Sojourner

Rapsody 、J.Cole -Sojourner

Written by ：9th Wonder 、J.Cole 、Rapsody

Produced by ：9th Wonder

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Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Mhmm mhmm mhmm

Oh I swam for miles only to realize the current

Is fightin'against me and I'm so tired I'm floatin'now

Oh from here on out I've got to realize the power

Of learnin'to let go and just let God

Enjoy the ride

Yeah look

Born into pain alcoholic veins

Over analytical brain a product of the shame

And runnin'from a past that's checkered like the game

Somewhere 'long the way somebody snatched my peace and main

Maybe that's the reason I spent decades seekin'fame

And fortune hopin'that a proper portion would contain

The sadness in my eyes remember when I came

In this music business all their questions was insane

Why you never smile in your pictures I refrain

From giving you the answer 'cause that answer wasn't plain

Enough for me to see 'cause at the time

I knew my name

But didn't know myself and so I dealt with s**t the same

As a fugitive but running from the truth and s**t

I shoot the s**t with n**gas

But they never knew the s**t that's hidden deep

Within the crevices like ever since I was a child

Seen my mama with the pistol pointed at her dome and how

In the f**k do you expect for me to

Ever be the best lil'me

That I can be when trauma's deep inside of me

Like IV fluid pumpin'through the blood of wifey

While she's giving birth

To my child I know my thoughts are runnin'wild

Bear with my style this just a trial run

Just heard these kids don't know 'bout Malcolm

And I'm sort of heartbroken

'Cause the elders lost hope in our youth

And here I sit dead in the middle

Not a little boy no more

But not quite old yet wakin'up in cold sweats

Scared that I'm too disconnected from the kids'perspective

The world ain't got no patience for some s**t that's introspective

So where in the f**k that leave me irrelevant I guess

Went from heaven sent to hella bent intelligent but stressed d**n

Oh I swam for miles only to realize the current

Is fightin'against me and I'm so tired I'm floatin'now

Oh from here on out I've got to realize the power

Of learnin'to let go and just let God

Enjoy the ride

One more time

Swim good enjoy the ride yeah

Every day I rise thank God that I am alive yeah

Yeah swim good enjoy the ride yeah

Every day I rise thank God that I am alive uh

Permanent vacation for forever

Some things you gotta leave behind some people just like weather

And seasons for that reason I know I'll always have a leg up

Weatherman forecast me dead last think I'm just another n**ga

Maybe I'll be the next Black Beatle like Swae Lee

Yeah I know my worth these colonizers got to pay me

Yeah I had to go first 'cause the rest would never last

I had to show the positives for those that couldn't add

Looking at the ads they only love us if our a**

Out and so I'm out I got an audi and it's bad

I said that line 'cause n**gas only respect you if you brag

It don't work on me the same don't give a f**k 'bout what you have

Everybody claimin'boss none of you n**gas got no staff

It don't measure up the same what's a quarter to a half

Of a whole lot of problems n**ga who taught you to add

Where I'm from we don't recognize that it's good math

If you don't teach the ones

That's coming up to multiply their cash

Think for themselves think beyond sales

Everything with worth don't come with some whistles and some bells

The ones I gotta leave behind the ones you gotta bail

Meek mill I'm workin'hard ain't too far from a meek mil'

To keep it real the realest n**gas I know always kept it real

And I'ma tell you black-on-black murder been whack

9th turn me up so they can hear me in the back

Yeah and that's pretty hard for me

But you see hopeful n**gas and where they all ought to be

Scared to grow wings Birdman with a bunch of Carter beef

That's old news look n**ga you talking to modern me

Smarter we had better conversations sittin'with barbers

Puttin'hearts and heads in n**gas who don't think ahead who taught you

Schoolyard schoolyard welcome to the schoolyard

Teach you how to make moves without needin'a U-HAUL

I was on you all when I was growin'up

Now it's you all that's all on these nuts

I'm ballin'havin'a ball and I got the balls to say it

Who needs inspiration where you know when you can play it

Carolina to the heart nobody here gon'play us

The day that we expire Carolina's where they'll lay us

I woke up feelin'like Aaliyah yeah a million and one bucks

Told these n**gas I don't give a single million and one f**k rap

Oh I swam for miles only to realize the current

Is fightin'against me and I'm so tired I'm floatin'now

Oh from here on out I've got to realize the power

Of learnin'to let go and just let God

Enjoy the ride