Don't Let Go

When I was 16 thought by now that I woulda made it
Now look at my life and I wonder if imma make it
I told everybody by now I'd be tasting greatness
Now I see they faces its hard for me to just face it
And I try to talk to God and he tell me that it takes patience but it's hard
To sit here waiting when mama got rent need paying
Hard to help somebody when you the one that need saving
So girl I need your hug and your embrace
That's why it's hard to let go
I give my heart and my soul
The world done turned yo Boy cold
colder than the wind and the snow
Walking down this yellow brick road
Lost and I can't find my way home
my shoes just fall apart at the sole
Girl I need your heart don't let go
Don't let go bae

I got tired of everyone telling me what I oughtta be
Telling me i can't and then telling me what I gotta be
And it be all the people the ones who spose to be proud of me
Little did they know I'm the ticket I'm talking lottery
That's cause I'm the greatest you know that I say it audibly
Imma be the one who gone take my people out poverty
But they see that I'm different be treating me like an oddity
yall too busy focusing on stopping me

It's hard to let go
I give my heart and my soul
The world done turned yo Boy cold
colder than the wind and the snow
Walking down this yellow brick road
Lost and I can't find my way home
my shoes just fall apart at the sole
Girl I need your heart don't let go
Don't let go bae

Last night I called my mama I told her that we gone make
I talked to my daughter I told her that we gone make it
Shout out to the guys know I told em that we gone make it
Shout out Doris drive just a minute and we gone make it
Shout out to MZ know that Nigga is something dangerous
Told him when I make it promise that I ain't changing
Only thing that change is I get more bold and more flagrant
I spit it from the heart I don't do this for entertainment
No I do this for my niggas who stuck working night and dayshift
Had to get it out the mud just to eat like a pig in blanket
Maybe get it off the muscle don't stretch and you end up straining
And When you tell em bout your struggle they tell you to quit complaining
would hate to burst your bubble it pop cause I gotta bang it
Poke my chest out when I walk so nobody knows I'm in pain
You know it hurts when you just lock all these thoughts up inside your brain but
They don't listen when I talk that's why i sang that
It gets hard to let go
I give my heart and my soul
The world done turned yo Boy cold
colder than the wind and the snow
Walking down this yellow brick road
Lost and I can't find my way home
my shoes just fall apart at the sole
Girl I need your heart don't let go
Don't let go bae