Leave Me Alone - Nems

Crown Jewel

Look

Whatever happened to you back then

Let it stay in the past

You keep relivin' it and replayin' it in your mind

Your life is gonna be miserable and life ain’t made to be miserable

Life is meant for you to be great

Leave that shit behind you and move forward

Lets get it, my nigga

I don’t wanna sound mad I feel marvelous

Running through all of these pills like I’m a pharmacist

I told God I don’t wanna be a bother

Just let me know how you leave a four year old fatherless

Chasing a high with my face to the sky

Still wondering why I can’t get a reply

Mad that I can’t cry, mind getting confused

Since he won’t say a word to me, I figured I’d just ask you

What up, pop?

Ya baby boy is all grown

I can’t complain about a thing 'cause this is all I’ve ever known

But sometimes I get jealous seeing kids with they dads

In a few years I’ll be the same age you was when you passed

Sometimes I get sad and sometimes I get mad

Or push my feelings deep down and cover it up with a laugh

I could blame you for every problem that I’ve ever had

But somewhere inside I know that this was part of God’s path

But still, where was my dad to teach me how to ride a bike?

Where was you at to teach me how to win a fight?

I felt alone everyday through the night

'Cause I been searching for a father figure all of my life

I had to learn from a woman how to be a man

And she did a great job but some things she couldn’t understand

I needed your guidance grab me by the hand for direction

All my life I wanted to ask you this question, pop

Leave me alone, leave me alone

Why did you leave me alone?

Leave me alone, leave me alone

How could you leave me alone?

Leave me alone, leave me alone

Why did you leave me alone?

Leave me alone

Every evening I have a by myself meeting

First off, I know you did your best with what you was given

I never held no resentments, you already forgiven

From the date of my birth to all them visits in prison

You the reason I’m living

Probably the strongest woman I know

Put me in private school, took us out the hood

You was raising me different from you that I understood

Single mother with her own home, shit was amazing

But when you relapsed that snatched my security blanket

Now we back in the projects, everyday was defeat

I was just becoming a man, you was running the street

The pain, the shame, the guilt, it hurt so deep

And the fact that I couldn’t help you hurt so much I couldn’t eat

Couldn’t sleep, didn’t know what to do

You went away to rehab and I got high like you, uh

All those nights I just needed my mother

And while you were gone I would sit up and wonder

Leave me alone, leave me alone

Why did you leave me alone?

Leave me alone, leave me alone

How could you leave me alone?

Leave me alone, leave me alone

Why did you leave me alone?

You merely adopted the dark

I was born in it

No one to guide me had to find myself

No sisters no brothers grew up by myself

Single mother working, I was home by myself

They locked me up, threw me in the box by myself

Now I done seen the isolation crush plenty of men

And I done lost so many times, you’d think I hated to win

But I adapted to the darkness and I made it my friend

Made an outlet for my aggression and named it Nems

See, me?

I rather joke and laugh, lighten up the pace

But Nems ain’t with the talking, he’ll just punch you in your face

All that anger and insecurity turned into hate

And I gotta to conquer all these demons if I wanna be great

I just be in the crib, I don’t party with the fake

Industry type motherfuckers that couldn’t relate

I might show up late, walk inside show my face

Then leave without saying nothing like that’s all I can take

Fuck it

Leave me alone, leave me alone

Would you just leave me alone?

Leave me alone, leave me alone

Could you just leave me alone?

Leave me alone, leave me alone

Why can’t you leave me alone?

Leave me alone, catch me in the corner not speakin'

Catch me in the corner not speakin'

Catch me in the corner not speakin'

Catch me in the corner not speakin'

Catch me in the corner not speakin'

Fuck Ya Life

Hahahahaha, this nigga ill, yo, this nigga’s ill

See, I’m from Detroit, born and raised

So when you was up here for the first half hour

You know, for the first half hour of however long you been up here

You was like, «Nigga, nigga, nigga» and I’m lookin' at you like

«He gotta be maybe Puerto Rican», 'cause I don’t understand

Nah, I already looked at him and shit, he’s Latino

Somethin' to do with it

But when you see him, you may not, people don’t see that initially,

so I get the concern

Bein' from Detroit, we don’t have a bunch of different cultures

But you see, once he opened his mouth

Uh-huh

That’s Latino