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Produced by: Ron Gilmore |
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<Intro: J. Cole> |
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Yeah things change, things change |
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Things change, bitch |
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<Verse 1: J. Cole> |
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Pick up the pen, time to write my sins away |
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Right my wrongs and then life goes on |
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Bitches be calling, then mistakenly niggas be falling |
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I **** them and I leave them, forever picture me balling |
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With cash that I never had, I'm trying to stretch a million |
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Hoping it forever lasts, a fear of going broke |
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Cause most niggas I know can barely make the car note |
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Can barely keep the rent paid, so I'm like Da Vinci |
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Painting pictures to last centuries since like the 10th grade |
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Carolina niggas with New York plates |
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My template, switch states and swerve, mixtapes was served |
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Get cake, absurd, and has big plates, preferred |
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You heard, my every word |
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Potentially could free us all, now that's a heavy burden |
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Sometimes I'd rather get some head and watch my wealth grow |
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Cause things change, am I the same one you fell for? |
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One side screaming "hell no" other side holding on for dear life |
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Lately bitch I feel like, I ain't that young frail nigga that I used to be |
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Pardon my ways girl, I'm still getting used to me |
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Cause things change, I'm still getting used to me |
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I ain't that old shy nigga that I used to be |
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Bitches watching niggas plotting on me, truthfully |
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Gotta be careful what you wish for, as you can see |
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Things change |
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<Hook: T.S. Desandies, Yolanda Renée (J. Cole)> |
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Things change, it'll never be the same |
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I've never been the one to settle, it'll never be the same |
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(Yeah, things change) |
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Nothing ever stays the same, it'll never be the same |
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(Things change) |
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Nothing ever stays the same |
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<Verse 2: Omen> |
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I told you, raindrops do fall |
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But see, these clouds ain't the same that you saw |
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My memory banks got some pain to withdraw |
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I am not afraid, I am not unscathed and |
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Don't use bandaids but, back in the days I was stressing a grip |
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The only black in my class wondering, where do I sit? |
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College campus too fast, now depression exists |
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Like I'm less than equipped, feeling destined to quit |
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Then you appeared, made me see myself without a mirror |
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See, I never shared all the fears of my peers |
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I'm thinking about this African queen, loved her body |
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But she's more than just the back of her jeans, she's a magical dream |
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I fell hard with such a frail heart |
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She taught me that A***h was just her way to spell God |
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And she was my American pie, so cultured |
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Her intelligence ahead of her time, looked at my face |
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And with a smile called me Elephant Eyes, a secret nickname |
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Always seems to settle my mind, cause I guess it reminds me of you |
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Which reminds me of love, which reminds me of truth |
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Which is all the above, recently liquors in my body, it's all on my tongue |
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I changed into something they thought I'd never become |
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Give you my food for thought, it's more than a plate of soul food |
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If you wanna change, gotta escape your own rules |
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Things change, bitch |
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<Hook: T.S. Desandies,Yolanda Renée (J. Cole)> |
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Things change, it'll never be the same |
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I've never been the one to settle, it'll never be the same |
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(Yeah, things change) |
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Nothing ever stays the same, it'll never be the same |
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(Things change) |
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Nothing ever stays the same |
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(Things change baby) |
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Hey |
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