Joe Budden - For a Reason lyrics

Y-y, uh y-y-y-y-y yo yo
Uh, yo yo yo

Looking back on the things I've done
Everything happens for a reason (Yo)
Life is something you learn from (Yo, yo)
Everything happens for a reason (Yo, yo, yo)
I gotta make a confession
There's nothin' I'm regrettin'
Life's a valuable lesson to have
To pull out a weapon so don't make me
Life is something you learn from
Everything happens for a reason (Look, look)

It's Joey B, you know me, B
It's the nigga that would try and
Get the blow on GP
It's the nigga in the hood on the low G3
(yeah) it's the nigga some niggas want
So does he please
Is it 'cause he make the flow look so easy
(Or) or do they sit and count up
All the dough that he see (Or)
Or do they wanna prove they OG and use me
To get the guns out, sending him to ODB
But what I ever did to a
Nigga? Aside give to a nigga
Try to show the big pic' to a nigga
(Listen here now) but, I can't conclude how
Some niggas conclude
That the world is too small for
Them to live with a nigga
I don't regret dude tryin' me
(Nah) , dude keepin' that eye on me (Nah)
Then they gotta live with
This thing called irony
And if I gotta live with
The idea remindin' me
Then they can't live when the iron's on me
Yeah! (Come on)

Looking back on the things I've done
Everything happens for a reason
Life is something you learn from
Everything happens for a reason
I gotta make a confession
There's nothin' I'm regrettin'
Life's a valuable lesson to have
To pull out a weapon so don't make me
Life is something you learn from (Woah)
Everything happens for a reason
(Woah, woah, woah)

Things just ain't the same for gangstas
And so I bear my soul, my pain, my anger
I beg to the Lord
Keep me far from mo' danger
Look I know 'em but can't see 'em
He's a popular stranger
If I never got stabbed
Wouldn't remember Veronica's wrath
Standing in the shower looking at the scab
I wouldn't know the hints of a stick-up kid
If I ain't have that short
Stint as a stick-up kid
If dude never tried to kill me
I might'a went numb
To all the bullshit that goes
On where I'm from
And if I never went to jail
Wouldn't needed a bail
Would'a probly went on to graduate from Yale
Would'a been a prosecutor standing in
The court of law but then that goes against
Everything he stands for
And if I never met Glo
How would I really know
All the shit that comes with
When you dealing with a ho
See it is what it is to be
Or it is what it is
At least that's what it is to me
And so if I could ever go back in history
I wouldn't change shit
I'd leave it all just to be
And if my first album would'a
Did five when it dropped i'd be chillin'
Instead of tryna' rise to the top
If I could reverse the roles
Would I reverse the roles?
Would it be worth it to
Try to reverse the tolls?

Looking back on the things I've done
Everything happens for a reason
Life is something you learn from
Everything happens for a reason
I gotta make a confession
There's nothin' I'm regrettin'
Life's a valuable lesson to have
To pull out a weapon so don't make me
Life is something you learn from (Woah)
Everything happens for a reason
(Woah, woah, woah)

I got a brother always keeps it real
His name's Guilt let's me know I can't stand
However it is I feel
I got a cousin named Pride
Nigga acts like a lawyer
Gotta a sister named Karma
I be tryna' avoid 'er
Gotta ex that's bitter
Wants me to be her nigga
Hates my girl, Self-Pity
'cause I'm always with her
But Bitter's beef is valid
She don't like shorty 'cause she use me
One time she seen 'er verbally abuse me
Got a friend that's passive
Friends call him Passive
He just says whatever hoping that shit passes
My Uncle Hindsight wears real thick glasses
Reminds me of where I been
And how shit gets drastic
Got a Aunt named Humility
She speaks low mumbles
Don't care that I'm a rapper
She keeps me so humble
In my head I'll debate it
Out loud I'll never say it
I'm pretty sure it's a good
Reason we all related

Everything happens for a reason
I gotta make a confession
There's nothin' I'm regretting
Life's a valuable lesson to have
To pull out a weapon so don't make me
Life is something you learn from
Everything happens for a reason
Looking back on the things I've done
Everything happens for a reason
Life is something you learn from
Everything happens for a reason
Life is something you learn from
Everything happens for a reason