Treadmill

The subscriber you have called is not in right now Please leave your message after the beep Hey its me, still at work, sorry I can't be there to put the kids to bed Hopefully piano went well for Josie and tell Carson I'll do the fire with him tomorrow night sorry talk to you soon Get money get money Hey Yo he's Tired and sleepy, yet wired and needy He's Working 12 hour days the content is seedy But you know what you got to do as king of the throne Yeah you Make that money but you just want to go home See ya kids, see ya wife, see ya TV and ya life That you built but you don't even have the time to like As a kid, you always dreamed of obtaining mad materials All you had was hand me downs and empty box a cereal Worked hard, gotta job, now your life done changed Done forgot about that past yo from which you came Selling lemonade for nickels now its keep the change You Pay more for brand names yo but that ish the same Wake up son, its the American dream Its that credit card life, yeah and cool as it may seem The Purchasing power that you done dreamed since a teen Now you Tied to a machine and you going never be let free Your on a treadmill chasing a dream Your on a treadmill chasing a dream Your on a treadmill chasing a dream Your on a treadmill chasing a dream As a kid you dreamed of a house, with an extra room Yeah you did that ish, you bought it and paid extra too Got the newest central ac unit just to stay cool As a kid you had nothing but a broke fan an a stool Yeah You put your kids in a way different situation Now they get they wants, what they need is Nathan You the provider the supplier the rock the fire, the man their can be no higher And you the Product of a deadbeat dad, the ish is ironic And yo His absence left a fire, and it burned it was toxic Stopped the fighting, started studying put the fire to work You Got your damn law degree, hey yo its berserk You Wanted more for your kids, and you damn sure did Now their friends getting jealous of the home they live Yeah dad is a hero, dad achieved his dream But the stick stuck in drive, no time to enjoy the scene You on a treadmill chasing a dream You on a treadmill chasing a dream You on a treadmill chasing a dream You on a treadmill chasing a dream Hey yo That dream that you chasing, wants more keeps changing Now you gotta go five star on vacation Now you needing this, and now you needing that Now its time to chill take a second and think back As a kid you was impoverished, but you had a blast Betting on the races between the roaches and the rats Now you getting paid yo, no time to relax You provide for your kids, got the good life intact And you Building memories, every day that there growing But your busy at work you'll see the pictures you get home an Sometimes you wonder is it worth it at all Yeah you like nice things but your time is much more Limited cause, money comes and goes But When your times up yo hey I do suppose About as final as you can get, in this infinite world As you Chasing the dream you gotta let the fire burn We on a treadmill chasing a dream You on a treadmill chasing a dream You on a treadmill chasing a dream