JustTrae - Just A Thought

Yeah, it's just a thought I had, sittin' around one day
See I got money on my mind, but that's the rule of all evil
They say money make you shine, but they don't shine like certain people
Certain people in my life will make you branch out like a sequel
Everyone is changing around me, they don't stay to see the prequel
All the work that I put in will never match up anyways
Cause everyone that's always laughing at me sees my rainy days
They never stay to watch me grow, they never stay to see me shine
They watch me make a couple dollars, watch em flip just like a dime
But I would never understand it cause I'm working overtime
You never know who's always with you or against you with the grind
See I got money on my mind, but that's the rule of all evil
They say money make you shine, but they don't shine like certain people
What's the point of all my music when no one else can see my change
The only change you ever want is all my money in my bank
The only change I ever wanted was for you to see my change
That I will make it out the city just recording all my pain
And just to show these little kids that they got more than just the gangs
With all this money in the industry ain't no one making change
You see these little kids just run around with nothing else to think
They're playing songs about just killing people, tell me what you think
And I just wanna change the world, but all these people never wanna change
No matter what I do or how I move, they censor anyway
It's just a thought I had inside my mind that I cannot erase
That they been scraping change up off these kids to make some pocket change
They paper chase and rearrange your mind to see the better things
They promise you these things to show you what it's like to chase a dream
They got money on they mind and that's the rule of all evil
They say money make you shine, but they don't shine like certain people
Certain people in my path, they never get a chance to fight
The fight I had to put up on my own, I struggled all my life
I struggled every single night to show these people what it's like
And what it's like to be alone when no one else gave me the light
I looked at every single person in my phone, struggled just to type
My family's always texting me, I don't know if it's right
I haven't spoke to you in years, cause you was caught up in the light
The light was always shining down, but you was never in my life
But I just picked your phone up anyways, cause you was always right
You say the money was the rule of all evil, my pockets getting tight
I just want a couple dollars, will you send it out for free
Will you sign my name to clarify so everyone can see
You know I love you, even dad knows it, I just need it for groceries
And can you please just help me little bro, cause you been hard to reach
See I got money on my mind, but that's the rule of all evil
They say money make you shine, but they don't shine like certain people
Certain people in my life will make you branch out like a sequel
Everyone is changing around me, they don't stay to see the prequel
I got money on my mind, but that's the rule of all evil
They say money make you shine, but they don't shine like certain people
Certain people in my life will make you branch out like a sequel
Everyone is changing around me, they don't stay to see the prequel
Just because that we are blood, that doesn't mean it makes us family
All those kids you trying to raise up on your own, they need a family
I remember like it's yesterday, you left Amari stranded
On the porch with no one else, and you just left him empty handed
I was just a ninth grade, an dad went out to save the day
I just imagine how we felt of how his daughter ran away
She ran away from all her kids, the little blessings that she made
And now my father's raising three kids that will never be the same
I know my dad is gonna raise them right, move away from gangs and fights
Those kids will never see the light if they move back to ghetto lifes
Slaying drugs and taking lives, running under city lights
Staying after dark cause I would know you wouldn't raise them right
And you just wanted money for those kids cause you were pocket tight
And now you took full custody, I pray to God they see the light
They see the true color in you, cause I know we raised them right
I hope they have a bed to lay their heads so they can sleep at night
Just pray they get to dream tonight, I pray they hit the ceiling high
I pray they hear this message when they grow up and they get to fly
I hope they spread their wings and get up higher than the city lights
I pray they have a family, of they own and get to treat them right
Just hope they find a job and find the better things in life
Instead of robbing and the killing that they witness every night
I never pray but I just pray for them cause I know that it's right
I know their dad is locked away, their mom was never in their life
But now she wants to pick a fight and choose the money over rights
The rights to having all the credit when she never stayed in sight
I never understood it, money never was the rule of life
Until she started running around and doing drugs to save her life
I'm talking now in present day, another baby on the way
I pray to God you treat her right cause there ain't nothing you can say
And there ain't nothing you can do so stay the fuck out of the way
Cause you just ruined everybody's life with every step you take
Cause she got money on her mind and that's the rule of all evil
They say money make you shine but they don't shine like certain people
Certain people in my life will make you burn shine like a sequel
Everyone is changing around me they don't stay to see the prequel
Just a thought
JustTrae

Written by:
Trae Villarreal

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