Credits
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Michael Dontae Jones
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Angel Bencosme
Producer
Lyrics
Yeah
D. Jones
Yeah
Uh huh
Real talk music
Yeah
Church music
Yeah
Now if you can't respect this
Cuz this is church music
That Holy Ghost filled
Shut up in your bones music
This is real talk music
This is real talk music
You can't respect this
Cuz this is church music
That Holy Ghost filled
Shut up in your bones music
This is real talk music
This is real talk music
They say they never really miss you til you dead or you gone
So, on that note I think I'll just move along
So, you ain't gotta feel this way about me for long
At least let me tell you why I'm this way hold on
I was conceived in Philly by my moms Courtney Jones
Pops wasn't ready for a kid, so she left him alone
She moved on to Albany to start and build a great home
It was just the three of us that's why I hate being alone
In school couldn't read or write but I'm still holding on
Watching my back from bullies' man I gotta stay strong
Walking through school watching people making money so long
I knew right from wrong, but I always chose wrong
Even though I went to church and knew every song
I wished that I could grow up and just survive on my own
All the feelings and the hurt I just kept on my dome
I felt the heat that I kept an inside of every bone
Hold on
Now if you can't respect this
Cuz this is church music
That Holy Ghost filled
Shut up in your bones music
This is real talk music
This is real talk music
You can't respect this
Cuz this is church music
That Holy Ghost filled
Shut up in your bones music
This is real talk music
This is real talk music
When I turned 16 I said forget my pop
I always wanted to be the man that my pops was not
I never stood out on the corner the block was hot
But I wanted to make my money into a fat knot
And now I'm in 11th grade started smoking that haze
It calmed on my nerves and put my mind in a daze
Waiting for when I'll be on my own counting them days
My mom seeing me as a man and she was amazed
But what she didn't know was all the hurt and pain inside
I sold weed in college so that I could get by
Some nights I hold my pillow snuggled up and just cry
Many days I sit and wonder why can't I just die
I never see my dad and til this day I'm glad
So poor that I sold drugs out of a plastic bag
Had many girls that I loved and I messed them up bad
And still there's one girl that I wish I had
Goodbye
Now if you can't respect this
Cuz this is church music
That Holy Ghost filled
Shut up in your bones music
This is real talk music
This is real talk music
You can't respect this
Cuz this is church music
That Holy Ghost filled
Shut up in your bones music
This is real talk music
This is real talk music
Check
Once I make it it's goodbye to all of that stuff
I'm not trynna be another black man in cuffs
Put down the weed and the drinks enough of that stuff
I'm bout to show all you haters how ALB do it rough
You'll probably see me on TV rapping and acting
But most of all I want the whole world to see me praising
With the best girl in the world on my arm romancing
White pinstripe suit (Yes)
Looking so handsome (Yep)
I wanna buy my mom the big house of her dreams
And buy my bro a red drop so low that it leans
Putting the Lord first now I'm a part of that team
I want to release all my fantasies and mostly my dreams
I want to release all the stress that sits on my brain
And in case you didn't know I'm just trying to stay sane
I'm so special to my mom can't you see
This is the life I chose or rather the life that chose me
Writer(s): Michael Jones
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