Joe Budden - Calm Down lyrics
[Joe Budden - Calm Down lyrics]
Calm down calm down baby just calm down
(Calm down) she use to tell me to calm down
Moms use to tell me to calm down
Baby just calm down
She use to tell me to calm down
Moms use to tell me to calm down
(She would pray that I would)
Baby just calm down calm down
Look, I was such a lost soul
Just wanted to be down with something
Look at your son now mommy
I amounted to something
You couldn't figure out
What I had messed with the streets for
Cause you saw my genius without a SAT score
I took drugs and laced it with things
But, you a addict yourself
For you I was people places and things
(how the fuck you thought)
Angeldust use to have me
In the hallways twurked i tried to hide it
But Visine didn't always work
I needed someone to blame in my mind
I thought if you and dad never used
Dope I would a came out fine
And so I igged you hard
When you threw in advice
Like what I want to talk to
You about you ruined my life
You the reason why I ended up
A con and I knew it
The reason I filled my body
With that bomin fluid, mommy
You the reason that my life's gone illegal
The reason I'm kinda different, don't
Think like normal people, not calm
She use to tell me to calm down
Moms use to tell me to calm down
(Use to pray that I would)
Baby just calm down
You gotta hold your head up
Cause we gone make it
She use to tell me to calm down
Moms use to tell me to calm down
(You got to understand what
I was going through) baby just calm down
Everything's gonna be alright
She use to tell me to calm down
Moms use to tell me to calm down
(But a nigga wouldn't) Baby just calm down
You gotta hold your head up cause
We gone make it y'all
Listen ain't shit like seeing your
Moms crying on the floor
Knowing you the reason why she
Ain't alright no more
But so young, I was like whatever
You use to chase me through the house with
The knife like get your life together
Fucking drugs, how could I ever amp on you
And what made me think that I
Could lay my hands on you
I'm not surprised that you mad at me
Much as you hated my father
Your youngest son is just like his daddy
Mommy I live life rude
How could you not understand it
On the same note I'm just like you
I got moms sensitivity, my fathers balls
His humor, his g, yet my heart is yours
Fuck school, cause I had my major
Come to grips that it ain't
So much the drugs, it's the addict behavior
(no) wasn't the dip jar
It's the cut that came with it
Wasn't really the smoking
But the rush that came with it
(wasn't calm people)
She use to tell me to calm down calm down
(but a nigga wouldn't) Baby just calm down
You gotta hold your head up cause
We gone make it y'all
(do it with me people) Calm down calm down
(try to understand it) Baby just calm down
(those kind of things) Everything's
Gonna be alright calm down
(just bare with me for a
For a brief moment y'all) calm down
Baby just calm down
You gotta hold your head up cause
We gone make it y'all
I felt so alone, I had a crew, but so what
Then when Angela stabbed me
Guess who showed up
And when people said I'd always
Be ill and twisted
And when the therapist had told us
That the pills would fix it
Was sick of being sick, I was finally hurt
With all the praying that you did ma
It finally worked god gave you a son back
I won't offend you again
Won't let the disease turn
Me against you again use to be high as ever
(but I) Joey Jr got his life together
As a result, now we tighter than ever
So blessed, so grateful to be seeing tomorrow
(see the whole world)
That's why I can't take a drink
Not if even a swallow
I can't picture me twisted
Like what I'm a do now
Haters I can't stop yet, my mothers to proud
Secure now
Don't need to be down with nothing
Look at your son now mommy
I amounted to something i'm so calm
Calm down calm down
(but a nigga wouldn't calm down)
Baby just calm down
You gotta hold your head up cause
We gone make it y'all (hold up)
She use to tell me to calm down
(Use to pray that I would) calm down
(But, I couldn't, I couldn't
Couldn't do it) Baby just calm down
(Nothing heals like time people)
Everything's gonna be alright
(Understand that) calm down calm down
(Fucking miracle) Baby just calm down
You gotta hold your head up cause
We gone make it y'all
(They said I wouldn't reach 21
Y'all i'm still standing)
Calm down thanks ma
Calm down i couldn't do it without you
Calm down calm down
You are appreciated calm down
Fa sho calm down
It's a slow process y'all
