IF I WAKE UP

[Intro]

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[Verse 1]

Honor matters when no one's looking, and can you look in the mirror?

Can't be biased when you're critiquing just 'cause someone's familiar

Poverty is a shortness of breath for Benjamin's dead inhaler

You got money to spread around here, things are only get realer

Minute you brush niggas away, they start painting the wicked picture

You think soberin' will make me feel better, I'm gettin' sicker

Nigga, money and flicks don't mix like different liquor

Blicker, don't lеt me die, last words of a victim's whisper

I wasn't always a winnеr, who knocked me down would've lost

Got addicted to lavish living, got me back on my course

Just be original, can you picture a copycat with the torch?

God in the physical, hard-hittin' Rocky pack to endorse

Deadliest right of hand, filthy in my survival plan

In the event I die, bring a nigga back with a hologram

The drama land, I'm in limited edition monogram

Don't nothin' 'cause separation more than a comma can

[Chorus]

When I woke up today, I won, I should have been dead

Look at what I've become, I see them skin shed

Snakes'll be where you from, best to be with your gun

Struggle and sacrifices just to be number one

If I see tomorrow, I'm blessed

Niggas that ain't here wishing they could distress

Sometimes that in fear, living peaceful's a stretch

Money, violence and sex

Ain't no honor in thieves, they gon' chew on you next

[Verse 2]

They'll never appreciate the door until they know that it's shut

Keeping my distance from it, even when the world opens up

The less fortunate is another individual's luck

Snitches get stitches, nigga, the son of a ritual cut

Respect nothing more than what's honest

Now would you tell me the truth?

You wanna change history, don't you? They get buried in proof

Lift out the noose and stand up, nigga, in the face of whoever

Got two pair of eyes lookin' at me, gotta raise 'em up better

Buying anything I wrote off, you got to pay me forever

Ain't no coming back from your shady endeavors

Can't spend a day being jealous

Hanging up all this war jewelry, hard to remove the victor

None of his scripted perspective coming from newer scripture

I moved the Richard with new elixir, the tool'll fix you

Two crucifixes, why follow? Don't think the shoes'll fit you

You lose a nigga, good pics'll make the illusion bigger

In the blink of a eye, there's heat on you, no room to shiver

[Chorus]

When I woke up today, I won, I should have been dead

Look at what I've become, I see them skin shed

Snakes'll be where you from, best to be with your gun

Struggle and sacrifices just to be number one

I see tomorrow, I'm blessed

Niggas that ain't here wishing they could distress

Sometimes that in fear, living peaceful's a stretch

Money, violence and sex

Ain't no honor in thieves, they gon' chew on you next

[Verse 3]

I know I've made mistakes 'cause shit ain't go according to plan

Maybe I was right all along and it was all in God's hands

Classic composing's therapeutic, thank the Lord for my fans

Knew I would make it the same day niggas told me I can't

Get you a spot to see me climb, marking my name's in the tower

All praise to the throne above me, He who gave me the power

Cut communication off lately, I need all of my hours

I'm living wrong, hoped that the conscious shakes the wrong reasons out us

By the time they give you your flowers, they'll be dead with no color

Got no problem meeting my fate long as it's not by my brother

Know when I'm driving any day, I could get stopped for my color

You'll never understand the drama if you're not from the gutter

I was told it's 187s when a cop undercover

People will lose their whole identity for a popular summer

Sometimes everybody don't make it and I'm not going to wonder

I knew niggas selling their soul every day, look what it's come to

[Chorus]

When I woke up today, I won, I should have been dead

Look at what I've become, I see them skin shed

Snakes'll be where you from, best to be with your gun

Struggle and sacrifices just to be number one

I see tomorrow, I'm blessed

Niggas that ain't here wishing they could distress

Sometimes that in fear, living peaceful's a stretch

Money, violence and sex

Ain't no honor in thieves, they gon' chew on you next