The Ways

[Intro: Big Sean]

Doin' what I gotta do, doin’ what I gotta do

This life is not for you

Uhh, woah woah woah woah

[Chorus: Big Sean & Jhené Aiko]

That's just the ways, yeah

I swear that's just the ways

I can’t change how I was raised

You know that's just the ways

That's just the ways, that's just the ways

That's just the ways, yeah yeah

[Verse 1: Big Sean]

I overthink too much, that's just how I was raised

I'm dealin' with choices that no one around me ever had to make

The result of going down the road less paved without ways

That’s just the ways, that’s just the ways

That's just the ways, yeah yeah

Dad cheated on Mom, that’s how I was raised

So how do you expect me to have different ways?

Broken marriages somehow get inherited

I'm embarrassed to say, but that's just the ways, that's just the ways, yeah

So how do you expect me to be financial

And manage the money that everyone ’round me can't handle?

How do you expect me to be a leader

If I never seen one?

[Chorus: Big Sean & Jhené Aiko]

Cause that's just the ways, yeah yeah

That's just the ways, that's just the ways

That's just the ways

I can't change how I was raised

Blowing weed, yellin' "Fuck the police" every other day

Seen fiends to crack every day, that's just the ways

That's just the ways, yeah yeah

Cause that's just the ways

That's just the ways, that's just the ways

That's just the ways

[Verse 2: Big Sean]

At least I thought so until I got it from a different angle

Back when the closest thing to Arizona was the much mucho mangos

I was drained, though

Going through life no strings attached, still gettin' tangled

Before I knew I was the one that realized the strings was handled by angles

Thinkin' I don't wanna have a kid in this world and it might go to waste

Having a son with a gun on his waist

Falling victim to the system that we can't escape

Stuck in the city like a never ending maze

Treating problems like they ain't problems and they a phase

[?] raise cause he can't take advice I never gave, yeah yeah

Cause if Dad treated Mom with a little respect, yeah

Then he gon' grow up and find the right girl to protect

Cause family businesses ands good marriages somehow get inherited

When life give you that message, it's up to you to translate, yeah yeah

[Chorus: Big Sean & Jhené Aiko]

Cause that's just the ways, that's just the ways

That's just the ways

I realize I can't change how I was raised

And give somebody something they never gave

Cause that's just the ways, that's just the ways

That's just the ways, yeah

That's just the ways

I ain't gotta be stuck in my ways

That's just the ways, yeah yeah

That's just the ways, that's just the ways

That's just the ways

[Outro: Big Sean & Jhené Aiko]

Way, way

It's like this for you

Way, way

That's just the ways, that's just the ways

That's just the ways, yeah, yeah (ways)

Oh ah

Oh ah

That's just the ways, that's just the ways

That's just the ways, yeah, yeah