Tell Me You Get Lonely - Frankie Ballard

Hey rich man, won't you please give up? Tell me where you get it! Hey rich man, won't you please give up? Tell me where you get it! The river of gold, is flowing in Ethiopia My fore mothers and fathers too They're sons and daughters of the same side Putting them, you drive them a-way They know how to fe-give me Tell me now, hey rich man Tell me where you get it! How come you store basket so full, and mine Tell me where you get it! Hey Jacob upstairs, he's a been a rest Jacob upstairs, while, he's a on a tell-I (seller?) Tell me now, won't you drop an' give the poor a rest Tell me where you get it! Took, took and give the poor some food Tell me where you get it! (.) Jacob upstairs, he's a been a rest Jacob upstairs, while, he's a on a tell-I (seller?) Tell me now, is that really fair? Tell me where you get it! Rastafari investigating this condition Tell me where you get it! Draw up some more and give the poor a chance Tell me where you get it! Sister Mary, poor thing dem pam police Den I dem beat me that you through to your dog Tell me where you get it! Poor thing Sister Mary she, have nothing to eat Ha, she have got to eat as I defended (?) Burglar through the night now Tell me now, hey rich man Tell me where you get it! Get up, get up and turn and do good, woohooo Tell me where you get it! Jah send I as messenger to warn you Tell me where you get it! Jacob upstairs, he's a been a rest (look at Ja(co)b) Jacob upstairs, while, he's a on a tell-I (?) Tell me now, rich man won't you please give up Tell me where you get it! Dop di dop, gidi bop dop now Tell me where you get it! A why, you a (have) a belly full now (?) Tell me where you get it! Ease up in that room And give her a chance in the back room Tell me where you get it! Some a go sleep at night to while their bed so soft Tell me where you get it! Some defending, while some a defended Tell me where you get it!

It feels like I fell off I ask myself, If I wasn't doing this music Would I be better off or we'll off My biggest enemy's my inner me Paranoid by this anxiety That's living inside of me But I'll always show y'all the best side of me I'm tethered to this dream It's like this shit is tied to me They told me that I can't do this Its unrealistic, unattainable But I always figured that they'd try to lie to me Its a new decade, new era My vision couldn't be any clearer I'm coming up and I'm striking with terror I ain't living in the past My futures coming hella fast The presents a bitch It hurts but Imma let it pass Like the blunts with the homies If y'all think I'll ever stop Then you don't truly know me Won't let you all control me I can't be mediocre I'm tryna ride in Chauffeurs Mom thinks I'll be forty with nothing to show for Nothing to show her Well I'm finna show her All her hard work paid off Them bills will get paid off by me Make up for all the shit she couldn't buy me Born and raised a refugee Momma held it down she kept it G Lord knows my momma tried While battling her own demons inside Uneducated single mother of five Yah we barely survived Yet we made it alive Yah we switched up the tides Cause' I should not be alive See, this is God's test for me Now it's my testimony To make sure I don't switch up once I tasted money And If I do Imma ask that he takes it from me And If I do Imma ask that he takes it from me This the devils industry Full of devils in da' streets The same guy to pop a cap in me You'd think was feelin' me (Let me tell you) I ain't tryna be a one hit wonder I won't get slept on, I won't let y'all slumber (Let me tell you) I'ma keep dropping hits after hits every summer I drop singles on you like its thunder My time is near 2020 is my year Let me make this clear I'm locking down on this career for real Don't talk to me unless we talking business and statistics I got obstacles I'm tryna murder on my hit list I'm a hit man, I'm making hits man Watching rhythm and flow I'm taking tips man, from Tip, man You either with me or against me You better pick man If you don't fuck with my shit don't worry I won't trip man I don't do that no more Numbers going up, but I need more In five years top I'll be selling out tours I ain't a sell out But I want my shows to sell out Tryna be stuck in your mind like Jordan peels' get out I cook this music out from nothing like its alchemy I suggest these labels start looking out for me I don't practice writing and flow I just write and let it flow I don't overwrite the beat I just write it slow I don't override the beat I just ride it slow This shit natural to me That's my work flow I wrote this song just off the raw sample No drum loops or melody, just raw samples A glimpse of my creative mind for example I'm on my hustle and my grind, that's what I stand for When I think back a lot of people made an impact Like James Ko, who wants me to succeed like Bezos Shout out to all my big bro's Who kept me going And taught me to pursue my big dreams and big goals So fuck until my idols are my rivals Imma take my idols titles Put that on my mom, Put that on the bible This that new wave, and I ain't talking tidal I work hard for my shit, I was never born entitled Engineer producer solo artist, that's a triple threat Imma break the fucking internet And once I break into this industry, Imma be a major threat I'm hungry dawg, so what the fuck you expect And to the visionaries They hate us cause they ain't us Bunch of assholes mad we bout to be famous I can't allow myself to die nameless I shoot my goals up high While y'all shoot yours so aimless I ain't a priest, I don't fit into the mass Born to be different, fuck permission, I ain't gotta ask Y'all put the less in hopeless Y'all better fucking quote this When you give up too soon You'll never know what hope is Its written in the stars that Imma be a star Don't let other people tell you who the fuck you are Didn't listen to nobody and made it this far Cause' deep down you truly know who you are (Let me tell you) And you a star, you star (you a star) Yah, you a star, you a star (you a star) You a star, you a star man (you a star man) You a star you a star (you a star) To my younger self (Let me tell you) I'm proud of you and how far you came along And to my future self (Let me tell you) I'm catching up

