Two Steps Back - Danny Brown

Seen niggas lose lives over eightball money

Seen crack babies grow up to serve they mommy

Can’t explain why we live with so much sorrow

Guess the stories of today’ll be a movie tomorrow

Mama always said there’d be days like this

Ain’t got my own pot so in the alley I piss

I’ll risk my own life to be rich

Workin' like a slave for them chains and whips

I daydream around palm trees

Blowin' haze in the day summertime breeze

But in reality I just blow my breath

Let the Michigan cold numb my flesh

I need a tissue cus my nose is runnin'

Faced harsh winters, locked hot summer

Fuck the president and the next running

None of them niggas gon' let me hold something

Take one step forward and two steps back

Nobody gets nowhere like that

I take one step forward and two steps back

Nobody gets through life like that

I take one step forward and two steps back

Nobody gets through life like that

Take one step forward and two steps back

Nobody gets nowhere like that

At night I lay in bed and just pray I can sleep

Think about my life with the TV on the blink

Starin' at the ceiling, I just think

Should I write my own will but I ran outta ink

Ask God questions almost every day

I almost get my answers a damn year later

I rolled in (…) (…)

Spit for crack babies

Layin' incubators

This is for my niggas workin' nine to five

They wanna beat they boss ass but they gotta survive

For the ones who hustle, had to slow up

Cause they wanna be around and see they kids grow up

My boy got a chain for his thirteenth birthday

Went to school, niggas jumped him the next day

Truthfully, they took his honesty

Cause now my nigga locked up for two armed robberies

One step forward and two steps back

Nobody gets through life like that

I take one step forward and two steps back

Nobody gets nowhere like that

I take one step forward and two steps back

Nobody gets through life like that

I take one step forward and two steps back

Nobody gets nowhere like that

Yeah-yuh

That’s how it is sometimes you know

Shout out to all my niggas with they dreams though man

Don’t give up

You gotta keep movin' man

All my Detroit niggas, we fucked up

We gon' make it outta this shit man…