Scary times
Please hold me close in these scary times
Don't say you love me
And then change your mind
I need someone who understands
I'm just a man, just a man
Chopper by the bed, glizzy by the door
How you think I'm supposed to live
When only thing I see is war?
Yesterday, was on the 'Gram
I seen a baby on the floor
They said they hit him with a bomb
And that kid ain't with his mom
And I'm used to seein' death '
Cause I'm from Philly where niggas die
Where the blacks kill blacks
And I can't even tell you why
I know niggas stuck in beef
And they can't even tell you how
If you strapped, you go to jail
But if you ain't, you gon' die (scary times)
And yeah I cried on the news
When I had changed that law
And niggas still talkin' 'bout me
Shit got changed for y'all
(please, hold me close in these scary times)
I been famous since 18
I ain't really change at all
Niggas gettin' in your head
That shit might change your dog
(Don't say you love me and then change your mind)
I change my drawers
Then put on my Glock when I wake up
Crazy part
That shit just made my block really break up
(I need someone who understands)
I'm the motivation
I made niggas get their cake up
(I'm just a man, just a man)
Caught niggas with their face down
And I made 'em put they face up
I been tryin' shine
Since Christina have had them Jacobs
Now it's Richard Millie
When she see me fix her makeup
Flyin' 12 hours
I be in Ghana when I wake up
Ain't no real niggas
Believe that lyin' shit they made up (scary times)
I stand on everything I said
Well, I'ma stay up
Tryna take my homie out the country
'cause he cased up
(please, hold me close in these scary times)
My other brother, life inside a cell
They got him caged up
18 years and ain't seen him since
They tryna break us
(don't say you love me and then change your mind)
I'm ridin' through the trenches
Two hundred shots, they tryna take us
I gotta make it home to Lil' Poppy
He got an A plus
I'm so poppin', they throwin' propaganda
You better wake up
(I'm just a man, just a man)
I'm just a-
How you gon' tell me you love me
And change your mind?
I'm readin' everything
Wrote a book about all your lies
I'm peepin' everything
So who crooked that's in the squad?
My homie lyin' to me
While he lookin' me in my eyes
And shit (change your mind)
It kind of hurt me
But really wasn't surprised
(I need someone who understands)
When the blind lead the blind
It can really fuck your mind
And the time meet the time
You 40 without a dime
(I'm just a man, just a man)
And the only thing you own is a .40
And a little nine
So if he kill somethin'
That's the only way he gon' shine
I got a Richie he get 60 years
We both doin' real time
Only difference is
I made it rappin', puttin' in real time
I still be talkin' pain, shit
My people still dyin'
Still cryin'
It was crab in the barrel
Still climb
Niggas tried to put me down
When I got out
Still throw a line
Doin' too much for these people
Gettin' tough ain't gon' lie
Like I ain't had the city flyin'
Private real time
I had niggas at the clearport
That never been to the airport (scary times)
Actin' like they got an attitude
Fuck is you here for?
(Please, hold me close in these scary times)
Go back to the hood
And bite my back, what you there for?
(Don't say you love me and then change your mind)
Broke boys hatin' on the king
Why would you care for?
I'm here for everybody
That was with me when I had a bad storm
(I need someone who understands)
Everybody actin' like they with me
All this glass on
5 a.m. in Philly, ridin' 'round
I got my mask on
(I'm just a man, just a man)
These times y'all pass on
Hatin' on your brother life
That's a bad jawn
I ain't seen my son in nights
That's a bad jawn
My homie in another life
That's a bad jawn
5 a.m. in Philly, ridin' 'round
I got my mask on
Scary times
Please hold me closely in these scary times
Don't tell me you love me
And then try to change your mind
I need someone who understands
I'm just a man, I'm just a man
(Scary times)
(Scary times)