[Chorus: Lori Perry]
Day after day, seems like I push against the clouds
They just keep blocking out the sun
It seems since I was born
I've wakened every blessed morning
Down on my luck and up against the wind

[Verse: Drake]
Gotta hold my head high with two dry eyes
I told you everything is fine, dawg, but I lied
I be tryna draw the line, but it's a fine line
And I'm drownin' out the noise from the sideline
But it's louder than the voice I got in my mind
I can't even hear myself when I get quiet time
How they tellin' me I'm done, when I'm in my prime?
They've been tryna push a narrative since '09
And they even had my ass convinced a couple times
But that ain't even the half, I had tougher times
Only look for sympathy inside my mother's eyes
And it's still, "Fuck them n***as on the other side"
We got problems we could never really put aside
I cracked the door for us all, put my foot inside
I tried to kill them boys with kindness, but they wouldn't die
So now I kill 'em all for acting like they couldn't die
And I do it all for this little hood of mine
And now I'm top opp to these n***as, what a time
Raise 'em like a son, and still they said he couldn't shine
Fuck it, I'm the one, I ain't worried 'bout the other nine
Checking on my brothers help, making sure my brother fine
Making sure my mother's fine
Pass it to my son next, make him throw another dime
Tryna find the right one, give her ass some butterflies
Eleven years deep now, getting hard to summarize
N***as tryna diss me, gotta tell a bunch of lies
Shit don't even cut deep, cutting like some butter knives
Man, I got a hundred lives
Pushing through the pain, that's why I look like I ain't troubled by
More I start piecing shit together, more I'm puzzled by
Fame'll have you feelin' like you're really living double lives
But I know myself, and that ain't the shit they publicize
[Chorus: Lori Perry]
Day after day, seems like I push against the clouds
They just keep blocking out the sun
It seems since I was born
I've wakened every blessed morning
Down on my luck and up against the wind

[Open Verse]

[Chorus: Lori Perry]
Day after day, seems like I push against the clouds
They just keep blocking out the sun
It seems since I was born
I've wakened every blessed morning
Down on my luck and up against the wind
Don't you stop, don't you run, don't you cry