Dead and Gone

Oh, I've been traveling on this road too long

Just tryna find my way back home

The old me is dead and gone, dead and gone

Oh, oh

Ever had one of them days, wish you would've stayed home

Run into a group of suckers trying to get they hate on?

You walk by

They get wrong

You reply, then shit gets blown

Way outta proportion

Way past discussion

Just you against them

Pick one, then rush him

Figure you'll get jumped

Hell, that's nothing

They don't wanna stop there now they busting

Now you gushing

Ambulance rushing

You get the hospital with a bad concussion

Hit four times plus it hit your spine

Paralyzed waist down, now you wheelchair bound

Never mind that now, you lucky to be alive

Just think it all started you fussing with three guys

Now ya pride in the way, but ya pride is the way

You could mess around, get shot, die any day

People die every day all over bullshit

Dope money, dice game, ordinary hood shit

Could this be 'cause of hip hop music

Or did the ones with the good sense not use it?

Usually people don't know what to do

When they're backed against the wall, so they just start shooting

For red or for blue or for dope I guess

From blank head or from your projects

No more stress, now I'm straight

Now I get it, now I take

Time to think before I make mistakes just for my family's sake

That part of me left yesterday

The heart of me is strong today

No regrets, I'm blessed to say

The old me dead and gone away

Oh, I've been traveling on this road too long

Just tryna find my way back home

The old me is dead and gone, dead and gone

Oh, oh

I ain't never been scared, I lived through tragedy

Situations could've been dead, looking back at it

Most of that shit didn't even have to happen

But you don't think about it when you out there trapping

In apartments, hanging, smoking and rapping

Suckers start shit, next thing you know, we capping

Getting locked up, didn't even get mad

Now I think about damn, what a life I had

Most of that shit, look back, just laugh

Some shit still look back, just sad

Maybe my homeboy still be around

Had I not hit he sucker in the mouth that time

I won that fight, I lost that war

I can still see my homie walking out that door

Who'da thought I'd never see Philant no more

Got enough dead homies, I don't want no more

Cost a sucker his job, cost me more

I'd took that ass-whooping now, for sure

Now I think before I risk my life

Take them chances to get my stripe

A sucker put his hands on me alright

Otherwise stand there, talk shit all night

'Cause I hit you, you sue me

I shoot you, locked up, who me?

No more stress, now I'm straight

Now I get it, now I take

Time to think before I make mistakes just for my family's sake

That part of me left yesterday

The heart of me is strong today

No regrets, I'm blessed to say

The old me dead and gone away

Oh, I've been traveling on this road too long

Just tryna find my way back home

The old me is dead and gone, dead and gone

Oh, oh

I turn my head to the east

I don't see nobody by my side

I turn my head to the west

Still nobody in sight

So I turn my head to the north

Swallow that pill that they call pride

That old me is dead and gone

But that new me will be alright

I turn my head to the east

I don't see nobody by my side

I turn my head to the west

Still nobody in sight

So I turn my head to the north

Swallow that pill that they call pride

That old me is dead and gone

But that new me will be alright

Oh, I've been traveling on this road too long

Just tryna find my way back home

The old me is dead and gone, dead and gone

Oh, oh

Oh, I've been traveling on this road too long

Just tryna find my way back home

The old me is dead and gone, dead and gone

Oh, oh