Castle Walls - T.I.

Everyone thinks that I have it all

But it's so empty living behind these castle walls

These castle walls

If I should tumble if I should fall

Would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls

There's no-one here at all, behind these castle walls

Observing the estate through the gate from the outside looking in

Bet you would think I got it made, better look again

I got a butler, got a maid, and a mansion

The belief is that I'm living out a millionaires fantasy

With phantoms and ferraris in the driveway

But you see it came in exchange of a sane man's sanity

Your vision jaded by the grammys on the mantelpiece

Just switch your camera lenses you would see the agony

Apparantly it's damaging the man you see before you

On the canvas he may seem alright but all the diasadvantages his family

Encounters overshadows his extravagance

Walk in my nine's a while I dare you, it'll scare you

While it surely seem like the kings life seem glamourous

As seen through the eyes of untrained amateurs

Because the cameras don't see beyond the walls of the smiles

On the castle till it falls in a pile.

Everyone thinks that I have it all

But it's so empty living behind these castle walls

These castle walls

If I should tumble if I should fall

Would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls

There's no-one here at all, behind these castle walls

Honestly to me, I think I'd lose every benefit of all that I've accomplished

If my kids never win at shit

Me knowing this, why should the verses I've laid

Be more important to me than the persons I've raised?

I guess I'm saying that to say the opportunity

That they just don't equate to all the time they take away

From the kids all the shit I did right is a mistake

If Deyjah end up a stripper and Major slanging yay

How could I ever consider myself a great

If Messiah ain't paid and Nique Nique ain't straight

Would your favorite song about the whips, money and shit

Be relevant if you found out the money wasn't rich, nope

So me being the goat shouldn't mean more to me

Than see it to a king though

From a bad ass kid to man with some dough

Otherwise I may well have stayed poor

So while they stay focused on me beefin with Flip and Shawty low,

Gucci or Ludacris, or if I'm fucking with a hoe.

Did I snitch when I got arrested or will I die over nonesense?

Internally I'm dealing with this conflict

So excuse me if I don't get the chance to kiss the hand

That slapped me in the face, Ay, I'm just a man

If they saying I ain't the best at making hit records

It's cause this my life these ain't just records

Bet you aint think at all nigga that deep, did ya dawg?

See you can't see the castle for the walls till it falls

Bet ain't think ir was that deep, did ya dawg?

Cause see you can't see the castle for the walls till it falls

Everyone thinks that I have it all

But it's so empty living behind these castle walls

These castle walls

If I should tumble if I should fall

Would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls

There's no-one here at all, behind these castle walls

Nobody knows I'm all alone

Living in this castle made of stone

They say that money is freedom but I feel trapped inside it all

And while I sit so high up on a throne

I wonder how I can feel this low

On top of the world it's beautiful

But there's no place to fall

For the record ay, I give a damn if I never said shit again

My career was meant for me to come and tell this

Honest interpretation of how affected I'm faced with

Matters most rappers used to keep locked away in the basement

Every day that I walk away I ain't sayin that I'm amazin

Downplaying the way I keep fellas from catchin cases

Won't take into consideration how much it mean what I'm saying

If when I say what I mean even when I'm sorrounded by the fakest

From one of the greatest sinners, blessed with most of God's graces

Who made his way amongst the greatest from the grimiest places

So next time you rating royalty and more is being given to recordings

Than the level of your loyalty, you obviously been ignoring me

Who else ya seen make it through the storm, unharmed this charmin,

While all the critics was looking for prince charmin

Disregarded the King of the South but raised doubt

Even though he made a castle out what used to be a house

He did shit that all your favorite rappers only rap about

But most of y'all don't see the castle for the walls

And it smiles till it falls in the piles so while...

Everyone thinks that I have it all

But it's so empty living behind these castle walls

These castle walls

If I should tumble if I should fall

Would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls

There's no-one here at all, behind these castle walls