Sojourner-Rapsody/J. Cole

[ti:Sojourner (Explicit)] [ar:Rapsody/J. Cole] [al:9th Wonder Presents: Jamla Is The Squad II] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Sojourner (Explicit) - Rapsody/J. Cole [00:00.12]Produced by：9th Wonder [00:00.25]Aba ba ba ba ba ba [00:02.72]Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah [00:05.69]Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah [00:08.65]Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah [00:11.85]Mhmm mhmm mhmm [00:23.69]Is you did it go [00:26.69]Oh I swam for miles [00:28.95]Only to realize the current [00:32.13]Is fightin' against me and I'm so tired [00:35.09]I'm floatin' now [00:35.71]Is you did it go [00:38.32]Oh from here on out [00:40.64]I've got to realize the power [00:43.86]Of learnin' to let go and just let God [00:46.59]Enjoy the ride [00:47.75]Born into pain alcoholic veins [00:50.56]Over-analytical brain a product of the shame [00:53.50]And runnin' from a past that's checkered like the game [00:56.44]Somewhere 'long the way somebody snatched my peace and main [00:59.36]Maybe that's the reason I spent decades seekin' fame [01:02.24]And fortune hopin' that a proper portion would contain [01:05.16]The sadness in my eyes remember when I came [01:08.06]In this music business all their questions was insane [01:11.08]Why you never smile in your pictures I refrain [01:14.05]From givin' you the answer 'cause that answer wasn't plain [01:16.99]Enough for me to see 'cause [01:18.19]At the time I knew my name [01:19.98]But didn't know myself and so [01:21.29]I dealt with s**t the same [01:22.92]As a fugitive but running from the truth and s**t [01:25.38]I shoot the s**t with n***as [01:26.62]But they never knew the s**t that's hidden deep [01:28.88]Within the crevices like ever since I was a child [01:31.58]Seen my mama with the pistol pointed at her dome and how [01:34.55]In the f**k do you expect for [01:35.89]Me to ever be the best lil' me [01:37.74]That I can be when trauma's deep inside of me like IV [01:40.18]Fluid Pumpin' through the blood of wifey [01:42.21]While she's givin' birth [01:43.09]To my child I know my thoughts are runnin' wild [01:45.53]Bear with my style this just a trial run [01:47.64]Just heard these kids don't know 'bout Malcolm [01:49.11]And I'm sort of heartbroken [01:50.83]'Cause the elders lost hope in our youth [01:52.85]And here I sit dead in the middle [01:54.33]Not a little boy no more [01:55.71]But not quite old yet wakin' up in cold sweats [01:58.27]Scared that I'm too disconnected from the kids' perspective [02:01.26]The world ain't got no patience [02:02.52]For some s**t that's introspective [02:04.23]So where in the f**k that leave me [02:05.89]Irrelevant I guess [02:07.12]Went from heaven-sent to hella bent [02:08.64]Intelligent but stressed d**n [02:10.31]Is you did it go [02:13.19]Oh I swam for miles [02:15.67]Only to realize the current [02:18.65]Is fightin' against me and I'm so tired [02:21.68]I'm floatin' now [02:22.22]Is you did it go [02:24.75]Oh from here on out [02:27.14]I've got to realize the power [02:30.38]Of learnin' to let go and just let God [02:33.11]Enjoy the ride [02:34.63]Uh [02:35.26]Swim good enjoy the ride yeah [02:36.78]Every day I rise thank God that I am alive yeah [02:40.50]Yeah swim good enjoy the ride yeah [02:42.82]Every day I rise thank God that I am alive uh [02:46.62]Permanent vacation for forever [02:48.78]Some things you gotta leave behind [02:50.11]Some people just like weather [02:51.67]And seasons for that reason [02:52.96]I know I'll always have a leg up [02:54.58]Weatherman forecast me dead last [02:55.99]Think I'm just another n***a [02:57.70]Maybe I'll be the next Black Beatle like Swae Lee [03:00.69]Yeah I know my worth [03:01.59]These colonizers got to pay me [03:03.59]Yeah I had to go first [03:04.73]'Cause the rest would never last [03:06.48]I had to show the positives [03:07.99]For those that couldn't add [03:09.50]Lookin' at the ads [03:10.78]They only love us if our a*s [03:12.45]Out and so I'm out [03:13.52]I got an Audi and it's bad [03:15.34]I said that line 'cause n***as [03:16.51]Only respect you if you brag [03:18.26]It don't work on me the same [03:19.36]Don't give a f**k 'bout what you have [03:21.16]Everybody claimin' boss none of you n***as got no staff [03:24.13]It don't measure up the same [03:25.77]What's a quarter to a half [03:27.13]Of a whole lot of problems [03:28.46]N***a who taught you to add [03:30.00]Where I'm from we don't [03:31.05]Recognize that it's good math [03:32.83]If you don't teach the ones [03:33.87]That's comin' up to multiply their cash [03:35.96]Think for themselves think beyond sales [03:39.06]Everything with worth don't [03:40.09]Come with some whistles and some bells [03:41.83]The ones I gotta leave behind [03:43.44]The ones you gotta bail [03:44.92]Meek Mill I'm workin' hard [03:46.10]Ain't too far from a meek mil' [03:47.47]To keep it real the realest [03:48.83]N***as I know always kept it real [03:50.83]And I'ma tell you Black-on-Black murder been whack [03:53.88]9th turn me up so they can hear me in the back [03:57.34]Yeah and that's pretty hard for me [03:59.75]But you see hopeful n***as [04:00.94]And where they all ought to be [04:02.41]Scared to grow wings [04:03.62]Birdman with a bunch of Carter beef [04:05.59]That's old news look n***a [04:06.94]You talkin' to modern me [04:08.47]Smarter we had better conversations sittin' with barbers [04:11.24]Puttin' hearts and heads in n***as [04:12.77]Who don't think ahead who taught you [04:14.84]School y'all school y'all welcome to the schoolyard [04:17.52]Teach you how to make moves without needin' a you-haul [04:20.52]I was on you all when I was growin' up [04:23.18]Now it's you all that's all on these nuts [04:25.43]I'm ballin' havin' a ball and [04:27.27]I got the balls to say it [04:28.71]Who needs inspiration where [04:30.15]You know when you can play it [04:31.47]Carolina to the heart nobody here gon' play us [04:34.40]The day that we expire [04:35.90]Carolina's where they'll lay us [04:37.39]I woke up feelin' like Aaliyah [04:39.18]Yeah a million and one bucks [04:41.01]Told these n***as I don't give [04:42.16]A single million and one f**k rap [04:44.18]Is you did it go [04:46.86]Oh I swam for miles [04:49.54]Only to realize the current [04:52.58]Is fightin' against me and I'm so tired [04:55.50]I'm floatin' now [04:55.99]Is you did it go [04:58.58]Oh from here on out [05:00.98]I've got to realize the power [05:04.29]Of learnin' to let go [05:05.64]And just let God [05:07.29]Enjoy the ride