Ooh get lonely Ooh get lonely tonight Ooh get lonely So get down, get down, get lonely with me Get down, get down, get lonely with me Well, I do this little thing where I take myself away And I take myself abroad but it ain't no holiday Well, I don't need petroleum and I don't need no power No, I don't need no fancy boots to get me from town to town I said ooh get lonely Ooh get lonely tonight Ooh get lonely So get down, get down, get lonely with me Get down, get down, get lonely with me Well, I'm making friends with strangers Making enemies of friends When you're living outside the rules, there are no rules to bend Well, I don't need no visitors and I don't need no queen No, I don't need reminding of familiarities I said, ooh get lonely Said, ooh get lonely tonight Ooh get lonely So get down, get down, get lonely with me Get down, get down, get lonely with me Get down, get down, get down, get down, get down, get down, get ooh Five hours on the wrong train Gonna wind up in the right place, baby Miles away from the dark days, he said If you won't forget me, I won't forget you Write it down on your hand now Don't break that It's time now Ooh get lonely Ooh get lonely tonight Ooh get lonely So get down, get down, get lonely with me Get down, get down, get lonely with me Ooh get lonely Ooh get lonely tonight Ooh get lonely So get down, get down, get lonely with me Get down, get down, get lonely with me

If you could see my mind If you really look deep in me Then you'll find That somewhere there will be a place Hidden behind my comedian face You will find somewhere there's a house And inside that house there's a room Locked in the room in the corner you see A voice is waiting for me to set it free I got the key, I got the key Voices, I hear voices In my head the voice is waiting Waiting for me to set it free I locked it inside my imagination But I'm the one who's got the combination Some people didn't like what the voice did say So I took the voice and I locked it away I got the key, I got the key Voices, I hear voices Voices, I hear voices Don't look back, look straight ahead Don't turn away, then the voice it said Don't look back, yesterday's gone Don't turn away, you can take it on Voices, I hear voices Voices, I hear voices Don't look back, look straight ahead Don't turn away, then the voice it said Don't look back, yesterday's gone Don't turn away, you can take it on Don't look back, look straight ahead Don't turn away, then the voice it said Don't look back, yesterday's gone Don't turn away, you can take it on Don't look back, look straight ahead Don't turn away, then the voice it said Don't look back, yesterday's gone Don't turn away, you can take it on Voices, voices, voices, voices Don't look back Voices, voices Don't look back, look straight ahead Don't turn away, then the voice it said Don't look back, yesterday's gone Don't turn away, you can take it on Don't look back, look straight ahead (voices) Don't turn away, then the voice it said (voices) Don't look back, yesterday's gone (voices) Don't turn away, you can take it on (voices)