Wayside - Mick Jenkins

Fallin' to the wayside, I Don't want you to waste your time Lookin' for the daylight When all it does is strain my eyes Fallin' to the wayside, I Don't want you to waste your time Lookin' for the daylight When all it does is strain my eyes Fallin' from the pressure in this habitat You're sick of feelin' like the one these people laughin' at They tell you happy is the goal, but it gets hard when you're alone And what you give to make it out, you'll never have it back, yeah And you would think if he can see that, he would change it, right? But what identity is left if nothin' plagues his life Retreats into his room and blast the music loud It's like a trans-reality for the moment, that keeps him far away from daylight, daylight Not know what it's like to feel Like, why the fuck is there so much I gotta deal with Just to stay right, stay right? When everybody else is doin' fine on the factory settings Then what am I, huh? They're puttin' on the masks just to breathe slow Hard to be accepted when you won't attend the freak show So he slips into the comfort of the night By himself, where he spent his whole life Fallin' to the wayside, I Don't want you to waste your time Lookin' for the daylight When all it does is strain my eyes Fallin' to the wayside, I Don't want you to waste your time Lookin' for the daylight (Oh) When all it does is strain my eyes Welcome to the show, he's got nothin' to show for it Dreams don't pay, you gotta go for it Feelin' on top of the world, so steep he's barely breathin' Higher that you get the harder you fall and that's repeatin' Take a photo for all we used to know The ghost of the past, all our love was lost And maybe they'll never know That I've been fallin' to the wayside And I don't want you to waste your time Lookin' for the daylight When all it does is strain my eyes Fallin' to the wayside, I Don't want you to waste your time Lookin' for the daylight When all it does is strain my eyes Fallin' to the wayside, I Don't want you to waste your time Lookin' for the daylight (Daylight) When all it does is strain my eyes (My eyes) Fallin' to the wayside, I Don't want you to waste your time Lookin' for the daylight (Yeah) When all it does is strain my eyes Fallin' to the wayside, I (Daylight) Don't want you to waste your time (My eyes) Lookin' for the daylight All it does is strain my eyes

Standin on the corner with a nickel or a dime There used to be a railcar to take you down the line Too much beer and whiskey to ever be employed And when I got to Nashville it was too much soldier's joy Wasted on the wayside wasted on the way If I don't go tomorrow you know I'm gone today Back baby back in time I wanna go back when you were mine Back baby back in time I wanna go back when you were mine Black highway all night ride Watchin the towns fall away to the side Clear channel way down low Was comin in loud and my mind let go Peaches in the summertime apples in the fall If I can't have you all the time I won't have none at all Oh I wish I was in Frisco in a brand new pair of shoes I'm sittin' here in Nashville with Norman's Nashville blues So come all you good time rounders a-listenin' to my sound And drink a round to Nashville before they tear it down Back baby back in time I wanna go back when you were mine Back baby back in time I wanna go back when you were mine Hard weather drivin slow The buggies and the hacks in town for the show Oh darlin the songs they played Are all I got left of the love we made Back baby back in time I wanna go back when you were mine Back baby back in time I wanna go back when you were mine

Eyes on the horizon Braids down to her waist What a woman Long live Hailey Gates She said New year New you Same me Ooh, Hailey, Hailey She said New year New you Same me She plays the long game And she's got my money Ooh, Hailey, Hailey Ooh, Hailey, Hailey

I pray someday you'll, find what you need in this lifetime I know the way, so hard to see through the pipeline I pray someday you'll, find what you need in this lifetime I know the way, so hard to see through the pipeline Let it be, let it be (just) Let it be, let it be (oh just let it be) Let it be, let it be Let it be, let it be Let it be, let it be Ex the excess, keep the essence Keep on stepping Down the street from them greek picnics, we was nestling Chocolate babies, incubating, box of blessings Lead the way, tucked into mamas arms til' prepubescent If I was in it for the money, hell I done packed up for the evening I'd have lasted bout a summer Lord, I done held out for my season I'd have missed what I had coming I'd have pissed what I could stomach I done palmed out my daddy's Bible And sold grand daddy's people But, I don't got no dollars today But, I'm sure I can blessed you though Leap of faith, from Z to A, pray for me My efforts meet my hope I just need change for the better I just got drugs for the low I just got out of some trouble Can't get drug into some more You can tinker, check the starter Carborator, switch to premium Chopper pray up, chop your weave But it don't work if you don't believe Crack the water, drop your seed Blessed when son called your daddy home Can't no love cause you won't receive Can't have nothing 'til you let it go I pray someday, you'll find what you need in this lifetime I know the way, so hard to see through the pipeline I pray someday, I'm what you need in this lifetime I know the way, so hard to see through the pipeline They lied to me Yeah, they told me I could fly Yeah, straight up past the sky Wasn't talking my pigment Wasn't talking my partners Wasn't talking my niggas That truth as loud as nine choppas Now its rich or die tryin' Now we live in pine boxes Aye, fuck that though, I'm still shining Out the barrel, hoe, I'm still climbing, still slipping Waitress hit me with the Mike Jones, I'm still tipping She working seven days a week, lil mama still stripping Still stressing, still getting it how she live, no wheels No they won't call that legendary That's why I could never do it so casually Any moment I could be another casualty In the Gucci store, they ask "Just browsing?" I told the bitch purchasing actually I take three laps 'round the store and get back to me I might've calmed down by then But maybe not, ya'll made me hot Twelve hundred for the sweater, I'm in the mother fucking Marriot Eating carriot, gang bang, maintain, corporate do the same thing With the same they just carry that, so I just carry that Three K for the 14K, low-key, never carry knots Better know I got the rope though Spread love by the beaucoup, recouped by the boat load And the quotient is quotes that will give you close ups on the action Get what you, get what you, get what you need Get what you, get what you, get what you need Get what you, get what you, get what you need Get what you, get what you, get what you need Get what you, get what you, get what you need Get what you, get what you, get what you need Get what you, get what you, get what you need Get what you, get what you, get what you need Sometimes, sometimes when the weather real shitty And the wind shield wipers and the music on the same beat as I ride through the city Peep the ghost of my nigga posted up on the same street that he died in the city Made my mind go a mile a minute Everyone in a million is a dime a dozen Cryin' and puffin' Kinda busting, now it's all or nothing Tough decisions, nip it in the bud Grew up in the city with all my cousins Hard to find a nigga that's not my blood We was thinking out the box so whatever Now them hoes that was tryna dog us, tryna faux with us Where was you when smoking at the parking lot, freestyling on the Marta bus I got a brand new hand full of angels this year Ain't no big deal, the game don't sit still Even though Atlanta tough, make it happen Even though I'm going at it with a passion No sleep, but I fill up the mattress Pull up on your bitch when she sick of your crab shit She get dug out like batting practice Fuck satisfaction, I really hope you get what you need I pray someday you'll, find what you need in this lifetime I know the way, so hard to see through the pipeline I pray someday you'll, find what you need in this lifetime I know the way, so hard to see through the pipeline Get what you need Get what you need Get what you need Get what you, get what you, get what you need Get what you need Get what you need Get what you need Get what you, get what you, get what you need