It all started innocent enough
Just a couple kids tryna live it up
Was it talent or just dumb luck?
I never did get ahead a couple holes that I had dug
There's no solace the folly of love
Pretended it didn't hurt but it really does
We were young once
Young enough not to see what the world does
Young enough to think that we would never be washed up
When it stepped in sh**, hit the pot love
Man the funny thing about success is that
Even your own bloodline can come to resent it
And all I ever did was want to make you proud
Busted my a** just to put these records out and
Even your tears couldn't make me change
Never get back the gears that I gave away
Well it's not my fault that you should feel hurt in any way
Oh its no excuse, no remorse, let the chips fall as they may
I was raised on the dust of my dad's dreams
And he stayed for his family
Never a man of means but over the years showed me exactly
What being a man means
That's something I carry with me always
Kind of like soul rappers from the old days
There's a heart in the crack and its not supposed to be disposed of
Or thrown away
I gave it everything I had in me
And yes there is damage in my absence
Lost friends who left too soon tragically
Our little habits evolved into madness
Into craide and caskets
Shadow over all of our caskets
And it would've festered an abcess
Finally moving on from the past tense
Well it's not my fault that you should feel hurt in any way
Oh its no excuse, no remorse, let the chips fall as they may
We found hope in a hell or place (?)
I was raised on the dust of my dad's dreams
We found home in another way
I was raised on the dust of my dad's dreams
We found hope in hell or place
But you can't forgive me
We found home in another way
But you deem me unworthy
Well it's not my fault that you should feel hurt in any way
Oh its no excuse, no remorse, let the chips fall as they may
We found hope in hell or place
We found home in another way
We found hope in hell or place
I was raised in the dust of my dad's dreams
We found home in another way