[Verse 1]
Flat broke, having Richard Mille visions while I'm chilling in my loft
My children miss they father, workin' out, I'm missin' calls
Suffered at the hands I love, trust come with a cost
Exhausted as I recover from the millions I done lost
Feelings come across
Everybody 'round ain't really with me
Ever been on this side of the fence? You gotta feel me
Rumour since a kid, a lot of people wanna kill me
They just talk good as a bitch, I'm by myself, bitch, come and get me
Canik got a fifty, you flinch, you comin' with me
Standin' on that business, I'm slinging it 'til it's empty
In the streets of BR, it's the hardest way of livin'
The good die young and all the others go to prison
My heart been under strain, a lot of things that I don't mention
Ain't hands-on with it, you can't paint this kind of picture

[Chorus]
Wanna forgive, but it's a lot that I can't let go
Disrespect me, you got to be careful in the Metro

[Verse 2]
With me right or wrong, trill, respect the way I'm built
Hardheaded in the past 'cause I ain't let 'em pick my friends
Same people I'm relyin' in been tryna get me peeled
Pimpin' sayin' these the consequences of keeping it real
They admired and they envied, fake cases they gon' build
They'll love to see me liberated, this is not a drill
Safety pin, flippin' nickel rocks and turned it into zips
On the clock workin' the Digi scale, we weigh up every tenth
From the J's receivin' change, how we turned it into bricks
Addin' corners, grabbin' soda, then go stand up in the kitch'
Yellow box of plastic baggies, ain't no sandwich gettin' fixed
Stuff the package in the corner, rip the bag and burn the tips
I-10 survivor, back and forth to Texas takin' trips
Out on bail, juggin' hard to pay the lawyers and the rent
On color code wearing gloves in case they caught me in the piss
Prayin' for a crooked attorney so the case'll get dismissed
[Chorus]
Convicted felon, heavy metal what I kept close
Disrespect me, you got to be careful in the Metro

[Post-Chorus]
Based on instruction, the game and reality
Life on the main stage, can't let 'em shackle me
Remember every missed meal, that hunger pain fluent
This allowin' me to make grown man music
Grown man music
Yeah, we makin' grown man music

[Chorus]
Wanna forgive, but it's a lot that I can't let go
Disrespect me, you got to be careful in the Metro

[Verse 3]
Back in every way, he feel alert when pumpin' petrol
Servin' dog food, turned the trap into a Petco
Compartment with the strap attached, we not talkin' Velcro
Keep it on my lap, receive the pack from off a cellphone
Cali top drop, let down the flap when I'm on Melrose
Foreign bitch from 'cross the border in the water on a sailboat
These other rappers lyin', I still get 'em for the LO
I'm a general, so who the fuck is I'ma tell on?
[Chorus]
Wanna forgive, but it's a lot that I can't let go
Disrespect me, you got to be careful in the Metro

[Post-Chorus]
Remember every missed meal, that hunger pain fluent
This allowin' me to make grown man music