Castle Walls-T.I./Christina Aguilera

[ti:Castle Walls] [ar:T.I.] [al:No Mercy (Deluxe)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.59]Everyone thinks that I have it all [00:03.71]But it's so empty living behind these castle walls [00:09.46] [00:10.45]These castle walls [00:12.66] [00:14.47]If I should tumble if I should fall [00:17.81]Would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls [00:22.93] [00:23.80]There's no-one here at all' behind these castle walls [00:29.92] [00:41.33]Observing the estate through the gate from the outside looking in [00:45.41]Bet you would think I got it made' better look again [00:48.23]I got buttler' got a maid' and a mansion [00:50.84]The belief is that I'm living out a millionaires fantasy [00:53.49]With pantoms and ferrari's in the driveway [00:56.19]But you see the pain and the change of the same man's [00:59.42] [01:00.11]Your vision jaded by the grammy's on the mantelpiece [01:02.98]Just switch your camera lenses you would see the agony [01:05.85]Apparantly it's damaging the man you see before you [01:08.59]On the canvas he may seem alright but all the diasadvantages his family [01:12.23]Encounters overpowers his extravagance [01:14.23]Walk in my I dare you [01:15.94]While it really seem like the kings life aint glamourous [01:20.81]As seen through the eyes of untrained amateurs [01:23.74]Because the camera's don't see beyond the walls of the smiles [01:26.93]Only counts until it falls in the pile [01:28.86]Everyone thinks that I have it all [01:31.67]But it's so empty living behind these castle walls [01:36.50] [01:37.25]These castle walls [01:39.51] [01:40.45]If I should tumble if I should fall [01:43.52]Would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls [01:48.45]There's no-one here at all' behind these castle walls [01:53.57]Honestly to me' I think I'd lose every benefit of all that I've accomplished [01:57.44]If my key is never with it' sh-t [01:59.68]Me knowing this' why should the verses I have laid [02:02.12]Be more important to me than the persons I have raised [02:05.05]I guess I'm saying that to say that ooportunity [02:07.98]But they just don't equate to all the time they take away [02:10.62]From the kids all the sh-t I did right is a mistake [02:13.50]If deyjah end up a stripper and major slinging yay [02:16.51] [02:17.10]How could I ever consider myself a great [02:19.72]If messiah ain't paid and nique nique ain't straight [02:22.65]Would your favourite song about the whips' money and sh-t [02:25.29]Be relevant if you found out' the money wasn't real' nope [02:29.86]So me being the goat shouldn't mean more to me [02:33.06]Than see it to a king though [02:34.75]From a bad a** kid to man with some dough [02:37.24]Otherwise I may well have stayed poor [02:39.75]So while they stay focused on me beefin with flip'Shawty low' [02:42.45]Gucci or ludacrisOr if I'm f-cking with a hoe [02:45.89]Did I snitch when I got arrested or will I die over nonesense [02:49.50]Internally I'm dealing with this conflict [02:51.81]So excuse me if I don't get the chance to kiss the hand [02:55.18]Or slap me in the face' ay I' m just the man [02:58.12]If they saying I ain't the best at making hit records [03:00.67] [03:01.34]It's cause this my life these ain't just rapping [03:03.92]Sh-t' you think of that deep' did ya dawg [03:06.62]See you can't see the castle through the walls till it falls [03:09.88]B**ch ain't thinking with the deep' did ya dog [03:13.07]Cause see you can't see the castle through the walls till it falls [03:15.82]Everyone thinks that I have it all [03:18.31]But it's so empty living behind these castle walls [03:22.87] [03:23.88]These castle walls [03:26.30] [03:27.12]If I should tumble if I should fall [03:30.17]Would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls [03:34.41] [03:35.10]There's no-one here at all' behind these castle walls [03:40.23]Nobody knows I'm all alone [03:42.50]Living in this castle made of stone [03:45.51]They say that money is freedom but I feel trapped inside it all [03:50.95]And while I sit so high up on a throne [03:54.34]I wonder how I can feel this low [03:57.27]On top of the world it's beautiful [04:00.08]But there's no place to fall [04:02.63]For the record ay' I give a damn if I never said sh*t again [04:06.25]My career was meant for me to come and tell it [04:08.87]Honest interpretation of how affected I'm faced with [04:12.18]Matters most rappers used to keep locked away in the basement [04:15.24]The day that I walk I ain't saying that I'm amazing [04:18.05]Down playing the way I keep fellas from catching cases [04:20.93]Won't take into consideration how much it mean what I'm saying [04:23.96]And when I say what I mean even when I'm sorrounded by the fakers [04:27.08]From one of the greatest centers' blessed with most of god's graces [04:30.26]Who made his way amongst the greatest from the grimiest places [04:33.06]So next time you rating royalty' I'm always being given to recordings than the level [04:38.30]Of your loyalty' obvious you've been ignoring me [04:41.24]Who else ya seen make it through the storm' unharmed disjointed [04:43.98] [04:45.32]While all the critics was looking for prince charming [04:47.82]Disregarded the king of the south raised doubt [04:50.44]Even though he made a castle out of used to be a house [04:53.50]He did sh-t that all your favourites rappers only rap about [04:56.51]But most of y'all don't see the castle through the walls [04:59.65]And the smiles till it falls in piles so while... [05:01.97]Everyone thinks that I have it all [05:04.90]But it's so empty living behind these castle walls [05:09.47] [05:10.54]These castle walls [05:12.78] [05:13.90]If I should tumble if I should fall [05:17.09]Would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls [05:21.14] [05:21.76]There's no-one here at all' behind these castle walls