End of the Road
Yeah, it's a long way home at the end of the roadI'll be paving my own way, to the top, I be here to staySo take my name, remember this face, keep the change and have a nice dayAnd live for the moment, not by the past, homie live each day like its your last
All my life, I couldn't fit in, like a bad shoeI was always too square, too cube, too tall, too weird, too blueForget them high-schools hotties now I'm too coolI guess I came a long way from that young kidThe schools most popular lame, no friends, no style, no clothes, no endJust a bed fell asleep, never woke up againYeah, and my last prayer was don't ever let me end up like the people that's down hereCause the one that fear change be the one that don't careLook at themselves and see somebody else in the mirrorBut you can always pick me out of the crowdLoud mouth with my very own styleAnd what I know now is don't ever pretendAnd live every single day like you wont see it again
So take my name, remember this face, keep the change and have a nice dayAnd live for the moment, not by the past, homie live each day like its your last
If you only have 24 hours, 1400 minutes before your dream is goneThen you better go live it, cause whatever you love could be taken awaySo live like its your dying day
I dedicate this to my teachers that never believed in meAnd the mother that conceived, but ended up leaving meI just wish you all can see me smile, this big grin is on the tv nowAnd I took it from the bottom to the topFrom the holes in my socks, ramen noodles in the potUsed to rob them on the block, now they stop me in the dropMiddle finger up and that ain't gonna stopI used to take orders, now I make betsI used to scrub floors, now I sign checksI used to push carts, now I push songsI used to be there, now I am so gone
I fired myself, found a job myselfEstablished my name and then I signed myselfAnd what I tell myself, is "you did this by yourself"And when on so long, I'll be by myself
So take my name, remember this face, keep the change and have a nice dayAnd live for the moment, not by the past, homie live each day like its the lastAnd if you only have 24 hours, 1400 minutes before your dream is goneThen you better go live it, cause whatever you love could be taken awaySo live like its your dying day
I wish I could see their faces when they heard your boy spitWish I could know what they're thinking when they heard my first hitCause I remember them wishing that I wouldn't get bigNow I bet they're wishing they wouldn't of said that shitI came out of a dying city brought back lifeEverything they said I couldn't do I did about twiceMultiplied by the battles that we popped each nightThat equals out to a celebration, bitches more iceMake it toast to the underdogs, toast to the teamToast to the fact, we this close to the dreamPour one for my exes, used to talk recklessBut now I push Benzes and rock RolexsCame from the city and until they come and get meTurn around and see the whole east sides still with meAnd that's how we live it, you mans don't changeLook, its still the kidYou still can't tell me a goddamn thing
So take my name, remember this face, keep the change and have a nice dayAnd live for the moment, not by the past, Homie live each day like its the lastAnd if you only have 24 hours, 1400 minutes before your dreams goThen you better go live it, cause whatever you love could be taken awaySo live like its a dying day
Yeah, its a long way home at the end of the roadI'll be paving my own way, to the top, I be here to staySo take my name, remember this face, keep the change and have a nice dayAnd live for the moment, not by the past, Homie live each day like its your last