EXILE - Maintain (feat. Miguel, Blu, Donel Smokes, Cashus King) lyrics

I'm trying to find a way up
Out of this living at home
Trying to find out who my father is
Sitting alone bumpin' Common Sense blown
Not off the chronic
But off the knowledge in his dome
Still astonished, but I gotta move on
See my mother thinks my problem is
I really ain't accomplish shit
21 without a car, scarred
Without a scholarship
And some days I don't eat
All I got is pocket lint
I walk around with cold feet and
I'm thinner than my wallet is
But she don't realize

Her son is five times dominant
Than most niggas she's honoring
But she don't see the prominence
Probably fuck around and change the
World like Bob Marley did
My talent's apparent
But, it's fatherless of how
She don't acknowledge it
I hate running away from my
Problems without solving it proper
I don't wanna be a doctor
I just wanna be the father that
My father never bothered to be
My son ain't never have to follow the streets
His role model is me
Life can get you down some time
We keep movin' on
Just keep your head up high
All things change with time
You-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou you gon' be alright
Never give up your dream maintain your fight

Up early in the morning, still yawnin'
Mama wakin' me up
If not church it was school
Which I didn't give a fuck about neither
A non-believer you can call me whatever
Doin' dumb shit like ditchin' class
I knew nothin' better
Instead of treatin' myself
I was cheatin' myself
Trying to be different when I
Should have tried being myself
It would have helped if Gramps Sr
Was around when I was younger
Left Mama trying to tell me
That the gunshots was thunder
I was hearin' trying to sleep
Over Little Bo Peep
A strong woman kept seein' tears
Fallin' from her cheeks
On my sheets - Was he strong
Was he weak? I don't know
But it takes something great to
Leave a family of four
Sometimes it makes no sense at all
Even though we made it
Over where you fumbled
Mama picked up the ball and scored
Lord help the man wherever he is
And give me the strength so I won't
Do the same to my kids that's real

Life can get you down some time
We keep movin' on
Just keep your head up high
All things change with time
You-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou you gon' be alright
Never give up your dream maintain your fight

I gotta get up outta here
I'm a prisoner of pain
I'm a captain to a mind
Like it's driven insane
It's like I'm livin' for the
Minute let this livin's explained
I gotta know
If after living will our spirit remain?
Why we hugged up on the block and
Raise our kids in a gang?
And why once, we live once
We never livin' again?
Why my pops shot up and what
It did to his veins?
Was them needles from a victim
That was inflicted with AIDS?
Is this the reason that he got
It? You know why I suppose I don't know
Didn't I know? It's like a knife in my soul
It's real talk
I ain't sure about the life that's beyond
And I don't understand why people
We fightin' them wars ourselves
God help us, we ain't right in the head
And I be dreamin' 'bout my problems
Every night in the bed
I be thinkin' 'bout my past and
Shit a nigga feelin' passionate
The same time raised by the past
I can't get past this shit
And lookin' back on it
There ain't nothin' to say
I'm too wrapped up in the pain
I feel this numbin' embrace
I get a flash of them streets and
What they done to my face
And when he beat me to my knees
He had a gun at his waist
But the beatin' that I took
It wasn't nothin' to take trust me
He had have killed me if he done it today
I ain't never been no coward
So fuck that runnin' away
You only catch a nigga runnin'
If there's something to chase
It's young Co$$

Life can get you down some time
We keep movin' on
Just keep your head up high
All things change with time
You-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou you gon' be alright
Never give up your dream maintain your fight
Life can get you down some time
We keep movin' on
Just keep your head up high
All things change with time
You-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou you gon' be alright
Never give up your dream maintain your fight