[J. Cole - 1] I just killed a man My body still trembling can you feel my Don't shed no tears, it won't be long before they out it was me momma This may be the last you see me free ma spend it cryin' You did your best, me I was blessed, know you were tryin' To keep me out the streets, me police not to make a peek to wake you up out your sleep A and high fool Skip a class, high school I know you taught me better, somehow I never Said I was with fire, somehoe I never burned You tried to set me straight, somehow I never You tried to show me right but I never turned Lost in a cloud of marijuana, are you sane Dry face mommy, your not to blame for me See I'm a man, I gotta take whatever for me At I wonder 'bout my father Would it for me if he was around? Would I still be running round with the Bum ass no jobs, no life Seen them n-ggas for no price I watched his life flash before his eyes a strobe light I pulled the momma Tryna be hard, I aint to kill the n-gga momma But what's done is I'm on the run, I my life like a movie now it's way too realer Who thought your baby boy woulda grew up to be a killer
Yeh, now I'm a I'm a killer They got me in here with the Yeah I mean the
[J. Cole - 2] I wonder in store for me Lately been stressing, pray for blessings, hope that there's for me Than just a life N-ggas that I used to hoop with is triple life up the jump shot Work on the john Who woulda thought I used to block n-ggas lay ups Now he's in a cell up I you well, stay up insomniacs This can make a n-gga fold like a laundry mat I sip this cognac though to ease my brain from all this and so that I slow, in this fast world Slow n-ggas, fast give up ass while these ho n-ggas hold triggers on 'em Hold up old checker flag for 'em Chalk lines by the do not park It's deep, all these cold hearted n-ggas heat I'd rather blast before steal a n-gga 'em now boy, don't make me turn into a killer
Yeah, into a make me turn into 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 back in class we used to believe Like it was day Swore that we would the league, be rich Saturday morning had to rake the leaves, awww Watch how they up Seem a mile up I was the blisters on my hand I dial up my best friend Skating is where we headed tonight And if a n-gga disrespect, yes we ready to In retrospect that shit petty At the time, the shit was life was all about your name You had to scrap any n-gga that would call you lame Ashamed no doubt, so many go they brains blown out Snatched a n-gga chain and he got his name rolled out in Another in a cemetary Another n-gga in the penetentiary And he don't a f-ck no missionary Rap visionary, paint a picture pictionary Tell you what it is, I'm a I knew a n-gga that threw his d-ck in every chick in every city that he to Went like the rent do he met the wrong bitch, man just came home ex-convict And he stay on with that Shit, f-cking around them killers
yeah, with them F-cking with them killers Say I'm a