What's the difference ‘tween a painter and a lyricist
Well one uses a comma and the other use a period
Look at my microphone and all I sees a canvas
My rhymes have gotten better since they kicked me off of campus
Threw me to the wolves, really threw me at the world
I done seen a lot of niggas i done met a lot of girls
And one thing to consider, everyone got insecurities
Adults can be mature but that done mean they have maturity
What's the difference between a believer and an atheist
One admits that he's blind, the other claims he sees the best
But I'm not here to play a judge or a jury
I'm just trying to execute the proper telling of my story
21 Years old, 21 years blessed
21 Years down, 21 years less
And none of us can see ahead how much time we got left
So ima make the most of it, I pour a drink and toast to it
Now what's the difference ‘tween a photographer and reporter
One gone tell all the lies, the other just record it
Both gone play the role in the destruction of a soul
Glamorizing loss of life, cop still on payroll
As I contemplate a life
Where all my choices and decisions yield the blessings of my children
Or the curses of them too
That's enough motivation to spur my legs to move
My heart to forgive wrong and my tongue to tell the truth
So ima tell my audience my truth inside this booth
As I go on 22, I'm the living breathing proof of what praying mothers do
Lord protect him on his ways
Help him submit his heart so you can lengthen out his days
You wanna know the difference ‘tween you love and you like
After all the wrong I've done the lord still ain't take my life
Though he would be justified clearly my life ain't mine
So I pray I find a better way to dedicate my time
What's the difference ‘tween twenty one and twenty two
Hopefully a lot, hopefully I'm closer to a man
Hopefully I'm not worse off than when I had first began
Hopefully I got plenty enough time to make amends
I stand beside my friends as a brother to a brother
As iron sharpens iron we gone cover one another
Sometimes I take for granted all the friendships, Is that bad?
Until somebody tell me I wish I had what you had
Now that's a harsh reminder that no everybody finds Real companions by they side
So if you got a couple hold and squeeze em tight
Offer all your love by day and pleasant sleep by night
Cuz the subtle difference tween see you later and goodbye Is easy
All it takes is not opening your eyes
Open up your phone and you text them a good morning
Just to enter into mourning when that coroner reply
A vanishing of life
So heed the wisdom of the people who been thru all that
Your parents and your elders, and your brothers and your sister
And your friends and your foes, every single door that close
Every window that lay open, Every card the dealer show
The difference ‘tween a missed and a gained opportunity
Could simply be growth under some pain and some scrutiny
Not everybody criticize to guide you straight on purpose
But if they speak the truth regardless exercise discernment
The sun is coming up and I'm just glad I get to see it
Change is coming soon and I'm just glad I get to see it
Season changing swiftly so its time that I've departed
Headed to the fields, I'm just tryna make the harvest
What's the difference ‘tween too soon and too late
Probably just four minutes when this song finish playing
And what's the difference between me and all of you
Twenty one years and you ain't walked a day inside my shoes