Stuck In The Moment

[Intro - Joe Budden - talking] (*echo*)

How's everybody feeling out there?

Y'all good?

I wanna thank everybody for coming out

Sharing this moment with a nigga

It means more to me than it can to anybody else

Trust me (talk to 'em)

[Verse 1 - Joe Budden]

Check it, When the night falls and the smoke clears

Millions of miles away, yet they so near (uh)

I remember memories, so I'm never lead astray

When tomorrow comes I know it's only due to yesterday

Without a boundary (uh), check my latitude

New attitude, see I'm grateful for having gratitude

I'm not complacent (but), but got no regrets

Few hating niggas wanna see me regress

Deep breath, life is too short for me to be stressed

Interpret ice grilling as their way of saying he's blessed

You wanna hate, I got my own show, be my guest

Remember doctors used to tell me I was depressed

At the time was dating a model with double D chest

I thought, 'til she laughed that shit off and said these's F's

Before I bought my first gun, was already armed

Teach you about couth, little bit of class, heavy charm

Used to give my last, for a nice chain, heavy charm

High school dropout but went to every prom (talk to 'em)

Now everyone I went to high school with

Now they thirty years plus still on some high school shit (talk to 'em)

Seems like all the fly niggas and bitches that was well off (now they)

Is junk head high niggas, all the bitches fell off

From surgery, rapping for niggas that never heard of me (uh)

Burglaries, dapping up niggas that want to murder me (uh)

If you close minded, I call that an emergency

Blind fold yourself as if there's nothing more to further see (ta ha)

Honestly that's absurd to me

If the sky is the limit, then where's the urgency? (me?)

I embrace life (ta ha), I'm so carefree

But I won't judge y'all, if you don't care to be (uh)

Just know no matter who you are (what?)

The right system (it'll), turn a role player to a superstar (oh!)

I'm talking rock bottom, a whole 'nother tier

Stuck in the moment made me move through a whole 'nother year

How'd I become straight forward?

No baggage, y'all can run from the past, I'm a make my way towards it

Like (ta ha), nigga I remember stage fright

Back when I ain't know if I could rock the stage right

Who knew I'd end up being the nicest?

My point, hard to come up short when shit is priceless (ta ha, uh)

Hard to come up short when shit is priceless (oh!)

[Hook � Emanny] - w/ Joe Budden ad libs

I can't explain it, I just gotta embrace it

That something got me feeling this way, yeah

Instead of running, I'm waiting here for it

Cause nothing ever been this great

I'm stuck in the moment

Stuck in the moment, the moment

Stuck in the moment, the moment

I'm stuck in the moment

Stuck in the moment, the moment

Stuck in the moment, the moment

I'm stuck in the moment

[Verse 2 - Joe Budden]

I say this with all certainty, people wanting the worst for me

Got to wait in a long line, it's not a first for me

Most of my defects have been put in my past

If you only see what I have, then you overlooking my path

If you knew about my hardships and the bloodshed

It'll speak for itself (trust me) and that's enough said

I carry heavy weight, who wanna try and bear it?

Hope to lessen it daily, if you wonder why I share it

Being stuck in that moment never appealed to me

You ain't live my life, so you can't imagine how real it be

I'm talking about the long haul

Put me on a high pedestal (then you), better be prepared to watch a long fall

(So) So the trampoline I adore

Got so much to say to the people I ignore

Dog, some moments you rather forget because they scare you

I lock onto them shits like a pit, they just prepare you

Photographic memory of deja-vu

The way I do, whatever I say I do

Nigga built Ford Tough, show facades what talent is (you could)

Get a different V, you ain't got to Dodge Challenges (oh!)

Emotional Roller-coaster, Vivian Green

Every event led to living a dream (or), or do I live in a dream?

Where there's no such thing as a crisis

My point, can't come up short when shit is priceless (oh!)

[Hook]

[Break - Emanny]

I've been through the struggle, been through the hustle

But never did it bring me down

I don't know where I'm going

But all I know is, I'm stuck in the moment

Maybe I've been, here before

But I don't see no need to change it

Don't know what life has in store

But I'm prepared to embrace it

[Hook] - w/ ad libs