Mr. Nobody (Prod. by Statik Selektah)-Reks

[00:01.54]Nobody, nobody [00:05.95]Me against the world, trust it's no party [00:11.56]'Cause all that glitters ain't gold [00:12.71]So I've been told [00:13.95]Been down them lonely roads where the nights get cold [00:16.16]As a kid we used to say [00:18.17]"Oh the places we'll go [00:19.54]Oh the places we'll go [00:20.92]We'll go so many places" [00:22.11] [00:22.45][Hook: Sample of Hope's "The Rain Don't Last" (+Reks)] [00:23.15]Could it be the world's grown colder? (So cold) [00:25.16]Maybe I'm a losing soul (Well maybe I can't win) [00:27.79]The more I try, it just gets harder (So hard) [00:30.00]And my pain is getting old [00:32.68]Somebody said that nothing lasts forever [00:35.82]Just the storm so I've been told [00:38.54]But it seems that when it rains, it pours [00:43.27]And you know (I try) [00:43.65] [00:43.93][Verse 1] [00:45.50]What becomes of a born loser? [00:47.49]I used to believe I was conceived to be king [00:51.01]Mommy was a drug user [00:53.19]Daddy died young, as a son I have seen [00:56.29]Many nights where he abused her [00:58.90]He was just a teen, and she was just a teen [01:01.39]When I was brought into their life hula [01:04.37]Hoop of deceit and lies [01:05.98]My poor bleeding eyes [01:07.58]Used to watch Nikki on the scooter [01:09.78]A daughter with no father may never realize [01:12.88]A man's touch, a man's trust, scrutinized [01:15.74]You either treat her like your queen or your *****, [01:17.97]right? [01:18.45]I had a lite-brite [01:19.98]It used to light up my life until the bills weren't [01:22.45]paid, and day became night [01:23.49]'Zay became like my big brother [01:26.32]He would hand me down 'nough hand-me-downs, get me [01:28.18]through a few summers [01:29.21] [01:29.46][Hook] [01:29.69] [01:29.96][Verse 2] [01:52.48]Daddy didn't preach good loving [01:54.65]Just about the time Momma had me in the oven [01:57.20]I was something in the making [01:59.17]Praising Momma raised a boy through the dramas of a [02:01.64]Papa's leaving [02:03.35]I'm a believer in Karma [02:05.19]So when Daddy died of AIDS, complicated days of a [02:08.63]youngin' [02:09.41]Coming of age, I'm in a daze [02:11.07]Let me cut straight through the chase [02:13.90]I lived it, no twistin' it [02:15.35]Christmas was gifts from the gov'ment [02:17.54]Watching my Momma plummet [02:19.05]Baby boo in her stomach, womb [02:20.80]By the stove in the winters [02:22.30]Heart cold in the summers, summers [02:24.10]Couldn't fight the belly rumbles [02:26.26]Humble beginnings were mine [02:28.24]Family lying, uncle dying [02:30.95]Time and time again head to that Welfare line [02:34.26]A ladder to climb through hard times [02:34.97] [02:35.95][Hook] [02:36.92] [02:37.33][Verse 3] [02:59.36]Momma got the lupus in her bones [03:01.61]Roof is caving in like the upper support's gone [03:04.44]Move to the South, still Massachusetts home [03:07.02]So through the sunshine, the heart is a cold zone [03:10.03]Harder to pen storms through wind storms [03:12.14]When Com. Sense said Borrow a Dollar, economy was [03:15.21]strong [03:16.30]Now we try to borrow tomorrow to get from [03:18.05]Yesterday's somber with limited income [03:21.29]Outcome: We out of luck and some [03:23.84]Hence I'm living from buck-to-buck [03:25.96]**** what Clinton, Bush, and Obama do [03:28.06]Politicians got us in the hole I just can't fit my [03:32.26]Momma through [03:32.72]It's possible to do impossible, but by pursuit of [03:34.85]proper route [03:35.74]Obstacles, keep writing and **** and shoot [03:37.94]Screaming "who got the loot" like Notorious B.I., [03:40.76]Chose another brother now I'm victorious, see why?