Charles Brown (feat. E-40 & Jay Ant)

I'm trying to know what the future holds, hey

But it ain't for you to know

Keep to myself like the usual, yeah

But it ain't for you to know

My vision clear, never losing hope

But it ain't for you to know (It ain't for you to know)

Keep to myself like usual

But it ain't for you to know

Sometimes I gotta be dolo, when I'm just walkin' 'round

Young Gerald, Young Charlie Brown

Some shit is better to keep to yourself than say out loud

Some shit you see and they don't

So I simply jot it down

It was written, had the vision as a youth

That I would make it here one day

A flight to the top, cop a one-way

While looking out the window of the subway

16, slapping Mac Dre

Somehow, I always knew it would be that way

I felt it so clear, it's like a rode a time machine and I saw it

I paint the picture and draw it, I fold it up in my wallet

Keep it with me everywhere I go, just as a reminder

To myself, every time I get discouraged or tired

I got greatness inside of me

I go against the grain, 'til they're tired of me

I've heard it all, nothing surprises me

See, I'm the one , I'm the anomaly

But never mind me, I'll just be up here, killing them quietly

Ya know?

I'm trying to know what the future holds, hey (I'm tryna know)

But it ain't for you to know (It ain't for you to know)

Keep to myself like the usual, yeah (I just keep it to myself and keep it movin')

But it ain't for you to know (Ya know?)

My vision clear, never losing hope

But it ain't for you to know

Keep to myself like usual

But it ain't for you to know

Yeah, and I heard 'em say

(Nothing's ever promised tomorrow today)

I'm from the Bay, like 40 and Dre

So I'ma do it in a major way (We gonna do it in a major way)

I said, ugh, I heard 'em say

(Nothing's ever promised tomorrow today)

I'm from the Bay, like 40 and Dre

Chasing dreams, it's the only way, only way (Let me tell' em right quick, doe)

I'm still here, remember these lyrics (These lyrics)

And when I'm dead and gone, I'll be there in spirit (In spirit)

Don't let 'em run my name in the mud

Don't let 'em smear it (Don't let 'em smear it)

Just pour some Rossi out, go ahead and tear it

One of a kind, no copy (No copy)

Tell your grandchildren, children about me (About me)

Tell 'em I was the illest (The illest)

Let 'em know I spit the realest (The realest)

Went from pennies and nickels to large amounts (Amounts)

Kept it in the hood where it counts (Where it counts)

Never was them, always was him (Always was him)

Had to prove myself time and time again (Again)

Just when they thought it was it (What happened?)

He back with another hit (Another hit)

We brought rest of the world

Who was it?

E-40 and Gerald (Ugh)

I'm trying to know what the future holds, hey

But it ain't for you to know

Keep to myself like the usual, yeah

But it ain't for you to know

My vision clear, never losing hope

But it ain't for you to know (It ain't for you to know)

Keep to myself like usual

But it ain't for you to know

So where I go from here?

I did the most you could possibly pack into a year

Now I can either fall off or completely disappear

Or I could move up to the highest tier

Conversations with Gerald standing in front the mirror

Ask myself, like fuck the bullshit, what you really fear?

We all wanna be understood, hope they hear us clear

But that shit never happens everywhere, yeah

So I just do me on my fuck the world shit

I'm riding through the town listening to Earl's shit

We tryna lift The Bay up, could probably curl it

I learned from the legends, they tell me "You're it"

So always maintain and try to stay sane

And just do you, give a fuck what they sayin'

We artists are all alike, feel the same pain

You want the whole world, we want the same thing

I'm tryna know what the future holds, yeah

But it ain't for you to know

Keep it to myself like the usual, yeah

But it ain't for you to know

My vision clear, never losing hope

But it ain't for you to know (It ain't for you to know)

Keep to myself like usual

But it ain't for you to know

But it ain't for you to know

But it ain't for you to know

My vision clear, never losing hope

But it ain't for you to know

But it ain't for you to know