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Foolish Lyrics by Retrospective

2009

(Intro)
Being young and foolish and naive
(Retrospective, can you answer a few questions for us?)

(Verse 1)
I put my pen to the paper
My heart in the track
Your the reason that I rap
Tryna find my way back (Way back where?)
The way back of how things used to be
Why they hating' on me I'm just tryna get freaked up
All I see is the same cats on the block
Both wanna hustle but the envy won't stop (Oh I see, I see)
Here come the drop, I'm just tryna make it happen
Yo the only thing I got, is my fam and it's rapping
It sounds tragic, but I learned to accept it
Lookin' back on my life it got hectic
Learn to respect it, Yo I take it as it comes
It can get a little rough son, I won't run. (What were you gonna do?)
Stand tall, people won't keep going
They said I wouldn't make it, still hoping It's still flowing. (Repeat that please.)
Still flowing

(Chorus)
(Being, being young and foolish.)
Young and foolish everybody goes through it
(Young and foolish)
Young and foolish everybody goes through it
(Young and foolish)

(Verse 2)
How many times they said I couldn't do it?
(So tell us a little about your childhood)
Growing up I ain't never had nothing
But my mom and my brother made it all worth something
So my pen hits the paper
So time to get it done young hustler on the block tryna keep his heart thumping
Not for the frontin' been in this place since I was young
Got locked, sold rocks, was really on the run
Not the one but I'm next in line
And If you still don't get it? I'm the next to shine
I'm on my grind tryna perfect the rhymes
Write every single day, that's my per flexion time
Looking back on my life, all the mountains I've climbed
[?] Oh I'm sure I shine. (Oh of course!)
[?] I'm just tryna get mine
So read between the lines all star the death and the shine

(Chorus)
(Being, being young and foolish)
Young and foolish everybody goes through it
(Young and foolish)
Young and foolish everybody goes through it
(Young and foolish)
How many times they said I couldn't do it?
(Foolish, Foolish, Foolish, Foolish)

(Verse 3) On a phone call

???: (So, Retro-Spective, what's your most valuable possessions?)

Retro-Spective: (Y'know what I'm saying, It's gotta be the love and appreciation that I get from my fam, You know what I'm saying? The people around me.)

??? (Okay, so what's your motivation?)

Retro-Spective: (My motivation is the everyday struggle, Just speak for the people that nobody wanna listen to, You know what I mean?)

(Outro)
(Young and foolish)
(Foolish, Foolish, Foolish, Foolish)

About “Foolish” by Retrospective

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