I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
[Hook]
2$ started off wit 2$
That's not the wave
2$ started off wit 2$
That's dead broke
2$ started off wit 2$
That's not eating
2$ started off wit 2$
2$ I woke up wit 2$
[Verse 1]
I wanna smoke a nick I'm short a few dollars
I asked him for a tick but he need true dollars
You know he sayin no if you knew about him
Niggas tight on bread it's like I'm hugging loaves
And all a nigga want to do is fucking smoke
I know I'm worth at least a million cnotes
Fire tracks I keep those plus I know people
2$ means I need some new dollars
I used to want a gig but the. My dreams followed
Go hard or go home that's the theme and motto
And go get it cuz it's yours and bitch believe the motto
I know I'll only get it if I come to you
So lemme get 2$ on pump 2
I'm coming through
[Hook]
2$ started off wit 2$
That's dead broke
2$ started off wit 2$
That's not eating
2$ started off wit 2$
Come on mane
2$ started off wit 2$
Come on mane
That's not the wave
2$ started off wit 2$
That's dead broke
2$ started off wit 2$
That's not eating
2$ started off wit 2$
[Verse 2]
Two dollars, started off with two dollars
Did true's on the humble
That's two dollars
Talkin bout old money I knew dollars
I blew hunned's before color change
That's blue dollars
Forget two dollars, ima need mo' dollars mo buck mo digits, need two commas
Two dollar & two dollar that's four dollars I ate dollars
Who said slim ain't got weight problems
It's all facts if ima rapping it
Keep it cool, never spit how family was wrapping it
I don't feel you, you know that one thing, you lackin it
Since when all y'all so called was trappin
Why y'all think I snap when y'all rappin
I move round with the book ah I'm stackin
If I'm backpack well I got
Verses of crack in it crack and sniff
Get a whiff of the realness we killed this
2$ started off wit 2$
That's not the wave
2$ started off wit 2$
That's dead broke
2$ started off wit 2$
That's not eating
2$ started off wit 2$
2$ I woke up wit 2$
[Verse 1]
I wanna smoke a nick I'm short a few dollars
I asked him for a tick but he need true dollars
You know he sayin no if you knew about him
Niggas tight on bread it's like I'm hugging loaves
And all a nigga want to do is fucking smoke
I know I'm worth at least a million cnotes
Fire tracks I keep those plus I know people
2$ means I need some new dollars
I used to want a gig but the. My dreams followed
Go hard or go home that's the theme and motto
And go get it cuz it's yours and bitch believe the motto
I know I'll only get it if I come to you
So lemme get 2$ on pump 2
I'm coming through
[Hook]
2$ started off wit 2$
That's dead broke
2$ started off wit 2$
That's not eating
2$ started off wit 2$
Come on mane
2$ started off wit 2$
Come on mane
That's not the wave
2$ started off wit 2$
That's dead broke
2$ started off wit 2$
That's not eating
2$ started off wit 2$
[Verse 2]
Two dollars, started off with two dollars
Did true's on the humble
That's two dollars
Talkin bout old money I knew dollars
I blew hunned's before color change
That's blue dollars
Forget two dollars, ima need mo' dollars mo buck mo digits, need two commas
Two dollar & two dollar that's four dollars I ate dollars
Who said slim ain't got weight problems
It's all facts if ima rapping it
Keep it cool, never spit how family was wrapping it
I don't feel you, you know that one thing, you lackin it
Since when all y'all so called was trappin
Why y'all think I snap when y'all rappin
I move round with the book ah I'm stackin
If I'm backpack well I got
Verses of crack in it crack and sniff
Get a whiff of the realness we killed this
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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