Joe Budden - Just to Be Different lyrics
[Joe Budden - Just to Be Different lyrics]
I feel like there is no need for
Conversation
I wonder if the things I did were just
To be different
I would rather reveal myself than my
Situation
I wonder if the things I did were just
To be different
See I don't trust no one (talk to 'em)
So stubborn I could dream a thousand paths
Wake up and walk a old one
(Why?) And I follow wherever it take me
Instead of wherever the crew go like Tray Lee
They see distinguished
I see a nigga erasing that fine
Line between crazy and genius
Got the jewels out
See I'm on my Colorado shit (but)
I'd rather put the suit on and not follow it
(look) everything is perception
(I mean) everything is deception (but)
But niggas fuck with him cause
I be the exception (look)
I got a warm reception way
Before any song hit
I think too outside of the box to be cornered
I'm too real to be fickle
Grounded but too fly to meet
A nigga in the middle
Too big to be belittled
Wise way beyond my years
Here's the motto of a man child (what?)
Why try to fit in when you a standout?
Uhh, you in that mood yet? Why not?
Look, they said I had to make music
That would have the kids fiending, screaming
Make nothing with a meaning
(but) I ain't know the meaning (ohh)
They told him go Hollywood
For a split second thought I probably could
(but)
But parlayed on, would I be understood?
They told me even if you not
Able to cop cable
Anytime you hit the club you
Better have a table
Told me they would take me at my worst
Told me image is everything
So I told 'em I'd obey my thirst (whoa)
Told me do what you gotta once you on
Hit the scene, make it rain
I told 'em I'm already in the storm
Everything's in a uproar (whoa)
They told me front, I said "What for?"
(I mean whoa)
Said it again, I said "Fuck y'all!"
I won't succumb to all the stereotypes
Won't sacrifice me for what the stereo hypes
They told me get in where you fit in
This is what's in demand now
So I told em why try to
Fit in when you a standout?
I understand something's off about me
(but) but nothing's forced bout me
I never gave a fuck of what
A nigga thought about me
I look down upon what some see as a must
Maybe I'm regular and the
World needs to adjust
I mean I'm everyday people
Hood but still formal i'm normally abnormal
Taking life as a lesson
I'll leave the past in the past
Tomorrow's not promised
And today's just a gift
I guess that's why it's the present
Did I outgrow me, or shit just didn't stick?
The baggier my jeans
The more shit didn't fit
(But, I) Didn't quit, inspired by hate
Even with homeless
When you a star you already
Down with the Joneses
My thoughts out loud (I mean)
Sometimes if the leader walk slow enough
He fuck around get lost in the crowd (but)
But he ain't gotta speed up
Everything will pan out
(Why?) 'Cause they'll spot you from
Far when you a standout
Conversation
I wonder if the things I did were just
To be different
I would rather reveal myself than my
Situation
I wonder if the things I did were just
To be different
See I don't trust no one (talk to 'em)
So stubborn I could dream a thousand paths
Wake up and walk a old one
(Why?) And I follow wherever it take me
Instead of wherever the crew go like Tray Lee
They see distinguished
I see a nigga erasing that fine
Line between crazy and genius
Got the jewels out
See I'm on my Colorado shit (but)
I'd rather put the suit on and not follow it
(look) everything is perception
(I mean) everything is deception (but)
But niggas fuck with him cause
I be the exception (look)
I got a warm reception way
Before any song hit
I think too outside of the box to be cornered
I'm too real to be fickle
Grounded but too fly to meet
A nigga in the middle
Too big to be belittled
Wise way beyond my years
Here's the motto of a man child (what?)
Why try to fit in when you a standout?
Uhh, you in that mood yet? Why not?
Look, they said I had to make music
That would have the kids fiending, screaming
Make nothing with a meaning
(but) I ain't know the meaning (ohh)
They told him go Hollywood
For a split second thought I probably could
(but)
But parlayed on, would I be understood?
They told me even if you not
Able to cop cable
Anytime you hit the club you
Better have a table
Told me they would take me at my worst
Told me image is everything
So I told 'em I'd obey my thirst (whoa)
Told me do what you gotta once you on
Hit the scene, make it rain
I told 'em I'm already in the storm
Everything's in a uproar (whoa)
They told me front, I said "What for?"
(I mean whoa)
Said it again, I said "Fuck y'all!"
I won't succumb to all the stereotypes
Won't sacrifice me for what the stereo hypes
They told me get in where you fit in
This is what's in demand now
So I told em why try to
Fit in when you a standout?
I understand something's off about me
(but) but nothing's forced bout me
I never gave a fuck of what
A nigga thought about me
I look down upon what some see as a must
Maybe I'm regular and the
World needs to adjust
I mean I'm everyday people
Hood but still formal i'm normally abnormal
Taking life as a lesson
I'll leave the past in the past
Tomorrow's not promised
And today's just a gift
I guess that's why it's the present
Did I outgrow me, or shit just didn't stick?
The baggier my jeans
The more shit didn't fit
(But, I) Didn't quit, inspired by hate
Even with homeless
When you a star you already
Down with the Joneses
My thoughts out loud (I mean)
Sometimes if the leader walk slow enough
He fuck around get lost in the crowd (but)
But he ain't gotta speed up
Everything will pan out
(Why?) 'Cause they'll spot you from
Far when you a standout