Joe budden - Calm Down

Old school Mouse off of Album Joe buddenCalm down... calm down... Baby just calm down... (Calm down... )She use to tell me to... calm down... Moms use to tell me to... calm down... Baby just calm down... She use to tell me to... calm down... Moms use to tell me to... calm down... (She would pray that I would) Baby just calm down... Calm down... [Budden â€" Verse 1]Look, I was such a lost soul, just wanted to be down with somethingLook at your son now mommy I amounted to somethingYou couldn't figure out, what I had messed with the streets forCause you saw my genius without a SAT scoreI took drugs and laced it with thingsBut you a addict yourself,For you I would peep(?) for places and things (how the fuck you thought)Angeldust use to have me in the hallways twurkedI tried to hide it, but Visine didn't always workI needed someone to blame in my mindI thought if you and dad never used dope I would a came out fineAnd so I hit you hard when you threw in adviceLike what I want to talk to you about you ruined my lifeYou the reason why I ended up a con and I knew itThe reason I filled my body with that bomin fluid, mommyYou the reason that my life's gone illegalThe reason I'm kinda different, don't think like normal people, not calm[Chorus]She use to tell me to... calm down... Moms use to tell me to... calm down... (Use to pray that I would) Baby just calm down... You gotta hold your head up cause we gone make itShe use to tell me to... calm down... Moms use to tell me to... calm down... (You got to understand what I was going through)Baby just calm down... Everything's gonna be alrightShe use to tell me to... calm down... Moms use to tell me to... calm down... (But a nigga wouldn't) Baby just calm down... You gotta hold your head up cause we gone make it y'all[Budden â€" Verse 2]Listen... ain't shit like seeing your moms crying on the floorKnowing you the reason why she ain't alright no moreBut so young, I was like whateverYou use to chase me through the house with the knife like get your life togetherFucking drugs, how could I ever amp on youAnd what made me think that I could lay my hands on youI'm not surprised that you mad at meMuch as you hated my father, your youngest son is just like his daddyMommy I live life rude, how could you not understand itOn the same note I'm just like youI got moms sensitivity, my fathers ballsHis humor, his g, and my heart is yoursFuck school, cause I had my majorCome to grips that it ain't so much the drugs, it's the addict behavior (no)Was it the dic charge, the cut that came with itWasn't really the smoking, but the rush that came with it (wasn't calm people)[Chorus]She use to tell me to... calm down... Calm down... (but a nigga wouldn't) Baby just calm down... You gotta hold your head up cause we gone make it y'all(do it with me people) Calm down... Calm down... (try to understand it) Baby just calm down... (those kind of things) Everything's gonna be alrightCalm down... (just bare with me for a... for a brief moment y'all)Calm down... Baby just calm down... You gotta hold your head up cause we gone make it y'all[Budden â€" Verse 3]I felt so alone, I had a crew, but so whatThen when Angela stabbed me guess who showed upAnd when people said I‘d always be ill and twistedAnd when the therapist had told us that the pills would fix itWas sick of being sick, I was finally hurtWith all the praying that you did ma, it finally workedGod gave you a son back, I won't offend you againWon't let the disease turn me against you againUse to be high as ever, (but I) Joey Jr. got his life togetherAs a result, now we tighter than everSo blessed, so grateful to be seeing tomorrow (see the whole world)That's why I can't take a drink, not if even a swallowI can't picture me twisted, like what I'm a do nowHaters I can't stop yet, my mothers to proudSecure now, don't need to be down with nothingLook at your son now mommy, I amounted to somethingI'm so calm[Chorus]Calm down... Calm down... (but a nigga wouldn't calm down) Baby just calm down... You gotta hold your head up cause we gone make it y'all (hold up)She use to tell me to... calm down... (Use to pray that I would) calm down... (But I couldn't, I couldn't, couldn't do it) Baby just calm down... (Nothing heals like time people) Everything's gonna be alright(Understand that) calm down... Calm down... (Fucking miracle) Baby just calm down... You gotta hold your head up cause we gone make it y'all(They said I wouldn't reach 21 y'all... I'm still standing)Calm down... Thanks ma... Calm down... I couldn't do it without youCalm down... Calm down... You are appreciatedCalm down... Fa sho... Calm down... It's a slow process y'allOne day at a time though... to get beautiful

Channel: Music
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: JoeBuddenOnTopMuzik

Length: 05:16
Rating: 4.85
Views: 114943

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