Symptom Addict

Really out here recorinding
With this fucking hole in my pants
But it's the only pair of pants I got right now that I can wear to work
People all seeing my legs and shit

There's nothing different niggas always on a money mission
Niggas greedy they all suffer from the same symptoms
Sometimes I notice all the switches in the ways I'm living
Like my provisions ain't enough I feel there's something missing
I throw these lines and hope they catch you like I've gone fishing
Snatching, grabbing for the bag because my hands been itching
A tickle in my throat from the words I'm spitting
While the pendulum swings I'm watching time ticking

My parents taught me I'd do anything that I envision
The weird jock and I got A's in essays all in English
Scholarships to play ball that's how I went to college
Never thought that period would be the end of sentence
Lost myself and I came back a changed man
Lost some people but I still got the same friends
Work for better, see the picture out the frame man
Just to one day drop the top off a Maybach
Learned from sports you gotta stick to your game plan
Learned from Nipsey get some assets, maybe gain land
The chains and the whips ain't where the fame at
Just put some plaques on the wall, they can't take that
Hard work and the pain, they can't fake that
Broken promises you wish that you could take back
Expectations on the rise and you stayed flat
Judgments coming, not a soul can escape that

There's nothing different niggas always on a money mission
Niggas greedy they all suffer from the same symptoms
Sometimes I notice all the switches in the ways I'm living
Like my provisions ain't enough I feel there's something missing
I suffer in silence so you don't worry bout me
Trying to keep a flame with sparks all around me
While I'm sitting in the rain and the dark surrounds me
I became my own lighter, that's the story about me

And soon it's time to face the demons inside me
With the progress that I'm making, know some people won't like me
I've seen there's people rooting for me that I don't even know
Hoping one day in the future we meet up at a show
This morning I went to work and saw the mountains with snow
I was caught up in its beauty, almost swerved off the road
Sometimes it just takes a storm for the beauty to show
And even when the sun shines there's still a chance that you choke, huh
Been feeling froggy taking leaps 'fore I croak
Niggas try to bring me down but I'm not caught in they slopes
Some people try to be friends, it's all pretend it's a hoax
Cause they don't see the vision and all I got is hope
All this fire I just pray it stays stoked
All this flow I just pray I stay afloat
Gotta be careful who I let onto my boat
Niggas hiding who they are under their cloaks

There's nothing different niggas always on a money mission
Niggas greedy they all suffer from the same symptoms
Sometimes I notice all the switches in the ways I'm living
Like my provisions ain't enough I feel there's something missing
Used to listen to The Beatles on an old cassette
Now I'm looking at the future wanting what comes next
Dream of Nikes, Jordans, apparel higher end
Make a lot of money and retire then
There's nothing different niggas always on a money mission
Niggas greedy they all suffer from the same symptoms
Sometimes I notice all the switches in the ways I'm living
Like my provisions ain't enough I feel there's something missing
I chose to be a leader instead of always lead
I chose to give my life, I chose to bleed instead
I gave my life a meaning, I mean what I said
If there's no meaning then it's just a means to an end