window pain

J. Cole

One night
When me and my mom was about to go to bed
All the doors was locked
Then when I had fell asleep
My mom had heard three gun shots
It was to my cousin, his name was Rod
The one that came to pick me up
He had been shot right through the face, right in the neck
And he got shot right in the stomach

I put my hand to the sky, I sing
Grateful for the blessings you bring
Thank you for the ones I love
Forgive me for the times I was
Down and confused, I know
What I reap is what I will sow
Once again I find myself
Back with you from my hell
All I ever wanted was to hear them bitches holler back
Get some money plus respect and now look, I got all of that
All I wanna do is see my granny on the other side
All I wanna do is kill the man that made my momma cry
All I wanna do is touch a platinum plaque and celebrate
All I wanna do is keep my niggas out the yellow tape
All I wanna do is see my granny on the other side
All I wanna do is kill the man that made my momma cry

Right now I'm starin' out the window
of my Range and contemplating, am I sane?
Have I sacrificed for fame?
My occupation's on my brain
Thought that I could change it all
if I had change
But the niggas that I came up
with way back is still the same
I be tryna give 'em game like Santa did
when Christmas came
They be listenin' but it's clear to me
they did not hear a thing
It go in one ear and out the other
like a bullet out the muzzle of a pistol
shot by brothers
standin' point-blank range
Niggas bang in the Ville
I always thought that shit was strange
How you claim blood or cuz
when that was just a La thing?
I don't mean no disrespect towards your set
no, I'm just sayin'
That it seem like for acceptance
niggas will do anything
Niggas will rep any gang
niggas will bust any head
Niggas will risk everything
point him out and then he dead
Shootin' up where his granny live
"blaow, blaow! ", his granny duck
He don't give a fuck, he's on Henny
and Xanny'd up
Blowin' Tammy up, bitch
when you gon' give them panties up?
He gon' plant a seed, but best believe
he ain't man enough
Just because yo' dick can spray semen
it don't mean that you ready
to let go of yo' childish ways
The results are deadly
Because that child will suffer
and that's what can most affect me
The little girl I met this past summer said
"Don't forget me"
I won't forget you, how could I
with all you went through?
A bullet hit yo' cousin in Temple
while he was with you
And while you was talkin', I was tearin' up
where's the tissue?
If you was my sister then I would kiss you
and tell you that I'm sorry
for the pain you had to live through
I know I'm blessed because yo' stress
is realer than anything I done been through

I put my hand to the sky, I sing
Grateful for the blessings you bring
Thank you for the ones I love
Forgive me for the times I was
Down and confused, I know
What I reap is what I will sow
Once again I find myself
Back with you from my hell
All I ever wanted
was to hear them bitches holler back
Get some money plus respect and now look
I got all of that
All I wanna do is see my granny
on the other side
All I wanna do is kill the man
that made my momma cry
All I wanna do is touch a platinum plaque
and celebrate
All I wanna do is keep my niggas
out the yellow tape
All I wanna do is see my granny
on the other side
All I wanna do is kill the man
that made my momma cry

It's not that big
Well at least, um
God had saved him 'cause he still alive
So why do y'all think that bad stuff happen?
Like why can't the world just be all nice things?
Because God is tryna, um
Warn-warn us or teach us a lesson that we need
to learn
Or He's tryna warn us of
He's comin' back to, um, see us
and take us home and redo the world
He's comin' back to, um
have us be His children and for us
to see Him for the first time
so we can rejoice with Him and have our time
And after we do that
He's gonna restart the world
K. O. D
Choose wisely!