[00:02.080]Ay, lemme kick it to you right quick man
[00:06.100]Not on some gangsta shit man on some real shit
[00:09.020]Anybody who been through the same thing
[00:10.440]I'm sure you feel the same way
[00:14.830]Ohh (hey)
[00:16.240]I've been travelin on this road too long (too long)
[00:19.520]Just tryin find my way back home (back home)
[00:23.370]But the old me's dead and gone
[00:26.200]Dead and Gone
[00:28.940]And Ohh... (hey)
[00:30.280]I've been travelin on this road too long (too long)
[00:33.850]Just tryin find my way back home (back home)
[00:37.630]But the old me's dead and gone,
[00:40.330]Dead and Gone, dead and...
[00:43.310]Ever had one of them days wish you would have stayed home
[00:44.860]Run into a group of niggas who gettin' their hate on
[00:46.540]You walk by, they get wrong
[00:48.460]You reply then shit get blown
[00:50.240]Way out of proportion way bad discussion
[00:52.100]Just you against them, pick one then rush them
[00:53.660]Figure you get jumped here that's next
[00:55.300]They don't wanna stop there now they bustin'
[00:57.290]Now you gushin', ambulance rushin'
[00:58.770]You to the hospital with a bad concussion
[01:00.840]Plus you hit four times but it hit yo spine
[01:02.530]Paralyzed waist down and ya wheelchair bound
[01:04.350]Never mind that now you lucky to be alive
[01:05.910]Just thinkin' it all started fussin' wit three guys
[01:07.920]Nigga pride in the way but your pride is the way you can fuck
[01:10.100]Around get shot down any day
[01:11.480]Niggas die everyday, all little bullshit
[01:12.410]Dope money, dice games, ordinary hood shit
[01:15.240]Could this be cuz of hip-hop music
[01:16.870]Or did the ones with the good sense not use it?
[01:18.650]Usually niggas don't know what to do when they back against the wall
[01:21.190]So they just start shootin'
[01:22.260]For red or for blue or for blow I guess
[01:23.850]From Bankhead at the old projects
[01:25.690]No more stress, now I'm straight
[01:27.570]Now I get it, now I take time to think Before I make mistakes just for my family stake
[01:32.920]That part of me left yesterday
[01:34.640]The heart of me is strong today
[01:36.440]No regrets I'm blessed to say the old me dead and gone away
[01:40.840]Ohh (hey)
[01:41.510]I've been travelin on this road too long (too long)
[01:44.920]Just tryin find my way back home (back home)
[01:48.690]But the old me's dead and gone
[01:51.540]Dead and Gone
[01:54.040]And Ohh... (hey)
[01:55.760]I've been travelin on this road too long (too long)
[01:59.200]Just tryin find my way back home (back home)
[02:02.960]But the old me's dead and gone
[02:05.790]Dead and Gone, dead and...
[02:08.520]I ain't neva been scared, I live through tragic
[02:09.880]Situations could been dead lookin' back at it
[02:11.900]Most of that shit didn't even have to happen
[02:13.800]But you don't think about it when you out there trappin'
[02:15.520]In the apartments hangin', smokin' and rappin'
[02:17.320]Niggas start shit next thing we know we cappin'
[02:19.230]Get locked up then didn't even get mad
[02:20.830]Now I think about that what a life I had
[02:22.670]Most of that shit look back just laugh
[02:24.370]Some shit still look back get sad
[02:26.090]Thinkin' my home boy still be around
[02:27.920]Had I not hit the nigga in the mouth that time
[02:29.780]I won that fight I lost that war
[02:31.150]I could still see my nigga walkin' out that door
[02:33.280]Who would of thought I'd never see Philant no more
[02:35.070]Got enough dead homies I don't want no more
[02:36.810]Cuz a nigga his jump cost me more
[02:38.610]I'd a took that ass whoopin' out for sure
[02:40.350]Now think before I risk my life
[02:42.130]Take them chances to get my stripes
[02:43.940]A nigga put his hands on me alright
[02:45.650]Otherwise stand there talk shit all night
[02:47.520]Cuz I hit you and you sue me
[02:49.240]I shoot you get locked up poor me
[02:51.010]No more stress now I'm straight
[02:53.000]Now I get it now I take time to think Before I make mistake just for my family stake
[02:58.190]That part of me left yesterday
[02:59.940]The heart of me is strong today
[03:01.820]No regrets I'm blessed to say the old me dead and gone away
[03:05.700]Ohh (hey)
[03:06.710]I've been travelin on this road too long (too long)
[03:10.180]Just tryin find my way back home (back home)
[03:14.010]But the old me's dead and gone
[03:16.800]Dead and Gone
[03:19.580]And Ohh (hey)
[03:21.090]I've been travelin on this road too long (too long)
[03:24.510]Just tryin find my way back home (back home)
[03:28.300]But the old me's dead and gone
[03:31.030]Dead and Gone
[03:34.320]I turn my head to the east I don't see nobody by my side
[03:37.680]I turn my head to the west, still nobody in sight
[03:41.120]So I turn my head to the north swallow that pill that they call pride
[03:44.680]That old me dead and gone but the new me will be alright
[03:48.320]I turn my head to the east I don't see nobody by my side
[03:51.820]I turn my head to the west still nobody in sight
[03:55.300]So I turn my head to the north swallow that pill that they call pride
[03:58.760]That old me dead and gone but the new me will be alright, cause
[04:02.450]Ohh (hey)
[04:03.670]I've been travelin on this road too long (too long)
[04:07.540]Just tryin find my way back home (back home)
[04:11.060]But the old me's dead and gone
[04:13.830]Dead and Gone
[04:16.430]And Ohh... (hey)
[04:18.040]I've been travelin on this road too long (too long)
[04:21.740]Just tryin find my way back home (back home)
[04:25.250]But the old me's dead and gone
[04:28.020]Dead and Gone, dead and...