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ay let me kick it to you right quick, man that on some gangsta man, on some real anybody done been through the same thing, i'm sure you feel the same way big phil this for you pimping
[ch] oh (eyyy) i've been travellin on this road too long (too long) just tryna find my way back home (back home) the old me is dead and gone, dead and gone and oh (eyyy) i've been travellin' on this road too long (too long) just tryna find my way back home (back home) the old me is dead and gone, dead and gone, dead and gone
v1 ever had one of them days wish would've stayed home run into a group of niggas who gettin' they hate on you walk by they get wrong you reply then get blown way outta proportion way past discussion just you against them, pick one then rush 'em figure you'll get jumped, hell that's nothing they don't wanna stop there now they bussin' now you gushing, ambulance rushing you to the hospital with a bad concussion plus ya hit 4 times plus it hit ya spine paralyzed waist down now ya wheel chair bound nevermind that now you lucky to be alive just think it all started you fussing with 3 guys now ya pride in the way, but ya pride is the way you could around, get shot, die anyday niggas die everyday all over bull, dope money, dice game, ordinary hood could this be 'cos of hip hop music? or did the ones with the good sense not use it? usually niggas don't know what to do when their back against the wall so they just start shootin for red or for blue or for blo i guess from bankhead 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
ch v2 i ain't never been scared, i lived through tragedy situation could've been dead lookin' back at it most of that didn't even have to happen but you don't think about it when you out there trappin' in apartments, hangin', smokin', and rappin' niggas start, next thing ya know we capping get locked up then didn't even get mad now think about what a life I had most of that, look back, just laugh some still look back get sad maybe my homboy still be around had i not hit the nigga in the mouth that time i won that fight i lost that war i can still see my nigga walkin' 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 nigga his job cost me more i'd took that ass-whooping now for sure now think before i risk my life take them chances to get my stripe a nigga put his hands on me alright otherwise stand there talk all night cos i hit you, you sue me, i shoot you, get 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 im blessed to say the old me dead and gone away
ch hook 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 no