Understand - Cantrell

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Uh, mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-da-da-da

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Yeah, yeah

Pull up

Look, pull up a chair

I got some things I wanna put in your ear

Get close so you’ll hear me clear

You got a light, you should handle with care, peep

I got question for you, you remember your first fight?

Your first love or first lay or first flight?

Your first loss or the first time you got high

Or warm house with heated stove on cold nights?

What about your first time that you felt hate?

Or what about your first time that you felt God?

The point is, it can’t last if it’s only pain

I’ve danced in heavy rain and seen the sun shine

I feel you, you feeling down and feeling sad

Like QBs with no speed, it’s gotta pass

It’s no breeze, I’m no saint, I’m just a man

I’m just here let you know that I understand

It takes time to understand

That life ain’t promised, I mean I understand

We learn from it, I know, but understand

Understand that we never really understand

It takes time to understand

That life ain’t promised, I mean I understand

We learn from it, I know, but understand

Understand that we- Yeah

Plant a seed, do the work, grow a tree

Sewing seams, on point like folded knees

Poetries, quarter keys, hood floetry

Ole-Es, Dark Brown, I drew these therapies

Woe is me, many problems that really no one sees

Go with me, carry baggage that really no one needs

Let it breathe, 'til you feel at ease

Until they believe, I give you more of me

See, I been looking for guidance, I been running from problems

I been racking up mileage, I been slipping and falling

Get a text from my father, I’m inclined to ignore it

But I only get one of 'em, maybe I should’ve called?

Forget it, another story of a black boy lost

How many stories you done heard thus far?

We only go so far, it’s the road it’s the journey and all

And goal is why we go so hard, but I know It takes time

It takes time to understand

That life ain’t promised, I mean I understand

We learn from it, I know, but understand

Understand that we never really understand

It takes time to understand

That life ain’t promised, I mean I understand

We learn from it, I know, but understand

Understand that we never really understand

What ya know good youngin?

I see what’s going on with ya and just wanted you to know

That the devil can’t hold no power over you

The devil never even lived

I ain’t saying he didn’t exist

I’m just saying he ain’t come and do what son of Joseph did

Remember that

That negative energy can’t phase you if you keep a positive mind and spirit

Stay the course

You’re not what you go through

But what you go through helps make you who you are

Through the known and unexplained

Stay the course, youngin

Stay the course