Not everybody knows what it feels like To be on top, I know it ain't real life
Flying with the birds just to feel high Praying not to fall, let me fly
Not everybody knows what it feels like To be on top, I know it ain't real life
Flying with the birds just to feel high Praying not to fall, let me fly

As I sit here tryna wonder If it rain, can I really dodge thunder
Staring in the mirror, see reflections of my brother
Cause he did the best he could, just tryna support my mother
Man, I know the struggle Hand me down clothes and my shoes

Was talking, but I keep on walking Destiny keep calling like, who is it
What you want? We think that it's a prank
So we hang right up, wasn't much of a baller
Straight A scholar, said I was like my dad Just tryna get a dollar

Well, I like the sound of that
But he ain't finished college And he ain't raised his daughter
Nor for state three years, he even played shofar
I guess I'm what I feel, so I need to stop doubting

Black man drinking from a white fountain
Thinking the impossible like ants moving mountains
Dream big, signed the death jam pilot
That'll be a come up from the public housings

Now I know what success is
Mo' debt and a bunch of gold necklaces
They say rich people do dumb shit
Well, at least they dumb enough to get rich quick

I don't really know what it feels like
To make it to the top if it ain't real life
Failure's not a fear, but success is
Cause when you make it, everybody on the half shit

And let me have that, let me have this
But where was you when I ain't have shit
In the living room of that apartment
Sharing sofa with my brother, no food, no rent

Like soft mom did her best
Chasing after dreams, fighting pride and stress
I can tell you don't wanna work this hard
When goals seem close, they seem just as far

Climbing up never seemed so hard
No hand reached out, just you and God
I thought I was on top a while back ago
To wake up with a child and no wife at home

Try and make a dollar of raps
Studio life wrote dead in all caps
Now every time you know what life feels like
To be on top I know it ain't real life

Fire with the birds, let's feel high
Prayin' not to fall, let me fly
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