I stayed silent when the world turned cold

Carry stories that I never told

Loyalty cost me more than I knew

You know loyalty is the word they use when they still need something from you, you know

We was past that, you know

God, I just wanna say thank you, you know, thank you

I just wanna say thank you

It's been really deep out here, man, living that life

Too strong, man, you know

Still, I gotta keep it 100

The plug, man, you know

After my father retired, I'm blowing steam in his fire

They saying that he's a scholar's son

Is that not ishola's son,my poor mother managing

Making good on my sanity

Drive to school later, you walking through memories

The times were good, I remember puberty

Little by little, and I grew up to this imagery

I was the only child and the world was my enemy

Carrying the weight that was really never meant for me

I was searching for love, but it came with a penalty

Sometimes I pay the price for the things I ain't have to eat

So life taught me recklessly of dog bites and cavity

The casualty of chasing dreams, and I am on a daily scheme

Building up, creating dreams, cause we don't sleep around here

With one slip, your whole life could change around here

I remember I was sleeping with no light

Bills paid, but the government wasn't all right

It's real here

I was saying I will go call you to hear from you

Actually, I didn't hear from you yet

Sorry man, I was busy, I was trying to sleep

How are you

I'm fine, no problem

How's your daddy

My daddy is fine

How's your hand now

My hand is far far better

It's getting good

Yeah

Now after all the said and done

I was still the only son

First time I saw a gun, I was barely 21

Bad kids in cartels, we was making runs

From police and the drug team

You know the pain wrong

Friends became old songs

My best friend wasn't my best friend when the girls involved

Tell Maite that I made it and I got married too

Got a beautiful wife, blessed with a son

To share our values too

This what we prayed for

God has a funny way of granting us favors

But we forget to thank our saviors

We too overzealous

Oh lord, please forgive us

We was chasing dreams

Forget them we was plotting schemes

Idara man, the world is a big place my son

Your friends will like my son

Some will be nice my son

You've got your pride my son

Don't fold your arms my son

I promise you the sun will still just be the sun

When you awake my son

In the morning when Kachi and the other kids came out from the car

And he insisted to go to school by himself

So I was like, don't carry him, allow him to walk by himself

I said, Kachi, that is not the direction of the school

We have to fight over that one

Kachi, that is not the direction

If you want to walk by yourself, walk towards the direction of the school

So Hida eventually understood he had to walk towards the direction of the school