Being a nigga - Infinity The Ghetto

[ti:Do Tell]
[ar:Joe Budden]
[al:Padded Room]
[by: ]
[00:01.00]Joe Budden - Do Tell
[00:06.00]LRC by lzh ,from jiangxi pingxiang
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[00:17.11]Tell my mother I'm sorry, I never meant to hurt her
[00:20.59]& Even when I did I never meant to take it further
[00:23.66]Tell my father I love him, dot dot excetera
[00:26.47]He used to give me advice like a plethora
[00:29.39]I tried to find myself but I was your replica
[00:32.35]I mean I only tried to be what you never was
[00:35.15]Tell my older brother I'm bad at being a brother
[00:37.99]I know I never told you just how highly I think of ya
[00:40.74]Tell my grandmother she always been a friend to me
[00:43.84]I would have visited more if I wasn't into me
[00:46.92]Tell Trey I think his mother is an asshole
[00:49.79]When you get older you might understand how that go's
[00:52.66]Tell the hood I left, not for greed or wealth
[00:55.43]I did it for my own sanity & keep my health
[00:58.29]I tried to bring a few with me, hoping we could cash in
[01:01.37]But all they said is that I aint do it in a timely fashion
[01:04.15]Tell... music she saved me when shit was adverse
[01:07.35]My first love I give my life so she can have hers
[01:10.21]Tell my friends, each one, they taught me how to be one
[01:13.19]I owe them part of everything I've become
[01:16.29]Tell fame I aint want it, nah I'll keep it a hunnid
[01:19.05]I try my best to go and get it but the nigga fronted
[01:21.94]SO! I lie dormant, living through torment
[01:25.15]Tell cops I've got warrents I don't warrent
[01:27.92]Tell the therapist \"look I never thought I'd get here\"
[01:30.77]Somebody ask love why she aint wanna live here
[01:33.86]So in it's place is a lot of pride
[01:36.49]Anybody thinking they know me, I apologize
[01:39.61]Grandpa is eighty plus still being strong
[01:42.57]Tell the fake niggas \"keep on keeping on\"
[01:45.65]Faithfully tell anybody who hated me
[01:48.33]Hastily, all it ever did was motivated me
[01:51.24]They say I'm difficult, so to put it simply
[01:54.22]Tell the world I never cared it was against me
[01:57.28]Tell god to be there in case I fall
[02:00.13]Tell fans I never gyped em I always gave them my all
[02:02.86]Tell my girl she put me through it
[02:04.62]But if I had to go through it with anybody I'm thankful it's her
[02:09.02]Tell every member of my family
[02:10.48]For too long I hid behind my own insanity & got me caught up
[02:14.62]& then Somebody tell currency I chased him to the death
[02:17.58]I thought I'd catch the nigga until I ran out of breath
[02:20.55]Tell my bruises \"I'm fine, I'm good, I normally heal quick\"
[02:23.57]Tell the rain come down, I need to feeeeel it
[02:26.85]I told a nigga give me a hand but he wouldn't
[02:29.38]I kept telling myself I can't until I couldn't
[02:32.13]If niggas wanna kill me tell em I already died
[02:35.15]Tell anybody that will listen I tried
[02:36.75]Til the water ran dry
[02:38.59]Tell the water to get the fuck out my eyes
[02:41.03]Tell the crust it tastes great but I much rather the pie
[02:43.63]Ask success what I got to do to succeed
[02:46.63]Then tell my twin brothers I look at em like my seeds
[02:49.78]Ya'll will be the mouths I feed
[02:52.07]If a nigga ever tell me how to rid myself of some of this greed
[02:55.12]I tell them that I'm grown, really I aint finish growing
[02:58.40]Look, tell failure I aint wanna get to know him
[03:01.21]Tell the stick up kids to come and get me
[03:04.05]Tell the stereotypes, look I tried them shits on...they didn't fit me
[03:07.32]Tell whoever I wronged I apologize
[03:09.90]& Tell me though it's bumps in the road, still I gotta ride
[03:13.32]They tell me I got a lot of pride
[03:16.16]I tell them how the FUCK you gon' tell me what I got inside
[03:19.08]Then they wanna lecture a nigga
[03:21.10]Tell me life is what you make it
[03:22.60]That when I tell them I beg to differ
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