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Now and later


I wish I could
I wish I could 
N if I got the gift from God or a curse from Satan 
then with it I would
 
But I can't right now
Don't have a plan right now
Still growing up but the fam need me to be a man right now
But I'm not a man right now 
not successful enough to be the man right now
 
I don't understand it how 
Everyone's complacent now
Everyone's lazy now
N me I feel like how good I do in school determines 
the fams faith that we make it out
 
Right now we're not makin it out
I'm too focused on making out 
Gettin girls to say take me out
Since no body does I guess we're stuck here. For now
 
So much stress wish some body would take me out
Either 9 roses or a 9 shots from a 9right now
Can't stand up, don't have a spine right now
Can't stand up, don't have a spine right now
 
To say there's no denyin right now
If we stay here we're gonna die without
Seeing the light before we die somehow 
And if that's not ya goal then u should die right now
 
 I'm in a place of knowledge not knowing who I am
But it's got me thinkin too much of how to be the man
Not a man but the man
The kind Uncle Sam claims he'll understand
 
But the price for all the riches is my soul 
But aye man, I'd rather be a man than yes man
 
Right now I just want to be alone
That's the road we live to die for
That road that leads to that throne
Only to find and empty heart and a crown of thorns
 
I don't want to be alone 
I'll die that way but in life i don't have to be that way
I can make friends when I think I'm on my own
To grab my hand as I grab my fams n say
 
Just hold on we're going Home
 
 
 
 
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