Better Than This (feat. Tellaman) - Select Play, Nasty C & Manana

Is this what you meant? Is this what you dreamed of? When you were making your plans Shaking the dirt off? Do you feel like You and I belong? (Oh woah oh!) Just keep your eyes on the road And nothing can go wrong You can do so much better than this You can do so much better than this I've been checking my sums Oh where did the time go? Holding my photograph Up to the window Through the paper And refracted sun (Oh woah oh!) I can see all the things I wish that I'd done You can hang your hopes on the medicine (On the medicine) You can put your faith in the phone in (In the phone in) You can tell yourself you're doing your best (Doing your best) You can so much better than this (Better than this) Get a grip on yourself Get a grip on yourself Could've been something, but you're too late And you weren't invited anyway 'Cause the photograph showed the wrong man (Showed the wrong man) 'Cause there is no soap star holding your hand (Holding your hand) You don't see yourself in the freeze frame (In the freeze frame) Must be someone else using your name (Using your name) And everyone will be the same And everyone will glow And everywhere you'll see your name In every shop window It's better than this You can do so much better than this You can do so much better than this You can do so much better than this

When the lights in my street go out and All the people lie sleeping under clouds and They're dreaming of better than this Then my brother calls me and he's sayin' Oh, I can hear the angels praying That we can do better than this 'Cause I saw a mountain, I thought it's too high I heard the birds whisper, "You can't fly" I saw you and I knew I can do better than this, better than this I heard a language I thought I can't speak I saw an ocean I thought was too deep I see you and I know we can do better than this, better than this And I know you'll take me anywhere I wanna go And I know you'll make me learn everything that I wanna know The truth of it is, it doesn't get better than this When the riddles and the puzzles find me I wanna let the darkness hide me But I know there is better than this And I'm shouting 'cause I see my failings My fears, my faults, I'm raging 'Cause I know that I'm better than this 'Cause I saw a mountain, I thought it's too high I heard the birds whisper, "You can't fly" I saw you and I knew I can do better than this, better than this I heard a language I thought I can't speak I saw an ocean I thought was too deep I see you and I know we can do better than this, better than this And I know you'll take me anywhere I wanna go And I know you'll make me learn everything that I wanna know The truth of it is, it doesn't get better than this The truth of it is, it doesn't get better than this Only when we discover, that's when we find each other That's when we both get better than this

Cold dry wind blowing on your skin Frigid air and your messy hair I love this And I'll miss this Each step forward we leave behind The memories We made here Together Will you remember me When you leave Or will I just be someone you wrote a song with In September When the weather Was better than this Small white house But you're not around It's empty But not really There's a family there But I just don't care It's empty I'm empty Do you remember me In Sicily Or am I just somebody you wrote a song with In September Oh when I was Doing better than this Doing better Doing better Doing better than this Doing better Doing better Doing better than this Do you remember me In Sicily Oh I'm so glad I was the one you wrote that song with In September Oh I hope you're Doing better than this

Yeah Okay, okay, okay, ayy (ayy) Damn, talk, hmm Hmm (yeah) Ayy, ayy, yeah, damn, damn Ayy, drama and stress Chasing me down on a highway express Bless the beggars, on my right and my left Bless the beggars, living right in my texts I'm getting all the money, not all the rest I hope every single person that need me Learn how to fly and jump out of they nest Land on a blessing, let God do the rest 99 problems and most of them real Some of them really just all in my head I'm letting go of happiness for a pill I'm tryna find some happiness in a pill Validation, is a drug Even niggas following us, ayy Tell 'em to follow they gut, ayy I'm swimming in money 'cause I never swam as a kid And I thought I'd be dumb as a bitch A house with a pool is a dream that I left in my bed 'Cause I wasn't supposed to be shit Lucky for me, I was curious, y'all call it ADHD 'Til I decided to squeeze a thought That I could one day be rich maybe I be tryna tell 'em, I do not need no treatment I just need for you to treat me like I'm human Like we even, we equal Breathing, feeling (feeling, feeling) Ayy, yeah, ayy Touch down '97, ayy February 11, ayy God said, "Let there be motherfucker That's gon' stand right up and ask some questions, ayy Don't take no direction, ayy Then make everybody else a sucker for attention, ayy" I don't walk on water, no But some people praise me, ayy Do I even like it? No Do I really hate it? Ayy I been going through it and the magic word is "through" Found myself in all the bullshit, then I flushed the residue Now a young nigga so driven, I got mileage for days Life is pussy, pussy's good but sometimes it's okay Yeah, sometimes it get average I swear Haha, yeah I be spittin' fire like a dragon, you a angry bird Mad at my wings instead of your own Hating on me and loving my clones You hating my pics but mimic the pose Throw me in the ditch, then later realize you planted a rose That's why I stay in a planet of my own, and I mind mine Promise you, if I don't die a legend, I'ma die trying I don't see no stop signs Ain't no such on cloud nine When y'all say the names of our legends, y'all better shout mine Everybody got an opinion, they wanna outline Niggas made the worst of decisions, then wanna doubt mine Everything looks simple 'cause y'all looking from the outside Go control your own blessings, nigga, let me count mine

I used to have Jack, in the fridge and the bank, I'm not goin' back I had bed bugs, I had roaches and rats, I'm not goin' back Makin' this cheese cannot be this easy, there must be a catch I'm spendin' and makin it back So maybe it's balance in that I used to have Jack, in the fridge and the bank, I'm not goin' back I had bed bugs, I had roaches and rats, I'm not goin' back Making' this cheese cannot be this easy, there must be a catch I'm spendin' and makin it back So maybe it's balance in that (I used to have Jack) They know I switch the time zone and Bring this shit home, they tippin' they hats I don't want nothin' in return from None of my bro's for scratchin' they backs Some people wanna be clones, to each his own, go get you some racks They goin' nowhere too fast Only God knows how they crash Soon as I found me a window, I got in where I fit in If I make somebody a widow, she gon' have her some millis More money more problems but fuck it we'll take it When we used to be broke it was shitty Can't be a nobody in my own city I ride like the mayor, my windows is tinted These people ain't playin' my songs out of pity They actually genuinely fuckin' with me They pay me in tens, twenties, hundreds, fifties I'm takin' it all cash, I ain't picky Don't give me no hard pass, let me figure it out I'm not a liability nigga I hustle like I got a mini-me nigga It's Tall Racks til infinity I used to have Jack, in the fridge and the bank, I'm not goin' back I had bed bugs, I had roaches and rats, I'm not goin' back Makin' this cheese cannot be this easy, there must be a catch I'm spendin' and makin it back So maybe it's balance in that I used to have Jack, in the fridge and the bank, I'm not goin' back I had bed bugs, I had roaches and rats, I'm not goin' back Makin' this cheese cannot be this easy, there must be a catch I'm spendin' and makin it back So maybe it's balance in that (I used to have...)