[B.o.B - Verse 1]
Since day 1 I said $#&@ the fame and everything it dealt
But the fame is really here just to facilitate the wealth

But the wealth attracts you haters like you mosquitoes to a well
And the waters getting deeper so I'm well set out to sail
Someone called my cell and left a voicemail

That said congratulations on the million record sales
As I'm flipping over furniture knocking %#@! off the shelf
I told myself I'll never get too deep not to take a breathe

But I'm sinking

[Hook]

And it's so hard to breathe, yeah
And even more so to sleep when no-one cares
It was all I can eat

But now I'm sinking, so deep, I can't come up for air

[Verse 2]

Yeah I've seen the valley of the shadow of death
I've seen the mountains, the wild childhood
Thats why I sing about it

I just try to move on and keep my peace about it
But Come to think about it I can't even count the days that I've spent, starving tryna find some decent housing
That's why I'm always smiling but on this beat I seem so violent

So ask me 'bout the music scene and what the $#&@ I think about it
Time flies, I guess thats why I'm bugging
Just yesterday I was rapping with my brother and my cousin

If you had the stove or toaster on you couldn't use the oven
We knew that we were struggling, we just acted like we wasn't
It's either make it rapping, if not that than hustlin'

So all I see is magazine covers in this game
You either surface or you plummet
It's a thin line and I'm just tryna keep my head above it

DAMN!

[Hook]

And it's so hard to breathe (yeh-yeah)
And even more so to sleep when no-one cares
It was all I can eat

But now I'm sinking, so deep, I can't come up for air

[Bridge]

Air, I-I-I
I sink away, cause I sink away
I sink away

I sink away, I sink away
Get carried away, get carried away


[Hook]

[Outro]

Damn, it's never in the plans, but hey it's a long way than beating pots and pans (x3)
But now I'm sinking, so deep, I can't come up for air, air