Dead and Gone

Oh, I've been travelin' on this road too long
Just trying to find my way back home
The old me is dead and gone
Dead and gone
Oh, I've been travelin' on this road too long
Just trying to find my way back home
The old me is dead and gone
Dead and gone


Ever had one of them days you wish you would have stayed home
Run into a group of niggas gettin' their hate on
You walk by, they get wrong, you reply then shit get blown
Way outta proportion way past discussion
Just you against them, pick one then rush them
Figure you get jumped here that's next
They don’t wanna stop there now they bustin'

Now u gushin', ambulance rushin'
You to the hospital with a bad concussion
Plus ya hit four times bullet hit yo spine
Paralyzed waist down and ya wheel chair bound
Nevermind that now you lucky to be alive
Just thinkin' it all started fussin' with three guys
Now ya pride in the way but ya pride is the way you could fuck around get shot die anyday

Niggas die everyday, all little bullshit
Dope money, dice games, ordinary hood shit
Could this be cuz of hip hop music
Or did the ones with the good sense not use it?
Usually niggas don’t know when they back against the wall
So they just start shootin'
For red or for blue or for blow I guess
From Bankhead at the old projects

No more stress, now I'm straight
Now I get it, now I take time to think
Before I make mistakes just for my family stake
That part of me left yesterday
The heart of me is strong today
No regrets I'm blessed to say
The old me dead and gone away


Oh, I've been travelin' on this road too long
Just trying to find my way back home
The old me is dead and gone
Dead and gone
Oh, I've been travelin' on this road too long
Just trying to find my way back home
The old me is dead and gone
Dead and gone



I ain't neva been scared, I live through tragic
Situations coulda been dead lookin' back at it
Most of that shit didn’t even have to happen
But you don’t think about it when you out there trappin'
In apartments hangin smokin' and rappin'
Niggas start shit next thing ya know we cappin'
Get locked up then didnt even get mad
Now think about damn what a life I had

Most of that shit look back just laugh
Some shit still look back get sad
Maybe my home boy still be around
Had I not hit the nigga in the mouth that time
I won that fight, I lost that war
I can still see my nigga walkin' out that door
Who’da thought I’d never see Philant no more
Got enough dead homies I don’t want no more

Cost a nigga his jump, cost me more
I'd a took that ass-whoopin' now for sure
Now think before I risk my life
Take them chances to get my stripe
A nigga put his hands on me alright
Otherwise stand there talk shit all night
Cuz I hit you , you sue me,
I shoot you, get locked up, who me?


No more stress, now I'm straight
Now I get it, now I take time to think
Before I make mistakes just for my family stake
That part of me left yesterday
The heart of me is strong today
No regrets I'm blessed to say
The old me dead and gone away

Oh, I've been travelin' on this road too long
Just trying to find my way back home
The old me is dead and gone
Dead and gone
Oh, I've been travelin' on this road too long
Just trying to find my way back home
The old me is dead and gone
Dead and gone


I turn my head to the east
I don’t see nobody by my side
I turn my head to the west
Still nobody in sight
So I turn my head to the north
Swallow that pill that they call pride
That old me's dead and gone,
But the new me'll be alright
I turn my head to the east
I don’t see nobody by my side
I turn my head to the west
Still nobody in sight
So I turn my head to the north
Swallow that pill that they call pride
That old me's dead and gone,
But the new me'll be alright


Oh, I've been travelin' on this road too long
Just trying to find my way back home
The old me is dead and gone
Dead and gone
Oh, I've been travelin' on this road too long
Just trying to find my way back home
The old me is dead and gone
Dead and gone