Taken for granted

You don't know what you got
Until it's gone
I taken everything for granted
My god
You don't know what you got
Until it's gone
I taken everything for granted...

Nipsey hustle
Kobe Bryant
Asking why god
You do that
Time is undefeated one day I'll fall
Every breath I take I make it count
Finding a way I can feed the mouths
Fam gotta eat no way around
Put my heart on the beat
In the booth for hours
Conscious thoughts for conscious minds
Working eight to five at a job I hate
Helps pay the bills but I'm asking James
How do you feel one day you're famous
The writing paid off but you lost your patience
Thank you to god I found my way
I know it gets hard never lose your faith
Walk with your scars don't be afraid
Be who you are
Not just a slave
If it don't feel right just walk away
Every day I write hope guides my way
Changed my life when I read this page
Reached new heights with PROTEGE
Check the rhymes I been a great
Studied the legends I'm their protégé
I'll say it three times so you know the name
PROTEGE lives in la
In the city of the rose
Every minute learning how to grow
Mind, body and the soul
And if ya vibing with it let me know
Always knew i bring hope
Stay focused keep loved one close
Cole told me love yours oh
And we're living in a world so cold
Got me thinking

You don't know what you got
Until it's gone
I taken everything for granted
You don't know what you got
Until it's gone
I taken everything for granted
You don't know what you got
Until it's gone
I taken everything for granted
My god
You don't know what you got
Until it's gone
I taken everything for granted
My god.

Still on a mission to find you James
Stopped all the drinking
Let go of pain
All my life inside this page
Don't wait till you die to make the change
Own worst critic I'm so hard on myself
Can't keep drinking or living in hell
Depression is killing our mental health
But no one cares cuz that stuff don't sell
Roll yo blunts and smoke yo weed
Pour yo drank and sip yo cup
Everybody move to the back of the bus
Reunited build the trust remind them of love
Only drug I need is the one we call love
All I want is peace in the mind
But I see people dying so I pray every night
Yeah I pray every night
When you living in the west
Color trippin so you bes "protect ya neck"
There's a war outside no man is safe from
Pray my time is worth saving
Hope my rhymes teaches them young
Guide they life and lead them to love
Cuz all my life I wasn't enough
Till I grabbed the mic and flowed you my lyrics
Back in 91'
That was new beginnings
Life had just begun in this time I'm livin
Soaked in the sun as our time diminished
There's no need to run when your hearts all in it
Remember you was young
No one noticed us
It wasn't till the bucks
That they showed us love
I was raised better
Always showing love
Hoping in the end it can last forever...