The Hard Way

Microphone check, oh no It's a microphone check, oh yeah Woah Yeah The women, the winning, the rhythms, the riddance are good Haven is filled with amenities, no connections I'm not feeling the love Nor sending I don't wanna fix, nor salvage friendships I don't wanna chick, nor chat, nor end it Since then, man grew, wings re-centred Energy I gave, day-ones Re-Lentless, yeah Triple A's, in a daze, in a maze Chasing the greatness, hot on her heels I don't go under the rest, I'm copping a feel Fuel to the fire, I'm logging the deals I touch on the pinky, the promise is sealed Caressing the booty, the only time boy knows how bottom here feels Don't @ me Fresh toe-tags, man I'm on tactics Can't hurt a hare on my head, I'm lapsing Multiple metres My back has a battery Me and Trey on a beat, that's battery ahh yeah I'm wired way different since all of the fuckery Hindsight is 20 and 20, I cannot forgive They did what they did, but it is what it is Oh, when I'm feeling a way Can't fake the funk Struggle, I cannot just put that shit there to the back of my mind A piece of me breaks whenever I'm cracking a smile I don't forget, I don't forgive Them man move shady whenever the back was turned Safe to say that I learned my lesson The hard way Enemies posed compadres We all touched soles on the road Now them bwoi-dem, they just part ways ahh I poke out my chest, I feel no regrets It's all for the best, I'd do it again My shoulder is cold, I did it the hard way Woahhh I'm back again, I'm confessing the hurt Don't come with warnings, don't preface the verse Reflecting on history is pecking my nerves Done me the dirtiest, I mark the cards And the ink is just permanent Not going back for the baggage, the illness is terminal Headache, but thankful for all of the lessons I learned (Hey, I'm so thankful for that bullshit you niggas did) Me and my bredrins could take it in turns All of my friends then desert I put them dead in the dirt and the blessings emerge I don't forgive, not forgetting the burns My head is the weapon, I'm 10 steps ahead of them I don't want convos and I don't want settlements They were my G's, now the letters are blurred (Feel like I'm at the opticians) Oh, it's so blurry All of my fingernails dirty I put the work in Battle scars, I did way more than just scratch on the surface I'm trapped in the mud I cannot bottle it, I might erupt Unpolished truth with a layer of dust I hold my head up, I don't hold a grudge Regardless of all the above When I'm feeling a way Can't fake the funk, struggle I cannot just Put that shit there to the back of my mind A piece of me breaks whenever I'm cracking a smile I don't forget, I don't forgive Them man moved shady whenever the back was turned Safe to say that I learned my lesson The hard way Enemies posed compadres We all touch soles on the road Now the bwoi-dem they just part ways ahh I poke out my chest, I feel no regrets It's all for the best, I'd do it again My shoulder is cold, I did it the hard way