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Arrived
You thought I fell off (Okay) They thought I went soft (No way) They say what they can 'Cause I do what I want (All day) Come back every time, they still act surprised Bodies drop at the top, tell 'em I've arrived Tell 'em, tell 'em (Tell 'em, tell 'em) Tell 'em I've arrived Seventeen had a dream that kept me alive Tell 'em, tell 'em (Tell 'em, tell 'em) Tell 'em I've arrived Seventeen had a dream, now I'm livin' mine Came up off a dream and a laptop Open doors for the team like a bellhop Used to cruise South Park when my shift end Spark spliffs while I shift through the west end Now I show up and they all got questions Back home and you know how the stress gets Tell the kids from the town with a passion I'm the proof you can move to the masses Yeah, they gonna tell you who to be (Lies!) Don't nobody wanna see you free (Why?) Everybody sayin' who to be Now they're tellin' everybody, so everybody repeats Livin' in a bubble where trouble is self-made SongtexteEveryone a lil' sorry for playin' it too safe So they wanna keep you livin' with them in the same cage Gotta show 'em that we're tired of livin' the same way Small town raised but I got it movin' 'cause I know I had to break that mold (Oh yeah) Mindstate from a high place Had to shift plates to be Grand as the peaks back home (Oh yeah) Shift gears when I hit tears On my tenth year payin' rent in the game, now I live here All it took was the pain and the passion What a way to come back from the ashes You thought I fell off (Okay) They thought I went soft (No way) They say what they can 'Cause I do what I want (All day) Come back every time, they still act surprised Bodies drop at the top, tell 'em I've arrived Tell 'em, tell 'em (Tell 'em, tell 'em) Tell 'em I've arrived Seventeen had a dream that kept me alive Tell 'em, tell 'em (Tell 'em, tell 'em) Tell 'em I've arrived Seventeen had a dream, now I'm livin' mine Yeah Yo, I arrived (Yeah) No, not to my surprise (No) Knew I would blow since I was five (Yeah) Now that boy shine like a firefly Can't dim the light when I hold the flame (Yeah) Coach rappers, now I know the game (Yeah) Straightjacket 'cause the flow insane (Yeah) Real life how I wrote the page My story got started with catchin' bodies Bend the industry, I spit Pilates Paper stackin' underneath the mattress now Can't fold it, no origami Know who around me, only day ones Fake, what I stay away from Safe around me, better stay from 'round me If you hatin' on me, you get tapped up (Look) Get paid just to walk in the club Pop me a bottle, don't talk to a scrub If you show love, then it's reciprocated My people done made it, we came from the mud Remember the days I was makin' a dub Now it's Kinko's the way that my paper is up Been droppin' bars since the man was a boy I was writin' my rhymes while they played in the tub You thought I fell off (Okay) They thought I went soft (No way) They say what they can 'Cause I do what I want (All day) Come back every time, they still act surprised Bodies drop at the top, tell 'em I've arrived Tell 'em, tell 'em (Tell 'em, tell 'em) Tell 'em I've arrived Seventeen had a dream that kept me alive Tell 'em, tell 'em (Tell 'em, tell 'em) Tell 'em I've arrived Seventeen had a dream, now I'm livin' mine Aus Songtexte Mania