Potential

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Give up
Just give up
Boy, you'll never live up to your potential

Slow your role
Just slow it down
Make realistic goals
Cause you know this world is terrible
Like a two year old

Hey man, I used to have my dreams
But, things ain't as good as they seem sometimes
Hey man, I used to think up schemes
But they didn't pan out
Now I'm holding this pan out

Damn, I got a mother that says she still loves me
But when I call home she don't give me no money
Fam acting funny
And my old friends tell me keep going
Like the energizer bunny

But I'm running out, running out, running out
You should've seen me, in elementary
It was meant to be
If I went missin, man
They would've sent for me
They would treat me tenderly
Reach the pinnacle, seemed so simple, g
Now, I stay solemnly
Stugglin on a bended me
Energy
Negative
I get gone and gone and gone and gone

To ease the pain I took some some sedatives
Maybe if I never lived
(Naw, Naw, Naw, Naw)
Maybe, Maybe
(Naw, Naw, Naw, Naw, Naw)

I fell into a coma
(This life is a gift)
(This life is a gift, man)

I snapped out
Why would I ever quit before I crap out
Voices in my head, gotta drown them joints out
When they say

I don't hear yall
No, I don't hear yall no mo
Man, I don't hear yall

It's beautiful
I think it's beautiful
I think you're beautiful
I know you're beautiful
I know I'm beautiful

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from 42., released August 7, 2016
Written by Erick Richardson.
Produced by Handbook.
Album art by Adline Bradley.

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