T.I., Christina Aguilera - Castle Walls lyrics

Everyone thinks that I have it all
But it's so empty living
Behind these castle walls these castle walls
If I should tumble if I should fall
Would anyone hear me screaming
Behind these castle walls
There's no-one here at all
Behind these castle walls

Observing the estate through the gate
From the outside looking in
Bet you would think I got it made
Better look again
I got a butler, got a maid, and a mansion
The belief is that I'm living
Out a millionaire's fantasy
With phantoms and ferrari's in the driveway
But you see the fame's in exchange
For the same man's sanity
Your vision jaded by the
Grammys on the mantelpiece
Just switch your camera lenses you
Would see the agony
Apparently, it's damaging the man
You see before you on the canvas
He may seem alright but all
The disadvantages his family
Encounters overshadows his extravagance
Walk in my nines a while I dare you
Would it scare you while it surely seem like
King's life ain't glamorous
As seen through the eyes
Of untrained amateurs
Because the camera doesn't see beyond
The walls of the smiles
Only counts until it falls in the pile
Everyone thinks that I have it all
But it's so empty living
Behind these castle walls these castle walls
If I should tumble if I should fall
Would anyone hear me screaming
Behind these castle walls
There's no-one here at all
Behind these castle walls

Honestly to me
I think I'd lose every benefit
Of all that I've accomplished
If my kids never win at shit
Me knowing this
Why should the verses I have laid
Be more important to me than
The persons I have raised
I guess I'm saying that
To say that opportunity
But they just don't equate to all
The time they take away
From the kids all the shit I
Did right is a mistake
If Deyjah end up a stripper
And Major slinging yay
How could I ever consider myself a great
If Messiah ain't paid and
Nique Nique ain't straight
Would your favourite song about the whips
Money and shit be relevant if you found
Out, Domani wasn't rich, nope
So me being the GOAT shouldn't
Mean more to me than seeing to it King go
From a badass kid to a man with some dough
Otherwise I may as well have stayed poor
So while they stay focused on
Me beefin with Flip
Shawty Lo, Gucci or Ludacris
Or if I'm fucking with a ho
Did I snitch when I got arrested
Or will I die over nonsense
Internally I'm dealing with this conflict
So excuse me if I don't get
The chance to kiss the hand
That slap me in the face, ay I'm just a man
If they saying I ain't the
Best at making hit records
It's cause this my life
These ain't just rapping
Shit, you think of that deep, did you dawg
See you can't see the castle through
The walls till it falls
Bitch ain't thinking with the deep
Did you dawg
Cause see you can't see the castle
Through the walls till it falls
Everyone thinks that I have it all
But it's so empty living
Behind these castle walls these castle walls
If I should tumble if I should fall
Would anyone hear me screaming
Behind these castle walls
There's no-one here at all
Behind these castle walls

Nobody knows I'm all alone
Living in this castle made of stone
They say that money is freedom
But I feel trapped inside it all
And while I sit so high up on a throne
I wonder how I can feel this low
On top of the world, it's beautiful
But there's no place to fall

For the record ay
I give a damn if I never said shit again
My career was meant for me
To come and tell it
Honest interpretation of how affected
I'm faced with
Matters most rappers used to keep
Locked away in the basement
But the day that I walk away
I ain't saying that I'm amazing
Downplaying the way I kept
Fellas from catching cases
Won't take into consideration how much
It mean what I'm saying
And when I say what I mean even
When I'm surrounded by the fakest
From one of the greatest sinners
Blessed with most of God's graces
Who made his way amongst the
Greatest from the grimiest places
So next time you rating royalty
I'm always being given to
Recordings than the level of your loyalty
Obvious you've been ignoring me
Who else you seen make it through the storm
Unharmed disjointed
While all the critics was
Looking for Prince Charming
Disregarded the king of the
South raised doubt
Even though he made a castle out of
What used to be a house
He did shit that all your
Favorites rappers only rap about
But most of y'all don't see
The castle through the walls
And the smiles till it falls
In piles so while
Everyone thinks that I have it all
But it's so empty living
Behind these castle walls these castle walls
If I should tumble if I should fall
Would anyone hear me screaming
Behind these castle walls
There's no-one here at all
Behind these castle walls