[Intro]
Ay
Southside...
Baby....
Ay....

[Verse]
Walking outside, watching the trees sway
Thinkin' deep in my mind back to elementary days

Even middle school
When I was that one known to bring more laughter
But it seemed to me that people just wanted to bring a challenge

Whether it was through banter, whether it was through physical means
Or mental means, spitting a joke tryna be, demeaning me

And my intelligence, I ain't gone lie
There was times when I was just letting it down, dumbin' it down

Know what I'm saying
Just to fit in just to be cool
But still within it pimpin' I was still he who be deemed true

If you did something wrong to me or to another
I was that one known to let you know on the real still statin' that I love you

Never the kind to try and hate condemn ya or hurt ya
Or do you dirty
Having you feeling on earth that you having no purpose

Cause you do, and so do I
And I was that one always known to be by your side

And when you felt like that nobody loved you, nobody cared
Who could you always call on, who was always there

Nobody but me, that dude named 2Ru3, who kept it straight true
And spit nothing, but truth to you

But for whatever reason, you felt it necessary
To be
Treating me in a way as if you really wanted to be carry

-ing me in my casket in a spiritual fashion
Having me feeling as if in life love and peace I had to be lacking

Ain't I gone lie there was a time deep in my mind
I felt as if every corner I turned somebody was trying

To be pointing me up in the scope letting loose bullets
I don't mean physically, but spiritually truly

And I ain't gone lie also in my physical mind I felt that
Sometimes my heart was so cold no love could melt that

I was sometimes always contemplating
Why did it seem always I was just gaining more hatred

No matter how many times I was just trying to gain love
In the ways of what I was always known to be, what, straight love

Showing nothing but peace, showing nothing but honesty
And integrity and dignity and still for some reason I be

He who be suffering, he who be struggling
Trying to find the epitome of what it be known to be having that one that you can be trusting and loving and confiding in ya

Ain't gotta worry
Bout them trying to be doing ya dirty

On the low when you home alone you on your job pimpin'
Counting guap pimpin'
Not having to worry about whether or not really

She be creeping on the low with another
Having to wonder what she mean by certain stuff bruh

She say out of her mind when she be smiling and laughing
And you thinking in your mind, is she serious or playing acutally

I don't understand, I don't really know, but I know this
Even before we came into this relationship for sure it

Was nothing but a friendship that we had
And everything that you was going through
All the troubles and issues

And all the different men you went through
All the different instances that you did get into

Who was that n***a that was known to keep it real with ya
Confide ya, help ya, try to help ya
Simply what
Help yaself girl

But hey, you know how it go
You don't know what you got until it's gone

[Outro]
You don't know what you got 'til it's gone...

You don't know what you got 'til it's gone...ay...