One day at a time though too get beautiful
(Calm down) she use to tell me to calm down
Moms use to tell me to calm down
Baby just calm down
She use to tell me to calm down
Moms use to tell me to calm down
(She would pray that I would)
Baby just calm down calm down
Look, I was such a lost soul
Just wanted to be down with something
Look at your son now mommy
I amounted to something
You couldn't figure out
What I had messed with the streets for
Cause you saw my genius without a SAT score
I took drugs and laced it with things
But, you a addict yourself
For you I was people places and things
(how the fuck you thought)
Angeldust use to have me
In the hallways twurked i tried to hide it
But Visine didn't always work
I needed someone to blame in my mind
I thought if you and dad never used
Dope I would a came out fine
And so I igged you hard
When you threw in advice
Like what I want to talk to
You about you ruined my life
You the reason why I ended up
A con and I knew it
The reason I filled my body
With that bomin fluid, mommy
You the reason that my life's gone illegal
The reason I'm kinda different, don't
Think like normal people, not calm
She use to tell me to calm down
Moms use to tell me to calm down
(Use to pray that I would)
Baby just calm down
You gotta hold your head up
Cause we gone make it
She use to tell me to calm down
Moms use to tell me to calm down
(You got to understand what
I was going through) baby just calm down
Everything's gonna be alright
She use to tell me to calm down
Moms use to tell me to calm down
(But a nigga wouldn't) Baby just calm down
You gotta hold your head up cause
We gone make it y'all
Listen ain't shit like seeing your
Moms crying on the floor
Knowing you the reason why she
Ain't alright no more
But so young, I was like whatever
You use to chase me through the house with
The knife like get your life together
Fucking drugs, how could I ever amp on you
And what made me think that I
Could lay my hands on you
I'm not surprised that you mad at me
Much as you hated my father
Your youngest son is just like his daddy
Mommy I live life rude
How could you not understand it
On the same note I'm just like you
I got moms sensitivity, my fathers balls
His humor, his g, yet my heart is yours
Fuck school, cause I had my major
Come to grips that it ain't
So much the drugs, it's the addict behavior
(no) wasn't the dip jar
It's the cut that came with it
Wasn't really the smoking
But the rush that came with it
(wasn't calm people)
She use to tell me to calm down calm down
(but a nigga wouldn't) Baby just calm down
You gotta hold your head up cause
We gone make it y'all
(do it with me people) Calm down calm down
(try to understand it) Baby just calm down
(those kind of things) Everything's
Gonna be alright calm down
(just bare with me for a
For a brief moment y'all) calm down
Baby just calm down
You gotta hold your head up cause
We gone make it y'all
I felt so alone, I had a crew, but so what
Then when Angela stabbed me
Guess who showed up
And when people said I'd always
Be ill and twisted
And when the therapist had told us
That the pills would fix it
Was sick of being sick, I was finally hurt
With all the praying that you did ma
It finally worked god gave you a son back
I won't offend you again
Won't let the disease turn
Me against you again use to be high as ever
(but I) Joey Jr got his life together
As a result, now we tighter than ever
So blessed, so grateful to be seeing tomorrow
(see the whole world)
That's why I can't take a drink
Not if even a swallow
I can't picture me twisted
Like what I'm a do now
Haters I can't stop yet, my mothers to proud
Secure now
Don't need to be down with nothing
Look at your son now mommy
I amounted to something i'm so calm
Calm down calm down
(but a nigga wouldn't calm down)
Baby just calm down
You gotta hold your head up cause
We gone make it y'all (hold up)
She use to tell me to calm down
(Use to pray that I would) calm down
(But, I couldn't, I couldn't
Couldn't do it) Baby just calm down
(Nothing heals like time people)
Everything's gonna be alright
(Understand that) calm down calm down
(Fucking miracle) Baby just calm down
You gotta hold your head up cause
We gone make it y'all
(They said I wouldn't reach 21
Y'all i'm still standing)
Calm down thanks ma
Calm down i couldn't do it without you
Calm down calm down
You are appreciated calm down
Fa sho calm down
It's a slow process y'all
One day at a time though too get beautiful