B.o.B - So Hard to Breathe lyrics

Since day one I said fuck the
Fame and everything it dealt
But the fame is really here
Just to facilitate the wealth
But the wealth attracts you haters
Like mosquitos to a well
And the waters getting deeper so I
Must set out to sail
Someone called my cell, and left a voicemail
They said congratulations on the
Million record sales
As I'm flippin over furniture
Knockin' shit off the shelf
I told myself I'd never get too deep
To take a breath but I'm sinkin

And it's so hard to breathe, yeah
And even more so to sleep when no one cares
It was all I could need
But now I'm sinking, so deep
I can't come up for air

Yeah, I've seen the valley of
The shadow of death
I've seen the mountains, a wild childhood
That's why I sing about it
I just try to move on and
Keep my peace about it
But come to think about it I
Can't even count the days
That I spent starvin' tryin' to
Find a some decent housing
It's why I'm always smiling but on
This beat I seem so violent
So ask me about the music scene and
What the fuck I think about it
Time flies I guess that's why I'm buggin
Just yesterday I was rappin with
My brother and my cousin
If you had the stove or toaster
On you couldn't use the oven
We knew that we were struggling we
Just actin like we wasn't
It was either make it rapping
If not that then hustling
So all I see is magazine covers in this game
You either surface or you plummet
It's a thin line and I'm just tryin
To keep my head above it, damn

And it's so hard to breathe, yeah
And even more so to sleep when no one cares
It was all I could need
But now I'm sinking, so deep
I can't come up for air

Air I (I sink away) air (I sink away)
Air (As I sink away) I (Damn I sink away)
Damn air damn pots and pans
Get carried away damn get carried away it
Was never in the plans
But hey it's long way from
Beatin' pots and pans

And it's so hard to breathe, yeah
And even more so to sleep when no one cares
It was all I could need
But now I'm sinking, so deep
I can't come up for air

Damn it was never in the plans
But hey it's a long way
From beatin' pots and pans
But now I'm sinking so deep I
Can't come up for air, air, ah