All I Gotta Do

1993 take me back to my birth To the days I was young back when I had my first Experiences Learned to look at life through different mirror lenses Everybody has a different view- right? Not everything is what it seems to you- right? You don't know the life inside my shoes- right? But I could paint a picture out for you- right? I say this all cuz you could say it too- right You get the picture I'm just tryna make it clearer Cuz now a days it's easy to get stuck inside a mirror And it seems like stayin' true is gettin' harder to do, ha That's why I roll with a few-oh And if I died today I know that I'd be okay-ay Cuz I know my soul stays And even when I'm on the go and gotta be on the road I know that I could count on your love to bring me back home When life gets so tough all I wanna do is sing like Oooh oh oh, ahh ah ah When life gets so tough all I gotta do is sing like Oooh oh oh, ahh ah ah I said, quit tryna push up on my buttons and control me I am not Sony I could sniff a phony from afar I am lonely better off Cuz some homies never call and I be gettin' pissed off When I feel I'm pissed on, they don't wanna listen All I do is give love Tell me what I'm missin' I'm sick of gettin' judged and I don't mean to interrupt But I feel like I'll go crazy if I let this bottle up I just wish I could go back to when our fam' is all we had Cuz as I've grown and tried to find myself I learned they're all I have Lookin' back to look ahead like the light in the dark Ima shine, shootin' star Let it show through my art Who I'm really meant to be What this music means to me I create my destiny So Ima write until I'm free And even though it really seems like we are, we ain't There's just another way to look at the paint Cuz It takes pain to maintain The pain to make change The pain to bring rain The pain to good things That pain that I've felt to turn this pain to something else The pain it takes to not judge yourself Harder than anyone else The pain I feel when I feel like I can't ask for help So I just do it myself Cuz I know I won't let me down I'm puttin' my life on the line for what is keepin' me around And they can't ever tell me anything When they wanna discourage me I'm indestructible the only one I fear is me I got the key to my happiness Mindset always extravagant And though life ain't so lavish I can still try to imagine it Cuz I know we been through so much but this pain leads to love And the love overcomes and Ima heal from it Take that love that I feel and ima keep runnin' Because it means somethin' When life gets so tough all I wanna do is sing like Oooh oh oh, ahh ah ah When life gets so tough all I gotta do is sing like Oooh oh oh, ahh ah ah