I know one day, I won't have to wait in line I know one day, I'ma get those keys to that new ride I know one day I'll be fine And I know one day I'll get mine And I know one day, hell it might be Monday I remember thinking, man, I need a decent ride And I'ma have to ask my mama for the keys to drive With my brother riding in an old Cutlass Black and mild lead, whole busted Well, who knows, maybe one day we'll have a little more We'll finally shop somewhere else besides the corner store My little sister say she gotta have a pair of Dior's But right now, they'll probably stop us before we hit the door My uncle say that's how it is where we come from And if it weren't for bad luck, we wouldn't have none Hard to tell the good days from the bad ones If I could catch a shooting star, then I'd *** one I know one day, I won't have to wait in line I know one day, I'ma get those keys to that new ride I know one day I'll be fine And I know one day I'll get mine And I know one day, hell it might be Monday I remember feeling trapped, I know I couldn't get out And when they laid my mama off, no, it just didn't amount I still remember how she looked when she walked into that house But still she tried her best to show me what was Christmas about And if we wanted hot water, we had to microwave it And every day, the power cut off, but we tolerated The thoughts of all the beats are lost, cause I forgot to save em I'm screaming at me in the mirror like I gotta make it My teacher trying to get through to me cause of my behavior I said I got big dreams and I gotta chase em I never cared a damn thing about a college major I only had one need, that was a lot of paper But see, I never had a thing but a lot of prayers After school, open mic night, rocking stages It all started from a demo to a limo From a limo to a Lambo And all of this came about in the cater I know one day, I won't have to wait in line I know one day, I'ma get those keys to that new ride I know one day I'll be fine And I know one day I'll get mine And I know one day, hell it might be Monday I used to dream about these days and the things that I'd do I had to get a new life cause the old just won't do I used to dream shades of gray, now the sky's shining blue And everyday it feels like there's no way I can lose Cause I knew one day, I wouldn't have to wait in line I knew one day, I would get those keys to that new ride I knew one day I'd be fine And I knew one day I'd get mine Yeah I knew one day And not just Monday Yeah What motivates B.O.B.? Initially when you're young and you're trying to be heard And you're broke trying to get money Then that's your motivation You've been able to have commercial success You know what I'm saying? You're doing shows, you're eating and *** So then people look like, what's his struggle? You know, since I was a kid man I grew up in a house, I tell this story all the time I grew up in a house where there really wasn't a house We literally grew up on a construction site We didn't have no doors and windows You know, heat and AC, no refrigerator We used to put our food in the cooler at night You know, when the sun went down we had to go sleep Cause we didn't have no lights That's crazy So mind you, at the same time as I'm growing up I'm thinking about the fact that It's people in third world countries who are way worse That I've actually seen now traveling the world performing Being like, yeah, you see nigga, they had it way worse than you did Exactly And so it's like, I never really took my situation that much to heart To the point where it was like a sob story for me But it was more of a motivational thing It was like, alright, nothing will ever be this bad again