[00:08.75]Life ain't always easy, there's no comfort with growth
[00:12.36]Learn your subconscious, just stay conscious,
[00:14.57]There's a good and bad road
[00:16.55]You need to slow down, baby
[00:18.70]Don't let 'em manipulate your smile
[00:21.04]You need to slow down, baby
[00:23.01]You need to slow down, down, down
[00:25.67]Askin' myself, "What kind of life is this?"
[00:27.98]Gotta be reminded when you might forget
[00:30.16]Wasn't raised like this but she like the **** (Like the ****)
[00:32.49]Killin' me softly
[00:33.69]How do I live when I know you got a family?
[00:35.81]We ain't spoke in days (Spoke in days)
[00:37.10]Breakin' my heart that the choice was made (Choice was made)
[00:39.24]Get your way when your voice is praised (Voice is praised)
[00:41.58]I'm contemplatin' goin' out in a blaze
[00:43.28]Yo, how you go through life without a call from me?
[00:45.41]Every day I'm learnin' in life that talk is cheap
[00:47.54]I guess it's too many movin' parts to see (Parts to see)
[00:49.82]And I don't know it all but you look lost to me (Lost to me)
[00:52.08]And you might feel stuck with the film attached
[00:54.14]It's never too late for a different path
[00:56.31]You got a whole family to convince you that
[00:58.46]I love you and I miss you bad, just hear me out, love
[01:01.17]Life ain't always easy, there's no comfort with growth
[01:04.57]Learn your subconscious, just stay conscious,
[01:06.92]There's a good and bad road
[01:08.72]You need to slow down, baby
[01:10.75]Don't let 'em manipulate your smile
[01:13.32]You need to slow down, baby
[01:15.24]You need to slow down, down, down
[01:17.90]Yo, everybody's lookin' for somebody to blame
[01:20.26]We all livin' life but is the challenge the same?
[01:22.50]Got everything to gain until the salary change
[01:24.71]You can see the obvious
[01:25.72]When the pattern's the same (Pattern's the same)
[01:27.30]Manipulated to forgettin' the facts (Forgettin' the facts)
[01:29.19]What's the price to retrace the tracks?
[01:31.24]Now everybody talkin' 'bout the life you had
[01:33.34]'Cause we ain't see the signs
[01:34.57]Which is twice as bad (Twice as bad)
[01:35.94]Look, you ain't judgin' and it ain't your business
[01:37.84]Didn't know creatin' space would create a vent
[01:39.82]And everything you sayin' to me might be true
[01:42.09]But, real talk, all women gotta break the system (Break the system)
[01:44.76]The way you gettin' treated
[01:45.65]Is disappointin' to see (Disappointin' to see)
[01:46.75]Feelin' like I got a gun pointed at me (Pointed at me)
[01:48.72]You know when you got somethin' that only you can see?
[01:50.87]I can't wait 'til we all get free, just hear me out, love
[01:53.43]Life ain't always easy, there's no comfort with growth
[01:56.88]Learn your subconscious, just stay conscious,
[01:59.27]There's a good and bad road
[02:01.18]You need to slow down, baby
[02:03.33]Don't let 'em manipulate your smile
[02:05.74]You need to slow down, baby
[02:07.65]You need to slow down, down, down
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