Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Ain't a goddamn thing gonna change
I'm still the same Vinnie
I'm still the same fat motherfucker
Same guinea a little bit more money that's
Why I ain't skinny
Still the same block hugger
Still the same city
I still got the same people
That remain with me
That was drinking 40s with me
When they slain Biggie
And the same motherfuckers felt
The pain with me
When my stepfather died and they came with me
I ain't expect nothing less from
Them they chained to me
Spiritually, mentally, we the same really
We all was raised on different
Blocks in the same Philly
Still some stupid motherfuckers saying
They can't feel me
Actually they do feel me
They just ashamed really
That they ain't shining like the kid
A bunch of lames really
Dirtbags trying to make the kid insane really
But Louie Dogs just impervious to pain really
Every morning I rise up, I open my eyes
Thinking I'm the shit
I guarantee if you're fucking with me
You gon' know who you're fucking with
I been this way since I came of age
And I never did play them games
I'll be this way till the day I lay
Cause ain't a goddamn thing gonna change
It ain't anybody ever gonna hold me down
I'm one of the greatest ever
Homie i stole the crown
I'm too strong and fast you
Ain't slowing me down
I'm gonna keep beating your head
Call me Homie D clown
I hope that y'all are holding
Close to your rosaries now
I think I got a couple snitches
That's close to me now
If I was them I'd keep it
Moving be ghost from me now
And pray that they don't run
Into Vinnie socially now
It's always one motherfucker trying
To set you up
Dry snitch take something from you
Wet you up i was sleeping, being dumb
Trying to protect the fuck
He getting buck fifty slice him
From his neck to gut
All in all ain't nothing changed
Still the same squad
Some are still hustling summers
At the same job
Some is 9 to 5, some is on the graveyard
I'd rather have them on tour with
Me so I pray hard
I'm still the same Vinnie
I'm still the same fat motherfucker
Same guinea a little bit more money that's
Why I ain't skinny
Still the same block hugger
Still the same city
I still got the same people
That remain with me
That was drinking 40s with me
When they slain Biggie
And the same motherfuckers felt
The pain with me
When my stepfather died and they came with me
I ain't expect nothing less from
Them they chained to me
Spiritually, mentally, we the same really
We all was raised on different
Blocks in the same Philly
Still some stupid motherfuckers saying
They can't feel me
Actually they do feel me
They just ashamed really
That they ain't shining like the kid
A bunch of lames really
Dirtbags trying to make the kid insane really
But Louie Dogs just impervious to pain really
Every morning I rise up, I open my eyes
Thinking I'm the shit
I guarantee if you're fucking with me
You gon' know who you're fucking with
I been this way since I came of age
And I never did play them games
I'll be this way till the day I lay
Cause ain't a goddamn thing gonna change
It ain't anybody ever gonna hold me down
I'm one of the greatest ever
Homie i stole the crown
I'm too strong and fast you
Ain't slowing me down
I'm gonna keep beating your head
Call me Homie D clown
I hope that y'all are holding
Close to your rosaries now
I think I got a couple snitches
That's close to me now
If I was them I'd keep it
Moving be ghost from me now
And pray that they don't run
Into Vinnie socially now
It's always one motherfucker trying
To set you up
Dry snitch take something from you
Wet you up i was sleeping, being dumb
Trying to protect the fuck
He getting buck fifty slice him
From his neck to gut
All in all ain't nothing changed
Still the same squad
Some are still hustling summers
At the same job
Some is 9 to 5, some is on the graveyard
I'd rather have them on tour with
Me so I pray hard
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