The Glass Egg

[Intro: Wale]

And they say don't ever change (change on me)

Although beautiful matrimony is a rapper balancing your women, your riches and at least half your homies

You're at the top, don't crack!

[Chorus: Wale]

I've been doing my own thing

And they said don't never change

And I pray I stay the same

Want everything for everybody 'round me

I've been doing my own thing

And we said we'd never change

And I pray we stay the same

Fame changin' everybody 'round me

[Verse 1: Wale]

OK, good business with mad friends

(and we said we'd never change)

Or bad business with mad friends, aha, glass egg

Used to be my homie, me and you was chillin' though

Now that shit got cold like the OG with that finger roll

That Spur, probably cop it, 'cause the more I drink Wallace

And it's worse when they even in their fillings of your pockets

Then I got my deal

Started wondering if them hittas with me are for real

Mmm, I figure them'll do it, not us

Mmm, the bond was thick, now just the plot is

And isn't it ironic, getting a name can make you anonymous

My newest of hobbies, collecting calls from the lock-ups

Tell em I know he's so sick of the walls, when he get home, he going shopping

Mmm, look at the time that caught us

Talked to the times while younger and maybe getting your life in order

Real hitta for life, better not look at the price

Better not look at that register, everything in here's light

Mmm, 'cause I'm Jah doin' a'ight

Look at how the moral of the story, but don't see its advice

It's right, it's like life is like a glass egg

Tryna maintain what come with the fame and keeping your last friends

Yeah, you know that balance a bitch

'Cause who on your back or who got your back

I promise the line is this thin, really, really

You know that balance a bitch

'Cause who on your back or who got your back

I promise the line is this thin

[Interlude: Jerry Seinfeld]

I got this glass egg somehow on the top of this, balanced

On the top of this mountain, you know?

I don't know how i got it there exactly

But I see it's there and I got to end this with the right feeling

[Chorus: Wale]

I've been doing my own thing

And they said don't never change

And I pray I stay the same

Want everything for everybody 'round me

I've been doing my own thing

And we said we'd never change

And I pray we stay the same

Fame changin' everybody 'round me

[Verse 2: Wale]

OK, good business with mad friends

(and we said we'd never change)

Or bad business with mad friends, aha, glass egg

Look at the years invested, who would have figured or guessed it (pa?)

Look at you there since Contra kept the code but you’ve got extra men

Told you I would get this straight, told you once i got big

It's lonely at the top by the population looking in, ahh

Then I got my deal

Started wondering if them hittas with me are for real (sometimes the money let the devil in)

Yeah, now salutations to my former friends

Forming to form against me is currently your form of defense

And now it hurts me to say

Sometimes your sandbox friends equipped for dirty exchange

Now was it worth all that bling in a hurt or sustain at curtain calls

One of two that either boo or bouquets, so was it

Worth of your fam or worth all the fame

Exchange your personal relationships for personal gains

I'm telling you, balance is a bitch

'Cause when you're back, who got your back

I promise the line is this thin, really, uh

I'm telling you, balance is a bitch

'Cause who on your back, and who got your back

Sometimes that line don't exist, I'm out

[Chorus: Wale]

I've been doing my own thing

And they said don't never change

And I pray I stay the same

Want everything for everybody 'round me

I've been doing my own thing

And we said we'd never change

And I pray we stay the same

Fame changin' everybody 'round me

I've been doing my own thing

And they said don't never change

And I pray I stay the same

Want everything for everybody 'round me

I've been doing my own thing

And we said we'd never change

And I pray we stay the same

Fame changin' everybody 'round me

[Chorus: Chrisette Michele]

I've been doing my own thing

And they said don't never change

And I pray we stay the same

I've been doing my own thing

And we said we'd never change

And I pray we stay the same

For the ... 'round me