Under Pressure

Album: Under Pressure (2014)
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  • Work so fucking much my greatest fear is I'mma die alone
    Every diamond in my chain, yeah, that's a milestone
    People calling me, asking me for money, man
    The only thing I'mma give you motherfuckers is the dial tone

    Flashbacks of a youngin' sipping that purple Kool Aid
    Skipping school with my homies and chiefing reefer for two days
    Running from the law, living how I'm living, fuck 'em all
    Bumping Triple Six
    Hennessy in my cup, driving through the sticks
    Who the bitch riding with me?
    Man, the devil tryna get me
    Motivated, under-educated, and hated
    But finally getting cake like a happy belated
    Bitch I made it, we on
    Buy it, break it, roll it, light it, smoke it, inhale it
    Write it, record it, mix it, master it, press it up, unveil it
    Feel like I've been waiting forever, forever to inherit
    This is war, I declare it
    Time is money, I can't spare it
    Futuristic, so simplistic
    Please decipher my linguistics
    Slow it down, Robitussin
    I'm the king, ain't no discussion
    And now we blowing up like spontaneous human combustion
    My consumption is the illest
    Section eight, I know you feel this
    On the come up, where they run up on you for nothing at all
    Brighter than eleven suns, this the first, where my funds?
    EBT, that's the card
    I thank God, I thank God, but it's hard, but it's hard

    Work so fucking much my greatest fear is I'mma die alone
    Every diamond in my chain, yeah, that's a milestone
    People calling me, asking me for money, man
    The only thing I'mma give you motherfuckers is the dial tone

    God damn, god damn, we at it again
    Me and my homies that know me blowing up like the Taliban
    Yeah, my stress up, but I'm blessed up
    Fuck around and get messed up
    When I murder the rhyme, I'm living divine
    You know that I'm one of a kind
    Lemme get it right now, ho
    Draped up and I'm dripped out, right now, ho
    Caked up 'til I cash out and I got 'em all wondering how, so
    On the down low, haters drown slow
    On the down low, haters drown slow
    Oh God, my God, we got it all right
    Oh God, my God, we gotta get it, right?
    These fuckers facades, they just a mirage, right?
    I said these fuckers facades, they just a mirage, right?
    Tell me that they love me, know damn well that they don't give a fuck
    I be on that finger flipping killing shit up in the cut
    That's what's up
    All these bitches out here tryna gas it up
    This is everything I ever wanted, I can't pass it up
    Life changed in a year, couldn't happen fast enough
    "Can I do it like you do it?" That's what they be asking us
    White Benz, black card, bitch better get your plastic up
    Man, this shit is hella hard, but we never acting up
    Live it up, hold on to your dream, don't ever give it up
    Finally had my share of success, and shit, I can't get enough
    Now they know my name through the nation
    Cause my single like that good shit, man, always in rotation
    Now they know Logic for Logic, not through my affiliations
    Stacking profit on profit, from this music I'm making
    Even Jesus had haters, so when you feeling forsaken
    Tell 'em jealous Judas is who this is, and man, that'll break 'em
    And bitch I'm still the same
    Dash of auto tune so y'all can feel the pain
    Broke as fuck, back in that basement, not a dollar to my name
    Chasing fame, chasing glory, 'til the day we make a story
    Positive that life ain't mine, bitch you can take that shit to Maury

    Work so fucking much my greatest fear is I'mma die alone
    Every diamond in my chain, yeah, that's a milestone
    People calling me, asking me for money, man
    The only thing I'mma give you motherfuckers is the dial tone

    (Hello, no one is available to take your call)
    I been working hard, I been searching for God
    I been working hard, I been searching for God
    (Please leave a message after the tone)
    Little brother, this is your sister, you're busy, I get you
    But I insist you call me back cause I miss you
    I wish you well, well, I wish you would call
    Cause lately you feel like I'm just not your sister at all, all
    I'm sorry for calling and balling, I'm all in
    And I feel like I'm falling lately, it feel like my children hate me
    You tell me I'm beautiful and yet no man wanna date me
    Haunted by vivid memories of that man who raped me
    And lately I, I feel more like mommy, I know I'm me, but still
    You always seemed to pick up the phone and somehow I feel
    Better, but you been answering me lesser and lesser
    So I resorted to the pills in my dresser, I'm gone
    As as for [?] he left and he ain't coming back
    I hate the man, if I see him I swear I tell him that
    No longer cooking crack in my kitchen, cutting, selling that
    He broke my heart, that relationship been to hell and back
    I been working hard, I been searching for God
    I can feel the Devil around me as they all applaud
    Promise you won't forget me, that you'll always be with me
    And even when you gone I can call whenever he hit me
    Under pressure, I've been feeling under pressure

    Hey, son, this is your father, don't mean to bother
    How are you? Heard you were in town, but I never saw ya
    Tried to call ya, where are ya?
    In Paris? What a beautiful destination
    In Paris, right by the Eiffel, come now, please don't be spiteful
    Of all my small talk, I think we're overdue a long talk
    When I see kids around the way I say how I'm your dad
    It gets me thinking of incredible moments we've had
    And on the real I'm trying so hard not to bug you
    But do you think you could stop rapping about my drug use?
    I'm two years clean, no longer a fiend
    Yeah, I'm 57, but I feel 19
    And I love you I swear, Bobby, I know you're there
    And when the time is right I know that you gon' take care
    Of anything I need, of your family
    Can I have some tickets to your next show?
    Would you stand with me?
    Can I have some money for my new honey that's hella fine?
    I forgot to mention I got divorced from your step-mom
    My mind going crazy, but I still look hella calm
    Maybe you could tell
    I've been feeling under pressure

    Yeah, dear family, I'm so sorry that I've been distant
    Everything changed in an instant, my time has been inconsistent
    I know that you been insisting, I know that birthday I missed it
    I swore I told my assistant, but I guess my mind is in another place
    Thoughts often in another world, I started seeing another girl
    It fell through, man, what a world
    But I'm so focused on my craft, on employing my staff
    Such a perfectionist, I can't even finish this draft
    This letter to the ones I love, the ones that I miss
    Brothers and sisters that hit me up just to reminisce
    Meanwhile people outside of my blood asking for favors
    I don't owe you a fucking thing, you best switch your behavior
    Truly remarkable how I barely know you, but somehow owe you When you don't even know 'bout the shit I go through
    We ain't spoken in a while, tell me sister, how your child?
    Come now, girl, give me a smile, come on, girl, don't do me foul
    Sorry I ain't call before, but I'm calling you right now
    I heard that you was popping E, stop resorting to the vowel
    How my mama, how she doing, does she know what I'm pursuing?
    I ain't talk to her in years, that relationship she ruined
    But sometimes I wake and wonder just what the fuck I'm doing
    They say family is everything, I swear that shit the truth
    I should spend it all with y'all, but I spend it in the booth
    This is everything I love, this is everything I need
    Never sacrifice this feeling even though my heart it bleed
    This is everything I love, everything I need
    Never sacrifice this feeling even though my heart bleed
    Under pressure, I've been feeling under pressure Writer/s: Trevor Jennings Hall
    Publisher: Wixen Music Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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