T.I.

Justin Timberlake

Ay, lemme kick it to you

right quick man

Not on some gangsta

s**t man

on some real s**t

Anybody done been

through the same thing

I'm sure you feel

the same way

Oh hey, I've been

travellin' on this road

too long

Just tryna find

my way back home

the old me's

dead and gone

dead and gone

Oh hey, I've been

travellin' on this road

too long

Just tryna find

my way back home

the old me's

dead and gone

dead and gone

Ever had one of them

days wish you would

have stayed home

Run into a group

of n****s who

gettin' their hate on

You walk by

they get wrong

you reply then

s**t get blown

Way out of proportion

way past discussion

just you against them

pick one then rush them

Figure you get jumped

here that's next

they don't wanna stop

there now they bustin'

Now you gushin'

ambulance rushin'

you to the hospital

with a bad concussion

Plus you hit four times

but it hit your spine

paralyzed waist down

now ya wheelchair bound

Never mind that now

you lucky to be alive

just thinkin' it all started

fussin' wit three guys

N***a pride in the way

but your pride is the way

you can f**k around

get shot down any day

n****s die everyday

All little bulls**t

dope money, dice games,

ordinary hood s**t

could this be cuz

of hip-hop music

Or did the ones with the

good sense not use it?

Usually n****s don't

know what to do

when their back

against the wall

So they just start

shootin' for red or

for blue or for

blow I guess

From Bankhead

at the old 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 family's 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

Oh hey, I've been

travellin' on this road

too long

Just tryna find my

way back home

the old me's

dead and gone

dead and gone

Oh hey, I've been

travellin' on this road

too long

Just tryna find my

way back home

the old me's

dead and gone

dead and gone

I ain't neva been scared

I live through tragic

situations could been

dead lookin' back at it

Most of that s**t didn't

even have to happen

But you don't think

about it when you

out there trappin' in

the apartments hangin'

Smokin' and rappin'

n****s start s**t

next thing we know

we cappin'

Get locked up then

didn't even get mad

now I think about that

what a life I had

Most of that s**t look

back just laugh

some s**t still

look back get sad

Thinkin' my home boy

still be around

had I not hit the n***a

in the mouth that time

I won that fight

I lost that war

I could still see

my n***a walkin'

out that door

Man who'd of thought

I'd never see

Philant no more

got enough dead homies

I don't want no more

Cuz a n***a his jump

cost me more

I'd a took that a*s

whoopin' out for sure

Now think before

I risk my life

take them chances

to get my stripes

A n***a put his

hands on me alright

otherwise stand there

talk s**t all night

Cuz I hit you

and you sue me

I shoot you get locked up

poor 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 family's 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

Oh hey, I've been

travellin' on this road

too long

Just tryna find my

way back home

the old me's

dead and gone

dead and gone

Oh hey, I've been

travellin' on this road

too long

Just tryna find my

way back home

the old me's

dead and gone

dead and gone

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

That old me's

dead and gone

but 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

That old me's

dead and gone

but the new me

will be alright, 'cause

Oh hey, I've been

travellin' on this road

too long

Just tryna find my

way back home

the old me's

dead and gone

dead and gone

Oh hey, I've been

travellin' on this road

too long

Just tryna find my

way back home

The old me's

dead and gone

dead and gone

yea yea