Chorus:

(Justin Timberlake):

Ooooooo
I've been travelin
On this road to long

Just trying to find
My way back home
The old me

Is dead and gone
Dead and gone
Ooooooo

I've been travelin
On this road to long
Just trying to find

My way back home
The old me
Is dead and gone

Dead and gone

(T.I.)

Ever had one of dem days
U wish woulda stayd home
Run into a group of ^!$$%s

Getting they hate on
U walk by
They get wrong u reply

Then %#@! get blown
Way outta proportion
Way past discussion

Just u against them,
Pick one then rush em
Figure u get your hair?

That next
They don't wanna stop
There now they bussin

Now u gushin, ambulance
Rushin u to the hospital
With a bad concussion

Plus ya hit 4 times
Plus it hit ya
Spine paralyzed waist down

Now ya wheel chair bound
Nevermind that now
U lucky to be alive,

Just think it all started u
Fussin with 3 guys
Now ya pride in the way

But ya pride is the way u
Could $#&@ around
Get shot die anyday

^!$$%s die
Every day all over
Bull %#@! dope money dice

Game ordinary hood %#@!
Could this be
Cuz of hip hop music

Or did the ones
With the good sense
Not use it

Usually ^!$$%s
Don't kno what to do
When their back

Against the wall
So they just start shootin
For red or for blue

Or for blo 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 familys 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.


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(T.I.)
I aint never been scared,
I lived through tragedy

Situation coulda been dead
Lookin back at it
Most of that %#@!
Didn't even have to happen
But u don't think about it

When u out there trappin
In apartments hangin
Smokin and rappin
^!$$%s start %#@! didn't
Next thing ya kno 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 just sad
Maybe my homboy
Till be around
Had I not
Hit the ^!$$%
In the mouth that time

I won that fight, I lost that war
I can still see my ^!$$%
Walkin out that door
Whoda thought I'd never see
Philant no more
Got enough dead homies
I don't want no more

Cost a ^!$$% his job,
Cost me more
Ida took that $$#-whoopin
Now for sure
Now think before I risk my life
Take them chances to get my stripe
A ^!$$% put his hands on me alright

Otherwise stand there
Talk %#@! all night
Cuz I hit you, you sue me,
I shoot you, get 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 familys 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.


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(J.T.)
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
The old me is dead and gone,
The 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
The old me is dead and gone,
The new me will be alright

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