Dead And Gone - Cute Is What We Aim For

I’ve been travellin' on this road too long

Just tryna find my way back home

The old me is dead and gone, dead and gone

Oh oh

Ever had one of them days wish would’ve stayed home

Run into a group of suckers trying to get they hate on

You walk by

They get wrong

You reply then shit get blown

Way outta proportion

Way past discussion

Just you against them, pick one then rush 'em

Figure you’ll get jumped, hell that’s nothing

They don’t wanna stop there now they bussin'

Now you gushin', ambulance rushin'

You to the hospital with a bad concussion

Hit 4 times plus it hit your spine

Paralyzed waist down now ya wheel chair bound

Nevermind that now you lucky to be alive

Just think it all started you fussin' with 3 guys

Now ya pride in the way, but ya pride is the way

You could mess around, get shot, die any day

People die everyday all over bull shit,

Dope money, dice game, ordinary hood shit

Could this be 'cos of hip hop music?

Or did the ones with the good sense not use it?

Usually people don’t know 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 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

I’ve been travellin' on this road too long

Just tryna find my way back home

The old me is dead and gone, dead and gone

Oh oh

I ain’t never been scared, I lived through tragedy

Situation could’ve been dead lookin' back at it

Most of that shit didn’t even have to happen

But you don’t think about it when you out there trappin'

In apartments, hangin', smokin', and rappin'

Suckers start shit, next thing ya know 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 get sad

Maybe my homeboy still be around

Had I not hit the sucker in the mouth that time

I won that fight, I lost that war

I can still see my homie walkin' out that door

Who’da thought I’d never see Philant no more?

Got enough dead homies I don’t want no more

Cost a sucker his job cost me more

I’d took that ass-whooping now for sure

Now I think before I risk my life

Take them chances to get my stripe

A sucker put his hands on me alright

Otherwise stand there talk shit all night

'Cos 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 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

I’ve been travellin' on this road too long

Just tryna find my way back home

The old me is dead and gone, dead and gone

Oh oh

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 is dead and gone

But that 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 is dead and gone

But that new me will be alright

Oh

I’ve been travellin' on this road too long

Just tryna find my way back home

The old me is dead and gone, dead and gone (But that new me will be alright)

Oh oh

Oh

I’ve been travellin' on this road too long (But that new me will be alright)

Just tryna find my way back home (But that new me will be alright)

The old me is dead and gone, dead and gone (But that new me will be alright)

Oh oh