For a Reason

[Intro: Joe Budden]

Y-y, uh

Y-y-y-y-y-yo-yo

Uh, yo-yo-yo

[Chorus: [?], Joe Budden, [?]]

Looking back on the things I've done

Everything happens for a reason (Yo)

Life is something you learn from (Yo, yo)

Everything happens for a reason (Yo, yo, yo)

I gotta make a confession, there's nothin' I'm regrettin'

Life's a valuable lesson to have to pull out a weapon

So don't make me, life is something you learn from

Everything happens for a reason (Look, look)

[Verse 1: Joe Budden]

It's Joey B, you know me, B

It's the nigga that would try and get the blow on GP

It's the nigga in the hood on the low G3 (Yeah)

It's the nigga some niggas want so does he please

Is it 'cause he make the flow look so easy (Or)

Or do they sit and count up all the dough that he see (Or)

Or do they wanna prove they OG and use me

To get the guns out, sending him to ODB

But what I ever did to a nigga? Aside give to a nigga

Try to show the big pic' to a nigga (Listen here now)

But I can't conclude how some niggas conclude

That the world is too small for them to live with a nigga

I don't regret dude tryin' me (Nah), dude keepin' that eye on me (Nah)

Then they gotta live with this thing called irony

And if I gotta live with the idea remindin' me

Then they can't live when the iron's on me, yeah! (Come on)

[Chorus: [?], Joe Budden, [?]]

Looking back on the things I've done

Everything happens for a reason

Life is something you learn from

Everything happens for a reason

I gotta make a confession, there's nothin' I'm regrettin'

Life's a valuable lesson to have to pull out a weapon

So don't make me, life is something you learn from (Woah)

Everything happens for a reason (Woah, woah, woah)

[Verse 2: Joe Budden]

[?] things just ain't the same for gangstas

And so I bear my soul, my pain, my anger

I beg to the Lord, keep me far from mo' danger

Look I know 'em but can't see 'em, he's a popular stranger

If I never got stabbed, wouldn't remember Veronica's wrath

Standing in the shower looking at the scab

I wouldn't know the hints of a stick-up kid

If I ain't have that short stint as a stick-up kid

If dude never tried to kill me, I might'a went numb

To all the bullshit that goes on where I'm from

And if I never went to jail, wouldn't needed a bail

Would'a probly went on to graduate from Yale

Would'a been a prosecutor standing in the court of law

But then that goes against everything he stands for

And if I never met Glo, how would I really know

All the shit that comes with, when you dealing with a ho

See it is what it is to be

Or it is what it is, at least that's what it is to me

And so if I could ever go back in history

I wouldn't change shit, I'd leave it all just to be

And if my first album would'a did five when it dropped

I'd be chillin', instead of tryna' rise to the top

If I could reverse the roles, would I reverse the roles?

Would it be worth it to try to reverse the tolls?

[Chorus: [?], Joe Budden, [?]]

Looking back on the things I've done

Everything happens for a reason

Life is something you learn from

Everything happens for a reason

I gotta make a confession, there's nothin' I'm regrettin'

Life's a valuable lesson to have to pull out a weapon

So don't make me, life is something you learn from (Woah)

Everything happens for a reason (Woah, woah, woah)

[Verse 3: Joe Budden]

I got a brother always keeps it real, his name's Guilt

Let's me know I can't stand however it is I feel

I got a cousin named Pride, nigga acts like a lawyer

Gotta a sister named Karma, I be tryna' avoid 'er

Gotta ex that's bitter, wants me to be her nigga

Hates my girl, Self-Pity, 'cause I'm always with her

But Bitter's beef is valid, she don't like shorty 'cause she use me

One time she seen 'er verbally abuse me

Got a friend that's passive, friends call him Passive

He just says whatever hoping that shit passes

My Uncle Hindsight wears real thick glasses

Reminds me of where I been and how shit gets drastic

Got a Aunt named Humility, she speaks low mumbles

Don't care that I'm a rapper she keeps me so humble

In my head I'll debate it, out loud I'll never say it

I'm pretty sure it's a good reason we all related

[Chorus (Extended): [?], Joe Budden, [?]]

Everything happens for a reason

I gotta make a confession there's nothin' I'm regretting

Life's a valuable lesson to have to pull out a weapon

So don't make me

Life is something you learn from

Everything happens for a reason

Looking back on the things I've done

Everything happens for a reason

Life is something you learn from

Everything happens for a reason

Life is something you learn from

Everything happens for a reason