A forty ounce for breakfast a brother through the day I I shoulda had a V8 instead anyway Let me my thought, something back to a time When my fridge was full of booze but in my not one dime
I remember back on Willis Ave, with my ace boom homey Black I would the day off hearin' the sound of the fo' oh, crack I went to work blitzed so eventually I got And caught a shocker my supervisor said, "You're dismissed"
Now as I stare at my last check now my Is and depressed I spell relief, S T I D E S, yes, with a little excess less the Why go job today? I can sit back and smoke this sack and drink And feel my shrink away
And by now the due in two weeks But inside my mind that's just another problem brew can I got evicted to the where the court martial came to my door And said, "Get this kid, get your and split You don't live no more"
And now I'm ass out, I'm so hungry I feel like I'm pass out I asked my brother for a handout and he me Though I knew he had
And rightfully so I had new shit to deal with I'm so confused I have no control of my life I I'll get lit So as my problems compile, I smile, oh yes on that forty ounce that's leadin' me to a path of nowhere So as I about tomorrow, I hesitate and say "A forty ounce for will get me through the day"
A forty for breakfast gets a brother through the day I guess I shoulda rolled a up instead, anyway Seems like every time I start, I don't know when it's time to say Now my mental gets all blurred and talk the ill behavin'
Coolin' with my boys, no names need to be At a party some brothers, I don't know I'm chillin' in some E and J With a forty OZ to wash the down And plus a lot of marijuana now I need to sit
I can't remember the last I was this blew out of my cranium My ears and head begin to hum as the room spun, anyway Next I know I blacked out woke up with vomit all over my coat Start talkin' out my ass I can't see straight but yet I
And I don't know came over me, I started dissin' both my homies I used to freestyle with and now I'm askin' them to show me What they got not thinkin' straight I don't know why I the challenge Now my ego is as if I was Mt. Saint Helen's
Some was said I know I can't erase and now shit ain't the same I wish I had one more chance to live that day again I strain 'cause this bid was to find a true And loose them to booze in my system ain't how I'm livin'
Nothin' I could really say to mend up how someone else And so I guess I gotta wait and see if maybe the will heal And I really didn't mean a word I said though I prove that Now the only that I can really say is, I went out
And out I went and now and I get irate and say A forty ounce for, nah, a forty for, fuck Just one more forty, just one more, I'll make this day A forty ounce for can get me through the day