Oh I've been travelin' on this road too long
Just tryna find my way back home
The old me is dead and gone

Dead and gone oh oh

Ever had one of them days wish would've stayed home

Run into a group of suckers trying to get they hate on
You walk by they get wrong
You reply then %#@! gets blown


Way outta proportion way past discussion
Just you against them pick one then rush 'em

Figure you'll get jumped hell that's nothing
They don't wanna stop there now they bussin'


Now you gushin' ambulance rushin'
You to the hospital with a bad concussion
Hit four times plus it hit your spine

Paralyzed waist down now ya wheel chair bound

Never mind that now you lucky to be alive

Just think it all started you fussin' with 3 guys
Now ya pride in the way but ya pride is the way
You could mess around get shot die any day


People die everyday all over bull %#@!
Dope money dice game ordinary hood %#@!

Could this be 'cause of hip hop music?
Or did the ones with the good sense not use it?


Usually people don't know what to do
When their back against the wall so they just start shootin'
For red or for blue or for dope I guess

From Bankhead or from your projects

No more stress now I'm straight now I get it now I take

Time to think before I make mistakes just for my family's sake
That part of me left yesterday the heart of me is strong today
No regrets I'm blessed to say the old me dead and gone away


Oh I've been travelin' on this road too long
Just tryna find my way back home

The old me is dead and gone
Dead and gone oh oh


I ain't never been scared I lived through tragedy
Situation could've been dead lookin' back at it
Most of that %#@! didn't even have to happen

But you don't think about it when you out there trappin'

In apartments hangin' smokin' and rappin'

Suckers start %#@! next thing ya know we cappin'
Get locked up then didn't even get mad
Now think about damn what a life I had


Most of that %#@! look back just laugh
Some %#@! still look back get sad

Maybe my homeboy still be around
Had I not hit the sucker with a knife that time


I won that fight I lost that boy
I can still see my homie walkin' out that door
Who'da thought I'd never see Philant no more?

Got enough dead homies I don't want no more

Cost a sucker his job cost me more

I'd took that $$#-whooping now for sure
Now I think before I risk my life
Take them chances to get my stripe


A sucker put his hands on me alright
Otherwise stand there talk %#@! all night

'Cos I hit you you sue me
I shoot you locked up who me?


No more stress now I'm straight now I get it now I take
Time to think before I make mistakes just for my family's sake
That part of me left yesterday the heart of me is strong today
No regrets I'm blessed to say the old me dead and gone away


Oh I've been travelin' on this road too long
Just tryna find my way back home
The old me is dead and gone
Dead and gone oh oh


I turn my head to the East
I don't see nobody by my side
I turn my head to the West
Still nobody in sight


So I turn my head to the North
Swallow that pill that they call pride
That old me is dead and gone
But that new me will be alright


I turn my head to the East
I don't see nobody by my side
I turn my head to the West
Still nobody in sight

So I turn my head to the North

Swallow that pill that they call pride
That old me is dead and gone
But that new me will be alright

Oh I've been travelin' on this road too long
Just tryna find my way back home
The old me is dead and gone

Dead and gone
(But that new me will be alright)
Oh oh

Oh
I've been travelin' on this road too long
(But that new me will be alright)

Just tryna find my way back home
(But that new me will be alright)
The old me is dead and gone
(But that new me will be alright)
Dead and gone
Oh oh