They Told Me...

And they told me,

go on little homie,

continue down your road 'n,

they'll be no such thing as "most" then.

Cuz you'll get it "all" little homie,

cuz thats what they told me.

Ugh... and they told me,

a lot of bullshit's what they told me.

You a... not even mid-class kid who,

is stuck up in a rich school,

going where every kid should,

but inside every kid would,

immediately throw it up like boxing gloves,

all because he got his anxiety pushed to shove,

brainwashed that he's in the place to be,

and an all boy's school will reduce teen pregnancy,

take it off cuz these kids lost their social ability,

all they know's what they were told not to do, who not to be.

But they're what's best to these kids today,

yet they don't know the test and quiz to take,

life's mistakes are the best to take away,

and learn how to be the bigger man 'n not fail again.

They got these teachers dumbing them down,

and that's how the government wants 'em now.

 

[Hook]

And they told me, ugh, put your faith in me,

give me your right hand and we'll take ya all the way...

hopefully.

And they told me, ugh, put your faith in me,

give me your right hand and we'll take ya all the way...

hopefully.

 

That's what they all told me,

before they put that knife through me,

junior year I had hella problems with school,

my future's here, where the hell's your promises fool,

I got all these teachers on my ass,

and no matter what I do, they just won't let me pass.

One grades like an asshole,

he checked my work before class would go,

every time he said I had it in the hole,

that I had nothing to finish at home.

But when finals came around,

papers in red ink about to drown,

aw what the hell,

we all in a conference now,

at the same time my math went down,

aw this is hell.

Now this one just didn't want to help not to fail you,

made her office hours where we're not available.

And here comes Mardi Gras, parades and stress free,

my beer was haunted, I fainted 'n now with less teeth,

so there goes the M.I.C. and all of my dreams

and I gotta answer to friends I don't wanna see.

 

[Hook]

Cuz they told me, ugh, put your faith in me,

give me your right hand and we'll take ya all the way...

hopefully.

And they told me, ugh, put your faith in me,

give me your right hand and we'll take ya all the way...

hopefully.

 

And they told me,

like if they were talking to the old me,

like if they were worried about me,

thinking I lost a fight cuz that's not me.

All they want is my self-esteem down,

like it isn't already low key now.

Now everyone looks like Loki now, mischief up their sleeve,

chose my friends wisely so he's out, this beef's stacking heat,

everyone knows but they all don't understand,

I just switched cliques, lost my friends to empty cans,

and even before them, I was trying to leave that style,

and its funny how those friends three-sixty'ed to that now.

Made me start to think that was just who I am,

'til I realized who had the higher hand,

instead of liquor and weed I chose my fam,

and instead of impressing those I don't need at all,

I built friends and family worth keeping around.

Worth keeping around, thats what I'm about,

til we all leave town, and we all logout.

Its only a sad story depending who's on scene,

and it aint no tragedy, til your passed the screen.

 

[Hook]

Then they told me, ugh, put your faith in me,

give me your right hand and we'll take ya all the way...

hopefully.

And they told me, ugh, put your faith in me,

give me your right hand and we'll take ya all the way...

hopefully.

 

(OUTRO)

And they told me... (x3)

'lot a bullshit's what they told me (acapella)