You know you can't ever say that I didn't put in my time
You definitely can't say that that I ain't put in my work
And I know deep down inside I've given everything that I could give
And this is what you do to me
Okay, let's go
Yeah,
I admit when I started this my path wasn't clear to me
My heart was in the music for what the crowd wanted to see
The people all around me,
they pointed my direction
Beating off my creativity like a bad infection
But still I pressed on, ground up to the sky
Through situations I've been facing,
now I'm finally seeing why
The road was never paved and it stretched away for miles
Hard times were necessary just to build me up inside
Oiled by the years I spent inside of that shack
Multiplied by the times that I've been stabbed in my back
Equals where I stand today,
I'm as strong as an oak With roots and structure
weighing that further than what you can go
You wanna test me?
How about I give a pop quiz?
Who sacrificed their life and all the time with their kids?
Funded this operation and put the wheels in the wind
Referred to you as family when I exposed you to my kids
Turn your back on me now,
go and face the crowd And you'll see that nothing
in this world is for free And just so you know,
I knew that you would go from the deep
I watched you turn your back on me
The road is now my home and my goals are to the
sky I'm fueled by the fans involved in my life
We sip from the jar and smoke the same shrub I
took you to that level and look what you've done
You cashed in your hand for a small slice of the pie That
wouldn't fill that deaded belly when the bills start to fly
Fast cash never lasts,
you'll figure that out But by that time it's
too late cause you done soared your route
You burnt down the one bridge that connected us all
Sold your soul to a devil and just let the chips fall
On my side of the line,
we care for our folks I've been the one that
you could see when you was down and broke
The shoulder to lean on,
the ear for the pain The roof over your head just to shelter the rain
And this is how you thank me?
With a vindictive hug so you can find another spot
Give my back for a cut, what?
Turn your back on me now,
go and face the crowd And you'll see
that nothing in this world is for free
And just so you know,
I knew that you would go from the deep
I watched you turn your back on me
Looking through my eyes,
the clouds were turning kind of gray But as I take a closer look,
it seems the storm has passed away
It's just the cost of living and it's all it had
to be But at the end of everything you'll see,
you never can be me
You think you wanna fill these shoes,
walk on broken glass?
Put in the endless hours cleaning up these broken tracks
You couldn't hold the mic in front of my camp folk I
promise they gon' see the truth and your career will choke
That's the lesson here today and many years
to come Don't bite the hand that feeds you,
the result is never fun
Plenty sleepless nights looking over your back And the
tracks you pushing dead cause they're missing that crack
Then hooked them from the jump and put them on strong
Them shirts couldn't sell a sleeve without me on that song
But it is what it is,
as I've always heard So turn your back on
me now and those will be your final words
Turn your back on me now, go and face the crowd
And you'll see that nothing in this world is for free
And just so you know,
I knew that you would go from the deep
I watched you turn your back on me