Customs - KOTA The Friend.mp3

[00:16.94]Hey love
[00:19.63]You came a long way from
[00:23.78]Sitting in train stations
[00:28.03]Staring at strange faces
[00:32.98]Eat good food, drink good drink
[00:35.33]I walk around acting like my shit don't stink
[00:37.39]Seen bad days, seen bad weeks
[00:39.43]I done mad wrong, tryna make my peace
[00:41.59]I been real low, I been real high
[00:43.58]Used to hit the lab making beats till 5
[00:45.63]In the morning
[00:46.23]And recording by the time it turned 6
[00:47.73]Feeling sick but I know I'm finna get my shine
[00:49.73]And this shit here, this all me
[00:51.89]If I'm gon' fail it's gon' be on me
[00:53.94]And niggas always gonna try to throw you mad shade
[00:56.04]So f**k it then I might as well be under palm trees
[00:58.04]In the Caribbean cruising on the calm seas
[01:00.10]With a couple bad b*****s looking at me raunchy
[01:02.16]Got my lady on my side, and that ass on me
[01:04.16]We be riding through the city till the gas on "E"
[01:06.36]Hey love
[01:08.62]You came a long way from
[01:13.62]Sitting in train stations
[01:17.73]Staring at strange faces
[01:24.03]I'm a simple man
[01:24.99]Gone fishing on a lake, in a distant land
[01:26.99]And I don't really care for the lavish life
[01:28.94]I turn up in the crib, that's the facts of life
[01:31.00]I'm just me
[01:31.93]My name Kota, no acronym
[01:33.69]No synonym and no antonym
[01:35.04]There were so many before him
[01:36.38]And there will be even more after him
[01:38.13]I'm just a drop in a bucket, I know
[01:40.51]I'm on a roof, sipping on 100 proof
[01:43.01]Used to eat oodles and noodles
[01:44.67]And leave out with holes in my shoes
[01:46.23]Sad because I wasn't cool
[01:47.77]But thank you to all of the kids
[01:49.32]That told me I couldn't play ball
[01:50.92]'Cause I ain't have Jordan's, I had to conform
[01:52.73]So people would love me
[01:54.03]But now I'm in some other country where everyone love me
[01:56.53]So ooh!
[01:57.09]Hey love
[01:59.69]You came a long way from
[02:04.01]Sitting in train stations
[02:08.05]Staring at strange faces
[02:13.30]Oh you always think somebody owe you
[02:15.50]Looking for the handout, mad when they zoe you
[02:17.56]Claim that you real when you fake like tofu
[02:19.61]Niggas like you always seem to stay local
[02:21.51]Young niggas mad emo and mad vocal
[02:23.61]But I understand if you tell me it's the old you
[02:25.81]Imma drop gems like I'm Avatar Roku
[02:27.86]So listen up close if nobody ever told you
[02:29.85]You gotta earn your stripes
[02:31.81]You gotta build up the nerve to fight
[02:33.35]You gotta work the nights and think smart
[02:35.02]Homie learn this life in cold weather when it hurts to bite
[02:37.41]You gotta push through
[02:38.36]And you can flex when your funds is official
[02:40.11]For now you get sonned like you Malcolm in the Middle
[02:42.16]And if you got a issue get yo head up in the game
[02:44.32]Drop bombs on them dudes waving guns against you, uhh
[02:46.82]Hey love
[02:48.72]You came a long way from
[02:53.68]Sitting in train stations
[02:57.82]Staring at strange faces
[03:02.90]Hey love
[03:06.04]You came a long way from
[03:10.28]Sitting in train stations
[03:14.40]Staring at strange faces