[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 they find out it was me momma This may be the time you see me free ma Don't spend it You did your best, me I was blessed, know you were stressed To me out the streets, me ducking police Tryin' not to make a 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 playing with fire, somehoe I never You tried to set me straight, I never permed You tried to show me but somehow I never turned in a cloud of marijuana, are you sane dummy Dry face mommy, your not to blame for me See I'm a man, I take whatever came for me At times I 'bout my father Would it for me if he was around? Would I still be running round the lowlife's 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 mean to the n-gga momma But done is done I'm on the run, I live my life a movie now it's way too realer Who woulda thought your baby boy grew up to be a killer
Yeh, now I'm a Guess I'm a got me in here with the killers Yeah I the killers
[J. - Verse 2] I wonder in store for me been stressing, pray for blessings, hope that there's more for me Than a simple life N-ggas that I used to hoop is doing triple life Gave up the jump on the john shot Who woulda thought I to block this n-ggas lay ups Now he's in a cell up I you well, stay up Like life can make a n-gga fold like a laundry mat I sip this though to ease my brain from all this pain and so that I slow, in this fast world Slow n-ggas, girls Hoes give up ass while these ho hold triggers on 'em Hold up that old checker for 'em Chalk lines by the do not park It's deep, all cold hearted n-ggas holding heat I'd rather blast before they a n-gga Tell 'em now boy, make me turn into a killer
Yeah, a killer Don't make me turn into a Yeah, to a killer, yeh yeh
[J. - Verse 3] To who had love for me in the past Who woulda thought time fly by so fast I remember in class we used to make believe Like it was day Swore that we make the league, be rich morning had to rake the leaves, awww shit Watch how they up Seem a mile up I was the on my hand than I dial up my best friend Skating is where we headed tonight And if a n-gga disrespect, yes we to fight In retrospect that seemed petty At the time, the shit was Cause life was all your name You had to scrap with any that would call you lame Ashamed no doubt, so many n-ggas go brains blown out Snatched a n-gga chain and he got his name out in obituaries Another in a cemetary young n-gga in the penetentiary And he don't give a no missionary Rap visionary, paint a picture pictionary Tell you what it is, I'm a I a n-gga that threw his d-ck in every chick in every city that he went to Went hard like the do Till he met the wrong bitch, man just home ex-convict And he stay on with Thriller Shit, f-cking with them killers
yeah, with killers F-cking around them killers Say I'm a