Killers - J. Cole.mp3

[00:00.00]"Killers"
[00:21.98]Momma I just killed a man
[00:23.14]My body still trembling can you feel my hand
[00:25.75]Don’t shed no tears, it won’t be long before they find out it was me momma
[00:28.82]This may be the last time you see me free ma
[00:31.69]Don’t spend it cryin’
[00:32.39]You did your best, me I was blessed, know you were stressed trying
[00:35.00]To keep me out the streets, me ducking police
[00:37.36]Trying not to make a peek to wake you up out your sleep
[00:39.98]A drunk and high fool
[00:41.18]Skipping class, flunking high school
[00:42.98]I know you taught me better, somehow I never learned
[00:45.70]Said I was playing with fire, somehow I never burned
[00:48.42]You tried to set me straight, somehow I never permed
[00:50.89]You tried to show me right, but somehow I never turned
[00:53.95]Lost in a cloud of bullshit, are you ashamed of me
[00:56.69]Dry your face mommy, your not to blame for me
[00:59.40]See I’m a man, I gotta take whatever came for me
[01:01.81]At times I wonder ’bout my father
[01:03.93]Would it change for me if he was around?
[01:05.79]Would I still be running 'round with the lowlife’s
[01:08.30]Bum ass niggas no jobs, no life
[01:10.02]Seen them niggas killed for no price
[01:11.63]I watched his life flash before his eyes like a strobe light
[01:14.50]I pulled the trigger momma
[01:15.60]Tryna be hard, I ain't mean to kill the nigga momma
[01:17.88]But what’s done is done
[01:19.48]I’m on the run, I live my life like a movie now it’s way too realer
[01:23.35]Who woulda thought your baby boy woulda grew up to be a killer
[01:26.71]Yeh, now I’m a killer
[01:29.78]Guess I’m a killer
[01:32.90]They got me in here with the killers
[01:35.36]Yeah I mean the killers
[01:37.92]I wonder whats in store for me
[01:49.13]Lately been stressing, pray for blessings, hope that there’s more for me
[01:51.75]Than just a simple life
[01:52.95]Niggas that I used to hoop with is doing triple life
[01:55.52]Gave up the jump shot
[01:57.02]Work on the John shot
[01:58.28]Who woulda thought I used to block this niggas lay ups
[02:01.14]Now he’s in a cell layed up
[02:02.99]I wish you well, stay up
[02:04.34]Like insomniacs
[02:05.55]This life can make a nigga fold like a laundry mat
[02:08.11]I sip this cognac though to ease my brain from all this pain
[02:11.28]And so that I react slow, in this fast world
[02:13.56]Slow niggas, fast girls
[02:14.81]Hoes give up ass while these ho niggas hold triggers
[02:17.38]Blast on ‘em
[02:18.29]Hold up that old checker flag for ‘em
[02:20.10]Chalk lines by the do not park sign
[02:22.87]It’s deep, all these cold hearted niggas holding heat
[02:26.13]I’d rather blast before they steal a nigga
[02:28.30]Tell ‘em now boy, don’t make me turn into a killer
[02:31.46]Yeah, into a killer
[02:34.53]Don’t make me turn into a killer
[02:37.40]Yeah, to a killer, yeh yeh
[02:52.09]To those who had love for me in the past
[02:54.62]Who woulda thought time would fly by so fast
[02:57.68]I remember back in class we used to make believe
[03:00.14]Like it was draft day
[03:01.40]Swore that we would make the league, be rich
[03:03.41]Saturday morning had to rake the leaves, awww bullshit
[03:06.28]Watch how they pile up
[03:07.55]Seem like a mile up
[03:08.69]I was the blisters on my hand than I dial up my best friend
[03:12.22]Skating rink is where we headed tonight
[03:14.28]And if a nigga disrespect, yes we ready to fight
[03:16.89]In retrospect that bullshit seemed petty
[03:18.96]At the time, the bullshit was heavy
[03:20.06]Cause life was all about your name
[03:21.68]You had to scrap with any nigga that would call you lame
[03:24.33]Ashamed no doubt, so many niggas go they brains blown out
[03:27.20]Snatched a nigga chain and he got his name rolled out in obituaries
[03:30.19]Another body in a cemetary
[03:32.69]Another young nigga in the penetentiary
[03:35.66]And he don’t give a **** no missionary
[03:38.23]Rap visionary, paint a picture nigga pictionary
[03:41.69]Tell you what it is, I’m a dictionary
[03:43.76]I knew a nigga that threw his dick in every chick in every city that he went to
[03:47.62]Went hard like the rent do
[03:49.09]Till he met the wrong nigga, man just came home ex-convict
[03:52.90]And he stay on with that Thriller
[03:54.92]Bullshit, messing around with them killers
[03:57.58]Yeah, with them killers
[04:01.21]****ing around with them killers
[04:03.72]Say I’m a killer