[Intro]
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Calm down... calm down...
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Baby just calm down...
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(Calm down...)
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She use to tell me to... calm down...
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Moms use to tell me to... calm down...
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Baby just calm down...
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She use to tell me to... calm down...
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Moms use to tell me to... calm down...
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(She would pray that I would) Baby just calm down...
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Calm down...
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[Budden ?Verse 1]
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Look, I was such a lost soul, just wanted to be down with something
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Look at your son now mommy I amounted to something
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You couldn't figure out, what I had messed with the streets for
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Cause you saw my genius without a SAT score
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I took drugs and laced it with things
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But you a addict yourself,
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For you I was people, places and things (how the fuck you thought)
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Angeldust use to have me in the hallways twurked
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I tried to hide it, but Visine didn't always work
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I needed someone to blame in my mind
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I thought if you and dad never used dope I would a came out fine
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And so I hit you hard when you threw in advice
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Like what I want to talk to you about you ruined my life
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You the reason why I ended up a con and I knew it
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The reason I filled my body with embomin fluid, mommy
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You the reason that my life's gone illegal
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The reason I'm kinda different, don't think like normal people, not calm
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[Chorus]
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She use to tell me to... calm down...
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Moms use to tell me to... calm down...
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(Use to pray that I would) Baby just calm down...
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You gotta hold your head up cause we gone make it
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She use to tell me to... calm down...
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Moms use to tell me to... calm down...
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(You got to understand what I was going through)
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Baby just calm down...
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Everything's gonna be alright
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She use to tell me to... calm down...
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Moms use to tell me to... calm down...
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(But a nigga wouldn't) Baby just calm down...
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You gotta hold your head up cause we gone make it y'all
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[Budden ?Verse 2]
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Listen... ain't shit like seeing your moms crying on the floor
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Knowing you the reason why she ain't alright no more
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But so young, I was like whatever
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You use to chase me through the house with the knife like get your life together
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Fucking drugs, how could I ever amp on you
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And what made me think that I could lay my hands on you
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I'm not surprised that you mad at me
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Much as you hated my father, your youngest son is just like his daddy
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Mommy I live life rude, how could you not understand it
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On the same note I'm just like you
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I got moms sensitivity, my fathers balls
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His humor, his g, and my heart is yours
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Fuck school, cause I had my major
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Come to grips that it ain't so much the drugs, it's the addict behavior (no)
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Was it the dic charge, the cut that came with it
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Wasn't really the smoking, but the rush that came with it (wasn't calm people)
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[Chorus]
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She use to tell me to... calm down...
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Calm down...
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(but a nigga wouldn't) Baby just calm down...
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You gotta hold your head up cause we gone make it y'all
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(do it with me people) Calm down...
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Calm down...
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(try to understand it) Baby just calm down...
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(those kind of things) Everything's gonna be alright
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Calm down... (just bare with me for a... for a brief moment y'all)
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Calm down...
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Baby just calm down...
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You gotta hold your head up cause we gone make it y'all
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[Budden ?Verse 3]
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I felt so alone, I had a crew, but so what
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Then when Angela stabbed me guess who showed up
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And when people said I‘d always be ill and twisted
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And when the therapist had told us that the pills would fix it
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Was sick of being sick, I was finally hurt
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With all the praying that you did ma, it finally worked
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God gave you a son back, I won't offend you again
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Won't let the disease turn me against you again
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Use to be high as ever, (but I) Joey Jr. got his life together
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As a result, now we tighter than ever
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So blessed, so grateful to be seeing tomorrow (see the whole world)
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That's why I can't take a drink, not if even a swallow
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I can't picture me twisted, like what I'm a do now
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Haters I can't stop yet, my mothers to proud
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Secure now, don't need to be down with nothing
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Look at your son now mommy, I amounted to something
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I'm so calm
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[Chorus]
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Calm down...
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Calm down...
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