[Intro Backing Vocals]
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[Verse 1]
I wanna be a good role model
To girls coming after but
Sometimes I slip up, and say some shit that ratchet
Forgive me I'm a work in progress
Most days I'm conscious
Still I'm a product of my West Baltimore environment
So please excuse the [ ? ] in me
If I
Get out of pocket in my first class seat
If I
Don't give a fuck bout whatchu saying to me
If I'm
Too big for my britches than give me a sheet
I need room to grow
I'm still figuring it out
And if you say You ain't you lying
Hell you talking about
Balancing single parenting with music business leveraging
Can get discouraging
My mind stay worrying
Every morning
I just keep emerging and try again
Consummating paper to pen
French toast, scrambled eggs, hot toddy with Gin
Homeschool my baby boy to make his mind a weapon
He the coolest dude I ever known, I'm grateful for him
He a angel how you say that we made him in sin
Me and my baby father just couldn't keep it together
He say I hit him in his mouth, don't believe what he tell ya
Some things are only meant for a season
I use to hate him
Now I tell him thank you when I see him
I was a plant, he was a seed
Love and pain watered us and a man child came to be
Most things ain't meant forever
May twenty second, two thousand and seven we split up
I slept in a car
Breast feeding the baby for half a year, for reasons like pride & fear
I've been through so much shhh
I'm surprised I'm still standing
So every time I see a mirror, I pose dam it!
It's a celebration
Every time I'm waking
Even if my angels wake me out my dreams shaking
I'm standing Yeah!
One love to my nephew Kaliel
You a King I can see why God choose you for his
And through your two sons
Forever you live
These Baltimore streets, ain't deserve you kid
And if we find them motherfuckas
Then you know what it is
My bad, I ain't pose to be talking like this
But this pain
Don't contain
Political correctness
I let it pour out
However it come
For every son
Of every mother who never get to recover
Still tryna find new reasons to live
To keep pushing forward
Now with a rawness
Like a North wind that ravished a garden, freezing it over
Praying to God, to one day to get over
Gwiny we've got to get over
Still throwing salt over shoulders
And if the devil's a boulder, then God is Mount Everest
And I'mma die climbing up that bitch!!!
[Chorus]
Go tell it on the Mountains (Mountains)
Lean not unto your own understanding
Oooh it will lead you astray
But trust in the Lord it will be okay
The Mountains (Mountains)
Lean not unto your own understanding
Oooh it will lead you astray
But trust in the Lord it will be okay
The Mountains (Mountains)
[Verse 2]
The cup that is already full
Can not receive what God has to pour into you
I learned that from my grandma and she never finished school
Her neck should of been bare, from all the dropping of the jewels
She heard it in the whispering of the winds, spread the news
Good things come to those who wait, and pay their dues
Little Mississippi, never had a pair of shoes
So she hit the windy city now she got thirty two
Seeing progress is the greatest motivator
Like the little boy who sketch turned into elevators
But moving up ain't always moving right
But Trust in the Lord and he will give you new sight
To see the unseen, and know the unknown
Instead of living through the tiny window of your ego
I ain't got the answer Sway, but this I know
We're all works in progress tryna find our way home
[Chorus]
Go tell it on the Mountains (Mountains)
Lean not unto your own understanding
Oooh it will lead you astray
But trust in the Lord it will be okay
The Mountains (Mountains)
Lean not unto your own understanding
Oooh it will lead you astray
But trust in the Lord it will be okay
The Mountains (Mountains)
[Outro Flute Music]
