Castle Walls

[Chorus: Christina Aguilera]

Everyone thinks that I have it all

But it's so empty living behind these castle walls

These castle walls

If I should tumble, if I should fall

Would anyone hear me screaming behind these castle walls

There's no-one here at all, behind these castle walls

[Verse 1: T.I.]

Observing the estate through the gate from the outside looking in

Bet you would think I got it made, better look again

I got a butler, got a maid, and a mansion

The belief is that I'm living out a millionaire's fantasy

With Phantoms and Ferraris in the driveway

But you see, it came in exchange of a sane man's sanity

Your vision jaded by the Grammys on the mantelpiece

Just switch your camera lenses, you would see the agony

Apparently, it's damaging the man you see before you on the canvas

He may seem alright but all the disadvantages

His family encounters overshadows his extravagance

Walk in my nines a while, I dare you, it would scare you

While it surely seem like the King's life seem glamorous

As seen through the eyes of untrained amateurs

Because the camera doesn't see beyond the walls of the smiles

Only counts until it falls in the pile

[Chorus: Christina Aguilera]

Everyone thinks that I have it all

But it's so empty living behind these castle walls

These castle walls

If I should tumble, if I should fall

Would anyone hear me screaming behind these castle walls

There's no-one here at all

Behind these castle walls

[Verse 2: T.I.]

Honestly to me, I think I'd lose every benefit

Of all that I've accomplished if my kids never win at shit

Me knowing this, why should the verses I have laid

Be more important to me than the persons I have raised

I guess I'm saying that to say that opportunity

But they just don't equate to all the time they take away

From the kids, all the shit I did right is a mistake

If Deyjah end up a stripper and Major slinging yay

How could I ever consider myself a great

If Messiah ain't paid and Nique Nique ain't straight

Would your favourite song about the whips, money and shit

Be relevant if you found out, Domani wasn't rich

Nope, so me being the GOAT

Shouldn't mean more to me than seeing to it King go

From a badass kid to a man with some dough

Otherwise, I may as well have stayed poor

So while they stay focused on me beefing with Flip or Shawty Lo

Then Gucci or Ludacris or if I'm fucking with a ho

Did I snitch when I got arrested or will I die over nonsense?

Internally, I'm dealing with this conflict

So excuse me if I don't get the chance to kiss the hand

That slap me in the face, ay I'm just a man

If they saying I ain't the best at making hit records

It's 'cause this my life, these ain't just rapping

Betcha ain't think at all it was that deep, did you, dawg?

See, you can't see the castle through the walls till it falls

Bitch ain't think it was that deep, did you, dawg?

'Cause see, you can't see the castle through the walls till it falls

[Chorus: Christina Aguilera]

Everyone thinks that I have it all

But it's so empty living behind these castle walls

These castle walls

If I should tumble, if I should fall

Would anyone hear me screaming behind these castle walls

There's no-one here at all

Behind these castle walls

[Bridge: Christina Aguilera]

Nobody knows I'm all alone

Living in this castle made of stone

They say that money is freedom

But I feel trapped inside it all

And while I sit so high up on a throne

I wonder how I can feel this low

On top of the world, it's beautiful

But there's no place to fall

[Verse 3: T.I.]

For the record, ay, I give a damn if I never said shit again

My career was meant for me to come and tell it

Honest interpretation of how affected I'm faced with

Matters most rappers used to keep locked away in the basement

But the day that I walk away they ain't saying that I'm amazing

Downplaying the way I kept fellas from catching cases

Won't take into consideration how much it mean what I'm saying

And when I say what I mean, even when I'm surrounded by the fakest

From one of the greatest sinners, blessed with most of God's graces

Who made his way amongst the greatest from the grimiest places

So next time you rating royalty

I'm always being given to recordings than the level of your loyalty

Obvious you've been ignoring me

Who else you seen make it through the storm, unharmed disjointed

While all the critics was looking for Prince Charming

Disregarded the king of the south and raised doubt

Even though he made a castle out of what used to be a house

He did shit that all your favorites rappers only rap about

But most of y'all don't see the castle through the walls

And the smiles till it falls into piles so while

[Chorus: Christina Aguilera]

Everyone thinks that I have it all

But it's so empty living behind these castle walls

These castle walls (Yeah, yeah)

If I should tumble, if I should fall (If I should tumble)

Would anyone hear me screaming behind these castle walls

There's no-one here at all

Behind these castle walls