ays lemme give it to you man
not on some gansta shit , but on some real shit
anyone who had been through the same thing
im sure you feel the same way


(Justin Timberlake):

Ooooooo

I've been travelin

On this road too long

Just trying to find

My way back home

The old me


Is dead and gone

Dead and gone

Ooooooo

I've been travelin

On this road to long

Just trying to find

My way back home

The old me

Is dead and gone


Dead and gone



(T.I.)

Ever had one of dem days

U wish woulda stayed home

Run into a group of niggas

Getting they hate on

U walk by

They get wrong


U reply

Then shit get blown

Way outta proportion

Way past discussion

Just u against them,

Pick one then rush em

Figure u get your hair?

That next

They don't wanna stop


There now they bussin

Now u gushin, ambulance

Rushin u to the hospital

With a bad concussion

Plus ya hit 4 times

Plus it hit ya

Spine paralyzed waist down

Now ya wheel chair bound

Nevermind that now


U lucky to be alive,

Just think it all started u

Fussin with 3 guys

Now ya pride in the way

But ya pride is the way u

Could fuck around

Get shot die anyday

Niggas die

Every day all over


Bull shit dope money dice

Game ordinary hood shit

Could this be

Cuz of hip hop music

Or did the ones

With the good sense

Not use it

Usually niggas

Don't kno what to do


When their back

Against the wall

So they just start shootin

For red or for blue

Or for blo I guess,

From Bankhead

Or from your projects

No more stress,

Now I'm straight,


Now I get it now I take

Time to think,

Before I make mistakes

Just for my familys sake

That part of me left yesterday

The heart of me is strong today

No regrets I'm blessed to say

The old me dead and gone away.




(Chorus)



(T.I.)

I aint never been scared,

I lived through tragedy

Situation coulda been dead

Lookin back at it

Most of that shit

Didn't even have to happen


But u don't think about it

When u out there trappin

In apartments hangin

Smokin and rappin

Niggas start shit didn't

Next thing ya kno we cappin

Get locked up

Then didn't even get mad

Now think about damn


What a life I had

Most of that shit

Look back just laugh

Some shit

Still look back just sad

Maybe my homboy

Till be around

Had I not

Hit the nigga


In the mouth that time

I won that fight, I lost that war

I can still see my nigga

Walkin out that door

Whoda thought I'd never see

Philant no more

Got enough dead homies

I don't want no more

Cost a nigga his job,


Cost me more

Ida took that ass-whoopin

Now for sure

Now think before I risk my life

Take them chances to get my stripe

A nigga put his hands on me alright

Otherwise stand there

Talk shit all night

Cuz I hit you, you sue me,


I shoot you, get locked up, who me?

No more stress, now I'm straight,

Now I get it now I take

Time to think

Before I make mistakes

Just for my familys sake

That part of me left yesterday

The heart of me is strong today

No regrets I'm blessed to say


The old me dead and gone away.



(Chorus)



(J.T.)

I turn my head to the east

I don't see nobody by my side

I turn my head to the west

Still nobody in sight

So I turn my head to the north,


Swallow that pill

That they call pride

The old me is dead and gone,

The new me will be alright

I turn my head to the east

I don't see nobody by my side

I turn my head to the west

Still nobody in sight

So I turn my head to the north,


Swallow that pill

That they call pride

The old me is dead and gone,

The new me will be alright



(Chorus)






Corrected by: cAnDy_4eVa, lileet