Lyrics On This Way (feat. The Game & Iyla).lrc Joyner Lucas
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[ar: Joyner Lucas]
[al: Evolution]
[ti: On This Way (feat. The Game & Iyla)]
[length: 04:39]
[00:00.07]And I think I been countin’ my hardest days
[00:03.89]Lord, won’t you save me? Oh
[00:08.78]You know what I’ve been prayin’ for
[00:11.32]And I never thought I’d see this day, yeah
[00:16.62]
[00:18.83]I gotta make it change
[00:22.88]And I think I been countin’ my hardest days
[00:25.28]Uh, writin’ plans to make a new report (yeah)
[00:28.30]Grind hard and turn my basement to a jewelry store
[00:31.10]If you don’t do it for your kids, then who you do it for?
[00:33.76]I’m tryna read and learn some shit I never knew before
[00:36.33]Focused on investments (yeah)
[00:37.96]Build me up some new resorts
[00:39.43]We can manifest it (word)
[00:40.75]You’d rather hit the Louis store
[00:42.15]Wastin’ all your blessings
[00:43.38]Carе about the ones who doubt you
[00:45.37]Just to impress somе hoes who never gave a fuck about you
[00:47.96]Just what I discovered
[00:49.27]Never believed in family, that word is really a cover
[00:52.16]Just a title that have the advantage to keep you under (oh, yeah)
[00:55.12]I got niggas I consider brothers more than my brothers
[00:57.91]So watch it, you show your colors
[00:59.35]We livin’ in a world where prison walls is depravation (yeah)
[01:02.54]Livin’ in a world where snitchin’ calls for celebration (yeah)
[01:05.29]Livin’ in a world where niggas crawl and segregation
[01:07.85]Rainy nights and desperation
[01:09.29]Pray we fight the legislation
[01:10.92]Protest until we flatline, paralyzed (uh)
[01:13.88]They throwin’ stones at my Black Lives Matter signs (oh)
[01:17.03]Made a change but we still not satisfied
[01:19.28]I can’t smile half the time I’m still (I’m still)
[01:21.45]I’m still waitin’, sittin’ plottin’ on the couch (word)
[01:24.03]’Cause I know that I ain’t safe
[01:25.17]When all these cops on the prowl (yeah)
[01:26.87]Tryna think of other ways, but we ain’t got no other route
[01:29.65]I’m startin’ to understand that shit that Pac was talkin’ ’bout (word)
[01:32.56]And I think I been countin’ my hardest days
[01:36.46]Lord, won’t you save me? Oh
[01:41.35]You know what I’ve been prayin’ for (uh, uh, uh)
[01:43.96]And I never thought I’d see this day (uh, uh, uh) yeah
[01:51.52]I gotta make it change
[01:55.59]And I think I been countin’ my hardest days
[01:59.63]Lord, won’t you save me? Oh
[02:04.55]You know what I’ve been prayin’ for
[02:07.14]And I never thought I’d see this day, yeah
[02:14.28]I gotta make it change
[02:18.73]And I think I been countin’ my
[02:20.82]Look, time is money and the clock tickin’
[02:23.65]I teach my son love and respect, that’s a God given (word)
[02:26.60]My sperm donor never been shit, just a flop
[02:28.68]Listen, if it wasn’t for my step-pops
[02:30.67]I’d prolly turn out different (facts)
[02:32.52]Probably be in a cell doin’ a life sentence (facts)
[02:35.43]Probably have 20 baby mamas and nine bitches (facts)
[02:38.02]Probably grow up misguided, twisted inside the system
[02:40.81]Dropped out and failed ’cause nobody listen to my admission (yeah)
[02:44.19]Sick of gettin’ in fights with niggas less educated
[02:46.71]Sick of gettin’ advice from niggas who never made it (ooh)
[02:49.83]Sick of bein’ polite to people with lesser patience
[02:52.27]Oftentimes, I wonder where I would be if I never made it
[02:55.45]The hatin’ always comes from niggas that wish
[02:57.32]They had all your blessings or the clout (true)
[02:59.32]And bad vibes forever, but I’m destined on this route (yeah)
[03:02.18]I’m startin’ to understand that shit that X was talkin’ ’bout (word)
[03:05.09]And I think I been countin’ my-
[03:06.80]Worst thing comes to worst
[03:08.13]I’ll fuckin’ die a tragic death or some shit
[03:10.66]And I’m not able to see out my dreams
[03:14.46]I at least wanna know that the kids perceive my message
[03:20.59]And were able to make something of themselves
[03:22.52]And able to take my message and use it
[03:25.18]And turn it into somethin’ positive
[03:26.88]And to, to at least have a good life
[03:29.56]If it ain’t black on, I’m prolly gon’ use it to chop crack on
[03:32.73]Hard white for all them hard nights I had my back on
[03:35.43]Roach-infested carpet, tip-toe in my mother’s room
[03:37.94]See a dresser and felt no pressure when takin’ a 20 off it
[03:41.17]Compton like a closed coffin
[03:42.45]We walkin’ to school coughin’
[03:43.89]Often high off the gun smoke
[03:45.58]Boston had at the front door
[03:46.93]Cookin’ class, I’m J-Hov
[03:48.56]Rock it up on they stove
[03:49.80]Me and my teacher goin’ back and forth
[03:51.37]Like No Name and J. Cole
[03:52.88]You said I would never be what?
[03:54.21]I wouldn’t amount to what?
[03:55.57]Now you in this Trader Joe’s same lines, sayin’, “Wassup?” (oh)
[03:58.30]Talkin’ ’bout like how you like my songs, not knowin’ it was me
[04:01.25]Security had me in a headlock and I told you I couldn’t breathe
[04:04.14]Now it’s Black Lives Matter and white letters on your shirt
[04:07.15]Now how many black lives did you help, or did you hurt?
[04:09.97]Did you handicap, block, push to excel or did you hinder?
[04:13.07]Since hindsight’s 2020, I guess you don’t remember
[04:15.54]Now you with your mixed child, havin’ all these mixed feelings
[04:18.67]But do your black husband know you tried to burn down our village?
[04:21.37]But never mind, from the line, that’s for y’all to figure out
[04:24.28]Just know that boy who wasn’t shit bailed all his niggas out
[04:27.13]And it’s my black queen, I kiss her on her black lips
[04:30.13]And she rock Off-White ’cause she support black shit
[04:33.18]And I’m blacker than a Steeler helmet or a Spike Lee flick
[04:35.86]Black like the pick stuck in the afro of Kaepernick
[04:37.46]Year of Release: 2020