[J. Cole - 1] I just killed a man My body trembling can you feel my hand Don't shed no tears, it be long before they find out it was me momma This may be the last you see me free ma spend it cryin' You did best, me I was blessed, know you were stressed tryin' To keep me out the streets, me police not to make a peek to wake you up out your sleep A drunk and high Skip a class, fluncking high I know you me better, somehow I never learned I was playing with fire, somehoe I never burned You tried to set me straight, somehow I permed You tried to show me right but somehow I never in a cloud of marijuana, are you sane dummy Dry your face mommy, not to blame for me See I'm a man, I gotta take came for me At times I wonder 'bout my Would it change for me if he was Would I still be running with the lowlife's Bum ass no jobs, no life Seen them killed for no price I watched his life flash before his eyes like a light I pulled the momma be hard, I aint mean to kill the n-gga momma But what's is done I'm on the run, I live my like a movie now it's way too realer Who woulda thought your baby boy woulda grew up to be a
Yeh, now I'm a I'm a killer They got me in here with the Yeah I mean the
[J. - Verse 2] I wonder whats in for me Lately been stressing, pray for blessings, hope that there's for me Than a simple life N-ggas that I used to hoop with is doing triple Gave up the jump Work on the john Who woulda thought I to block this n-ggas lay ups Now he's in a layed up I you well, stay up Like This can make a n-gga fold like a laundry mat I sip this cognac though to ease my brain from all pain and so that I react slow, in this world n-ggas, fast girls Hoes give up ass while these ho hold triggers on 'em Hold up old checker flag for 'em Chalk by the do not park sign deep, all these cold hearted n-ggas holding heat I'd rather blast before they a n-gga Tell 'em now boy, don't make me turn a killer
Yeah, into a Don't make me turn a killer Yeah, to a killer, yeh yeh
[J. Cole - 3] To who had love for me in the past Who woulda thought time would fly by so I remember in class we used to make believe it was draft day Swore that we would make the league, be Saturday morning had to the leaves, awww shit Watch how pile up like a mile up I was the blisters on my hand than I dial up my friend Skating ring is where we headed And if a disrespect, yes we ready to fight In retrospect that shit seemed At the time, the shit was Cause was all about your name You had to scrap any n-gga that would call you lame Ashamed no doubt, so many n-ggas go they brains out Snatched a n-gga chain and he got his name rolled out in Another in a cemetary Another young in the penetentiary And he don't a f-ck no missionary Rap visionary, paint a picture n-gga you what it is, I'm a dictionary I knew a n-gga threw his d-ck in every chick in every city that he went to hard like the rent do Till he met the wrong bitch, man just home ex-convict And he stay on that Thriller Shit, f-cking around with them
yeah, them killers around with them killers Say I'm a