Devils Jaw - Tom The Mail Man

Yeah, yeah

Look

So far, the rapper life is overrated

I only started ventin' lyrically 'cause I need savin' (Savin')

Somehow the ship got flipped and I’m positioned as a savior (Savior)

Don’t know if they know but they really doin' me a favor (Me a favor)

I used to sit back in the classroom wonderin' what I could do with life (Life)

Thinkin' if I got into somethin' then I should do it right

Fights inside the house would have me pantin'

Practically kill that romantic fantasy that used to play out in my head at night

We was too broke for love (Love)

We was too broken up (Up)

We ain’t have family structure

Hate that I soaked it up

Now that I’m older, don’t even know if I could hold it down (Down)

Every relationship that I started, I would throw it out, I’ll throw it out and

Tried to look up to the lord when shit was goin' down (Down)

Tried to look up to somethin' that never was around ('Round)

That faith’ll get you killed while you out on this side of town (This side of

town)

I’m tryna smile with my momma but I can’t even smile (Can't even smile)

'Cause we ain’t really eye to eye when we are on this topic (Topic)

I got depressed, the preacher told me prayer is my option (My only fuckin'

option)

But you could spend your life resided in the Devil’s jaw (Devil's jaw)

Yeah, you could live that life alone while I’m at home wit' God

Stealin' shit, caught wit' my partners

Parkin' lot poppin' off condoms

Papa upset wit' my conscious

Thought he taught me what I meant to go and be a man

He said, «You livin' in the states, you got the upper hand

See, back at home we ain’t have it

The disadvantages absent

To get, you have to be passionate

Get that job, get that master’s

Go get your shit right

And I ain’t finished

My family fucked me up when I was young and on my mission

Young and naive, I guess, but blessed 'cause I can make it out

Deep in the streets, my feet was wet while I was in the drought

Ran up that paper wit' yo' momma and we had you

That shit did change my life, I did all that I had to do

And that’s the truth, nigga»

Tried to look up to the lord when shit was goin' down (Down)

Tried to look up to somethin' that never was around (Never was aound)

That faith’ll get you killed while you out on this side of town (On this side

of town)

I’m tryna smile with my momma but I can’t even smile (Can't even fucking smile)

'Cause we ain’t really eye to eye when we are on this topic (Topic)

I got depressed, the preacher told me prayer is my option (My only fuckin'

option)

But you could spend your life resided in the Devil’s jaw (Devil's jaw)

Yeah, you could live that life alone while I’m at home wit' God