(Handwriting's on the wall) Yeah, it's on the I'ma keep drinking til toss me out this motherf*cker man
1] Excuse my tone of but today was just a bad day Label hit me about another single and said I ain't had Since Country Sh*t, hell they thought that was a regional record But thank God for Bun B and Ludacris because they had sh*t would take off and it did, guess I was too country to quit I make albums not hits, these rich don't know about this But cool, I'm back to that K.R.I.T. Wuz Here Pray to God this was for me, a king to be my time was near Maybe I'm rapping in vain, maybe this wasn't my Maybe I'm hurting myself, talking 'bout real life of the fame How can I change? I swear I think I'm wasting time On the phone with my pops like, "I just wanna save lives" I just want a deuce to ride the ones I was dealt My pride might be my downfall, but I ain't for help I wear my on my sleeve, don't run into me cuz it bleeds No disrespect to your craft, but I make my own the handwriting.
(The on the wall...) Man the do something to a n*gga man sometimes that sh*t... I can't hold back, you feel me?
2] First quarter got me like water with soda in it Drop my project in the pot it lock up like those in prison Gotta prove these people that don't see the vision nominations, number one on 106, hell I forgot to mention Two free albums minus support Fired my cuz I forgot what I was paying him for Drunk til I'm conscious, Johnny tell him put y'all on 3-way immediately Cuz I'm of being lied to and I'm waging war Then I'm back to Sippi-land and I'm quitting rap that bad cuz when I was poor, hell I was fat and happy Dealing with the critics and the comments got me Like my accent and my tone make it really hard to I was scarred but I was driven the politics came rappers and dropping albums, and watching em hang I pushed mine back with fear that they might just do me the Cuz I rebel I get shelved, but that's part of the game Hell, the handwriting...
(The on the wall...) Goddamn right on the wall I take this sh*t man This is my life, this all ever known This all I'll ever do and I to God I won't let take it from me
3] I did it for all of and all of yours Ten deep in the game I'm in I'm bound to lose if I'm in sin If I play to win will I make it I'm of feeling my heart Lord I just wanna scrape it out This the less traveled, sh*t I just gotta stay the route I hear the hate and all the betrayal I gotta phase it out another shot, better chase it down with a glass of Crown Put that on my tab, yeah I'm bad Cuz music's all I've ever known, sh*t, all I've had say something, tryna do something, tryna be better Ain't much time left, I gotta make do, I can't live that what makes me me? No smoke and no mirrors And I don't even wear Loc's, so can see me clear And you can say that I'm but tell me if I'm trippin' They stick their noses up and down on Mississippi Imagine how feel to know you work hard, and you educated And they you like you never made it The handwriting...
(The handwriting's on the wall, final curtain's to fall ain't no feelings left at all, the handwriting, on the wall)