03' Adolescence

Song 03' Adolescence
Artist J. Cole
Album 2014 Forest Hills Drive

Lyrics

[00:31.290] I grew up, a fuckin' screw up
[00:33.590] Tie my shoe up,
[00:34.350] wish they was newer
[00:35.480] Damn, need somethin' newer
[00:37.110] In love with the baddest girl in the city,
[00:39.440] I wish I knew her
[00:40.310] I wish I won't so shy,
[00:41.800] I wish I was a bit more fly
[00:43.540] I wish that I, could tell her
[00:45.670] how I really feel inside
[00:46.450] That I'm the perfect nigga for her,
[00:48.950] but then maybe that's a lie
[00:49.920] She like a certain type of nigga,
[00:51.600] and it's clear I'm not that guy
[00:53.240] Ball player, star player,
[00:54.620] I'm just watchin' from the side
[00:57.140] On the bench,
[00:57.540] cause my lack of confidence won't let me fly
[00:59.680] I ain't grow up with my father,
[01:01.410] I ain't thinkin' bout that now
[01:02.930] Fast forward four years or
[01:04.860] so from now I'll probably cry
[01:06.330] When I realize what I missed,
[01:07.810] but as of now my eyes are dry
[01:09.480] Cause I'm tryna stay alive,
[01:10.910] In the city where too many niggas die
[01:13.550] Dreamin' quiet tryna dodge a suit and tie
[01:15.740] Who am I? Aye who am I (Yeah)
[01:22.160] Things change, rearrange and so do I
[01:26.290] It ain't always for the better dawg I can't lie
[01:29.600] I get high cause the lows can be so cold
[01:32.850] I might bend a little bit but I don't fold
[01:36.010] One time for my mind and two for yours
[01:39.330] I got food for your
[01:41.270] thoughts to sooth your soul
[01:42.450] If you see my tears fall just let me be
[01:45.690] Move along, nothing to see
[01:47.630] I always did shit the hard way,
[01:49.610] my niggas slangin' in the hallway
[01:51.810] Burnt CD's and trees like this was broadway,
[01:55.220] Times Square
[01:56.200] Kept the dimes there in the locker
[01:58.200] Some Reggie Miller
[01:59.480] With more brown hairs than Chewbacca
[02:01.670] Whispers that he got it for the low low
[02:03.910] Sell a, dime for a dub,
[02:05.930] them white boys ain't know no better
[02:07.710] Besides,
[02:08.520] what's twenty dollars to a nigga like that?
[02:11.060] He tell his pops he need some lunch
[02:12.790] and he gon' get it right back
[02:14.170] I peep game
[02:15.230] Got home snatched my mama keychain,
[02:17.320] took her whip
[02:18.380] The appeal, too ill to refrain
[02:20.470] I hit the boulevard pull up
[02:21.800] to my nigga front door
[02:24.080] His mama at home,
[02:25.200] she still let em' hit the blunt though
[02:27.110] I told her hello
[02:28.230] and sat with my nigga and laughed
[02:30.360] And talked about
[02:31.430] how we gon' smash all the bitches in class
[02:33.440] I complimented
[02:34.300] how I see him out here getting his cash,
[02:36.710] and just asked
[02:37.980] "What a nigga gotta do to get that? Put me on"
[02:40.940] He just laughed when he seen I was sure
[02:43.170] 17 years breathing his demeanor said more
[02:46.400] He told me,
[02:48.140] "Nigga you know how you sound right now?
[02:49.720] If you wasn't my mans,
[02:52.310] I would think that you a clown right now
[02:53.030] Listen, you everything I wanna be
[02:55.550] that's why I fucks with you
[02:56.820] So how you looking up to me,
[02:58.640] when I look up to you
[03:00.220] You bout to go get a degree,
[03:02.170] I'ma be stuck with two choices
[03:04.000] Either graduate to weight
[03:05.420] or selling number two
[03:06.550] For what? A hundred bucks or two a week?
[03:09.040] Do you think that you would know
[03:10.940] what to do if you was me?
[03:12.470] I got, four brothers,
[03:14.450] one mother that don't love us
[03:16.740] If they ain't never want us
[03:18.470] why the fuck they never wore rubbers?"
[03:20.000] I felt ashamed to have ever complained
[03:22.300] about my lack of gear
[03:23.530] And thought about how far we done came
[03:25.570] From trailer park to a front yard
[03:27.510] with trees in the sky
[03:28.750] Thank you mama dry your eyes,
[03:30.740] there ain't no reason to cry
[03:31.900] You made a genius and I,
[03:33.220] ain't gon' take it for granted
[03:35.160] I ain't gon' settle for lesser,
[03:36.810] I ain't gon' take what they handed
[03:38.430] Nah I'm gon' take what they owe me
[03:39.950] and show you that I can fly
[03:41.630] And show ol' girl what she missing
[03:43.260] The illest nigga alive
[03:44.990] Aye who am I?
[03:46.100] Things change, rearrange and so do I
[03:48.800] It ain't always for the better dawg I can't lie
[03:52.060] I get high cause the lows can be so cold
[03:55.370] I might bend a little bit but I don't fold
[03:59.080] One time for my mind and two for yours
[04:02.090] I got food for your thoughts to sooth your soul
[04:04.950] If you see my tears fall just let me be
[04:08.400] Move along, nothing to see
[04:10.140] I never felt better