Growing Young

Be a man John be a man
Used to get them Marlboros for dad
It made me feel grown
Didn't know the problems he had
But he was real gone
When he had the bottle in hand
He was just dead wrong

Promised that I would never grow up and be him
But I never grew up at all
And now I'm womanizing and cheatin, drinkin heavily in the pm
Havin myself a monsters ball, just like my pa

My girl lookin the same way my mom did
Smeared make up tears under her eyeleids
Generations of havin a down ass chick
But we always end up fuckin up that shit

Pointin fingers at all of my male figures
The only thing gettin bigger is makin bout six figures
And everybody just shut up, when I put it on my tab
Ain't it sad when a visa's the only credit you have, huh

But that's just John and that's how he is
That's the only way people come into my defense
But that's just wrong but that's how it is
And it be helpin me get away with alot of shit

Alotta shit, alotta shit, I wish somebody really gave me a whole of shit
But they on the dick, yea they on my dick,
now my ego is getting bigger than moby dick

They see the videos, they see the hero
They take a mess and paint a mural
Edit out the a- hole put in the b-roll
Render the clips, and you got pure gold

Shoutout to B tho, that's mi amigo,
kept me in check when I was actin like a devo
When I was steve o, he made me Steve Jobs,
im a ceo, now look at me ma

Now look at me ma, I'm on my grown shit,
when I mean grown I mean takin care of my own shit,
now look at me pa, this is some grown shit,
now what you taught me forget it I flipped the whole script,
now look at me girl I'm on grown shit,
what im sayin I mean it my word is golden,
everything I'm sayin you're probably thinkin no shit,
I shoulda known this already, but I'm ready now