Living to paycheck to paycheck
At least I got a paycheck
I used to say that
While I used to pray that
I would find a way out
I done rapped, scammed,
Clocked in and Parlayed
Somehow I Went from utility, rent, and car payments
To no food to eat and no crib to stay in
Sleeping out in broad daylight
Like it’s a days inn
All my faith was fading
I’d be lying if I said that
It didn’t phase me
New barista at the cafe looking at my crazy
Cuz I’m looking homeless
I been coming here for years now it's what you ordering
I ain’t got no money so for once I planned on loitering
The gentrifiers gazed way l left like they deported him
Don’t know if its this or that I don’t have an apartment
But I’m feeling displaced ever since I left the city
I been feeling dismissed this what loneliness is
This what homelessness is
So whenever they ask, I’m a digital nomad
I was just in the streets but they don’t need to know that
Got the same jeans from yesterday but you can ignore that
I was a step away from a toe tag
Living to paycheck to paycheck
At least I got a paycheck
I used to say that
While I used to pray that
I would find a way out
I done rapped, scammed,
Clocked in and Parlayed
Somehow I Went from utility, rent, and car payments
To no food to eat and no crib to stay in
Sleeping out in broad daylight
Like it’s a days inn
All my faith was fading
I’d be lying if I said that
It didn’t phase me
I’d be fraud if I didn’t help the ones that saved me
Spin the block on the fam show them something foreign
Had to go around the country but I wasn’t touring
Couple cities felt like home now I’m feeling torn
I just wanna exercise the gift that I was born with
But I gotta sit with all the trauma I was born with
And I gotta buy my freedom from the world we born in
Preoccupied with survival fuck what else important
And know it’s wrong deep down but can’t afford to switch
Cuz rent is due, the phone is off, the lights is on but not for long
But even at the darkest I'mma write the brightest songs
Even though I'm
Living to paycheck to paycheck
At least I got a paycheck
I used to say that
While I used to pray that
I would find a way out
I done rapped, scammed,
Clocked in and Parlayed
Somehow I Went from utility, rent, and car payments
To no food to eat and no crib to stay in
Sleeping out in broad daylight
Like it’s a days inn
All my faith was fading
I’d be lying if I said that
It didn’t phase me
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