today
No regrets I'm blessed to say
The old me dead and gone away

Oh
I've been traveling on this road too long (too long)
Just trying to find my way back home (back home)
The old me is dead and gone, dead and gone, and oh (hey)
I've been traveling on this road too long (too long)
Just trying to find my way back home (back home)
The old me is dead and gone, dead and gone, hey

I ain't never been scared
I lived through tragic
Situations could've been dead
Looking back at it
Most of that shit didn't even have to happen
But you don't think about it
When you're out there trapping
In apartments hanging
Smoking and rapping
Niggas starting shit didn't
Next thing you know we capping
Get locked up then didn't even get mad
Now think about damn what a life I had
Most of that shit look back just laugh
Some shit still look back it's sad
Maybe my homeboy'd still be around
Had I not hit the nigga in the mouth that time
I won that fight, I lost that war
I can still see my nigga walking out that door
Who'd have thought I'd never see Philant no more
Got enough dead homies I don't want no more
Cost a nigga his job, cost me more
I'd have took that ass-whooping now for sure
Now think before I risk my life
Take them chances to get my stripe
A nigga put his hands on me all right
Otherwise stand there talk shit all night
'Cause I hit you and you sue me
I shoot you, get locked up, who me?
No more stress, now I'm straight
Now I get it now I take
Time to think before I make mistakes
Just for my family's sake
That part of me left yesterday
The heart of me is strong today
No regrets I'm blessed to say
The old me dead and gone away

I turn my head to the east
I don't see nobody by my side
I turn my head to the west
Still nobody in sight
So I turn my head to the north
Swallow that pill that they call pride
That old me is dead and gone
The new me will be all right
I turn my head to the east
I don't see nobody by my side
I turn my head to the west
Still nobody in sight
So I turn my head to the north
Swallow that pill that they call pride
The old me is dead and gone
The new me will be all right

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