J. Cole - 3 Wishes lyrics
J. Cole [Jermaine Lamarr Cole] Frankfurt, Germany/Fayetteville, North Carolina, U.S. 🇩🇪 🇺🇸
[J. Cole - 3 Wishes lyrics]
Yeah grew up with killers
I ain't know they was killers
We was just together, man, playing
Mega Man on Sega, man
Your mama loved me to death
She reminded me of Afeni
Yeah, a real black queen, if I had a genie
I'd wish that she ain't struggle no more
Y'all wouldn't have to go to sleep with all
The roaches if she wasn't so poor
You told me when you came to my house
The shit was like a timeout from reality
One night you asked me what I'm crying 'bout
'Cause you was staying over for the weekend
I woke up from out my sleep when
I heard mama and my stepfather beefin'
I don't know if he'd been drinkin'
But I know that shit got loud
And I heard rumbling from struggling
And rolling on the ground
Could never get used to that sound
My mama saying "Get off me!"
My tears is tumbling now, I wish
That you never saw me, 'cause I
Felt like a coward
So powerless I was only 12
I wish I would've bust right through
That door my fucking self
And grabbed the Glock right
Off the fucking shelf, if nothing else
Scared the nigga shitless
There goes two of my wishes
Forever scarred, determined to get some heart
No matter how big the nigga
No matter how small you are
Fast forward to our older years
Two different paths
You used to talk to me 'bout college
But that shit didn't last
Wasted potential, getting cash
What could I say?
So tired of not having things, you'd
Never see it my way, too proud to fold
Your demise, one day much to my surprise
My nigga called me
Told me you just caught a
Body twice your size
I asked if it was self-defense
He said it was defense of pride
And that they tryna give you ten, but
If you lucky you'll do five, damn
Not my nigga, the same one that told me
That things always get better, just trust me
Don't cry my nigga
The news call him a killer, but he my nigga
Sad shit, aye yo, genie last wish
Free my nigga
I ain't know they was killers
We was just together, man, playing
Mega Man on Sega, man
Your mama loved me to death
She reminded me of Afeni
Yeah, a real black queen, if I had a genie
I'd wish that she ain't struggle no more
Y'all wouldn't have to go to sleep with all
The roaches if she wasn't so poor
You told me when you came to my house
The shit was like a timeout from reality
One night you asked me what I'm crying 'bout
'Cause you was staying over for the weekend
I woke up from out my sleep when
I heard mama and my stepfather beefin'
I don't know if he'd been drinkin'
But I know that shit got loud
And I heard rumbling from struggling
And rolling on the ground
Could never get used to that sound
My mama saying "Get off me!"
My tears is tumbling now, I wish
That you never saw me, 'cause I
Felt like a coward
So powerless I was only 12
I wish I would've bust right through
That door my fucking self
And grabbed the Glock right
Off the fucking shelf, if nothing else
Scared the nigga shitless
There goes two of my wishes
Forever scarred, determined to get some heart
No matter how big the nigga
No matter how small you are
Fast forward to our older years
Two different paths
You used to talk to me 'bout college
But that shit didn't last
Wasted potential, getting cash
What could I say?
So tired of not having things, you'd
Never see it my way, too proud to fold
Your demise, one day much to my surprise
My nigga called me
Told me you just caught a
Body twice your size
I asked if it was self-defense
He said it was defense of pride
And that they tryna give you ten, but
If you lucky you'll do five, damn
Not my nigga, the same one that told me
That things always get better, just trust me
Don't cry my nigga
The news call him a killer, but he my nigga
Sad shit, aye yo, genie last wish
Free my nigga