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Lonely at the Top

J. Cole

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Lonely at the Top

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Bah-bah-bah, buh-bah-bum-bahBuh-buh-buh, bum-bahBah-di-ah-di-ahBah-bah-bah, buh-bah-bum-bahBuh-buh-buh, bum-bahBah-di-ah-di-ahYeah, listen, I want to help my favoritesTo find that spark againSomewhere deep in their hearts againMan, chasin' them is how I made itI felt this for a while, but couldn't frame itIn the proper rhythmsIt seems like they stoppedJust like givin' a fuck and I fuckin' hate it'Cause where you supposedTo look on days when you feel unmotivated?When all your heroes either disappeared or sound so deflatedThe younger generation hellify, no, I won't debatе itBut they want what I got right nowAnd one day they gon' obtain itStill I find it hard to rеplicate what I'm longin' latelyThat childish admiration like backWhen I had posters hangin'I do my best with this first, but shitMaybe there's no explainin'Just ventin', it's no complainin', but listen to meFor years, I felt like an only childWith no one to play withThe older kids I watched run up the slidesThe wrong way or hang upside down from monkey barsWhile I was lookin' from afarJust hopin' for that future dayWhen I'd be able to do the same shit, but now that day's hitMomma done let me come outsideBut now them slides are vacantThe big boys done skatedThey pockets got too grownFor some it seems that love is goneAnd now they pass the timeWith expensive glasses of wine at locationsWith the finest accommodationsAnd I ain't hatin', just more so thinkin'About complacence and the realizationThat one day that's what my fate isTheir greatest hits fill up my playlistNot so much their latest, and I fuckin' hate itFor selfish reasons I think I could help themReignite the flame and fall in love with this againIf they could trust in young JermaineWe'd do our drills, we'd shake the rustWe'd blow the dust off of the pain and go shake up the gameAnd maybe then I'd have someone I want to be againBut even as I write that thought, I don't believe it, dang'Cause maybe it wasn't even themIt's really me that changedMaybe it wasn't even them, it's really me that changedHmm, shitI never understood the phrase "It's lonely at the top"Until I scaled that mountain all the way up 'til it stoppedAnd if you're ever blessed enough to make it to this spotYou'll see the ones you looked up toUnfortunately, had to dropI never understood the phrase "It's lonely at the top"Until I scaled that mountain all the way up 'til it stoppedAnd if you're ever blessed enough to make it to this spotYou'll see the ones you looked up toUnfortunately, had to drop (Drop)
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