Role Reversal

[Intro]

Joey Talk To Em

Hoping my true motherfucker know this be the realest shit I ever wrote

It's, it's (Check this)

It's that On Top Muzik

[Verse]

I be at the mall, walk up in the store

Glance up at the wall, pick out a few kicks

I need 11′s in these

Matter of fact while you at it bring em’ in a size six

I take shorty’s shoes off

Like here try on these J’s make sure them shits fit

But in my head it gets thick, sayin'

Joey fall back, cause that's not your kid

I don’t know you lil nigga and plus I got a son of my own

But he’s at home and the ways he's being raised I don’t really condone

Naw, cause his pops been gone, fuck it

I'll explain it to him later when he’s grown

Old enough to have a phone

Askin' why mommy hate me

And he got the sneak to call me whenever he’s alone so

You wouldn’t know it but I got a soft spot for you

See, we share them same obstacles

Looking from the outside may seem like you neglect him

But when he slips up and calls me dad, I correct him

I protect him, when baby girl start ventin' about you I say, respect him

And though it seems out of order

My own mistakes have turned me into your biggest supporter

Fast forward, you wouldn’t believe

How I could love like mine what I didn’t conceive

Tryin' to help him reach shit what I never achieved

Am I doin' it for him or is it my own greed cause see

Me and my baby moms, we don’t do the conversations

Son cramped in the back, two-bedroom shack

With seven people livin' there just congregatin'

So when your child with me, I’m over compensatin'

I’m talkin' eight bedrooms, seven baths

My son thinkin' that’s the shit that only heaven has

Mine's gotta keep it cool, yours get to see the view

White marble around the ground, heated pool

Mine's got to go to The Y

Shit, yours just got to walk outside

And the irony of it all, and it's just sad

Is you walked away yet, I’m the step dad

And then you get on Skype, sayin' how you being, whats the word

And I be on the background listenin' like

This motherfucker here got some nerve

He says, bye Daddy, I love you

I be wantin' to snuff you but wouldn’t want him thinkin' less of you

But, he's perceptive and this shit's wild

He picks up on everything and he's just a child

So through all my resistance

I’m afraid this two-year-old can already see the difference

He sees you don’t provide when you’re capable

Why we never fix things while we're still able too

So you’re annoyed, it kinda of hampers me

Get my boy, I always wanted a family

Just to greet when I get through the door

You gon' have to take the L, I can't give you yours

I’ll do all the work, you ain't gotta be bothered

You can be his dad, I'll be his father

I relate though, so I know it hurts

Got to be uncomfortable when the roles reversed

[Outro]

I been in your shoes my whole life, nigga

Try these on

I relate though, so I know it hurts

Got to be uncomfortable when the roles reversed (OH! Talk to em!)

Nahmean? (I been there!)

Shit can't feel good (You wanna see how it feel?)