Chorus

They say the light don’t dim for the real ****,

& that life get slim for the real ****,

Well **** if you see my flame, see that I can make a change, And you hating on my spark, cause you lame, please let me shine

V1

They say the talented and gifted come a dime a dozen,

When you both you come to find you got a lot of cousins,

The people closes to you thought you won’t amount to nothing,

Sad that the ones that slow you down, the same ones that say they love you, Never realizing that they in the way /

& reasons are selfish ones no matter what they say

Cause they failed to find they purpose / they use you as the play

Even if they extra weight, slow the chase, and you lose what’s at stake, Uneven exchange / to say is the least,

They ask if you pressed / just show em the crease /

You hiding the stress, tryna hold up the peace,

Now you ain’t doing ya best, trauma done humbled ya peak /

Out look getting darker, you can see the clouds,

Hindsight 2020 seeing different routes,

Oath of silence drop ya head knowing things have changed,

Now them branches looking thin, charge it to the game.

Chorus

They say the light don’t dim for the real ****,

& that life get slim for the real ****,

Well **** if you see my flame, see that I can make a change, And you hating on my spark, cause you lame, please let me shine

V2

Word on the block you lookin lie a dandy dozen,

last year the streets was dead, now the people love em,

mama praying for her child cause she see the favor,

coach calling every week bout the way you labeled,

trouble maker & a hazard cause of who you round,

right hand man jammed with a couple pounds,

judge tried to take it lightly, so he out on bond,

you ain’t seen him but you heard what he on,

story is you sent him on the route, that’s your money for the work,

& he gotta do some time, but he looking for you first,

you was nowhere near the business & what makes the matters worse,

  

there’s a bounty on ya head, $20,000 purse,

hit yo ponta for protection cause you playing out yo league,

in the dark on what’s going so you bring him up to speed,

ain’t know he knew about the bounty & right when you bout to leave, sorry homie I got babies to feed