Since day 1 I said
Fuck the fame and everything it dealt
But the fame is really here just to facilitate the wealth
But the wealth attracts you haters like you mosquitoes to a well
And the waters getting deeper so I'm well set out to sail
Someone called my cell and left a voicemail
That said congratulations on the million record sales
As I'm flipping over furniture knocking shit off the shelf
I told myself I'll never get too deep
Not to take a breathe
But I'm sinking

And it's so hard to breathe, yeah
And even more so to sleep when no-one cares
It was all I can eat
But now I'm sinking, so deep,
I can't come up for air

Yeah I've seen the valley of the shadow of death
I've seen the mountains, the wild childhood
That's why I sing about it
I just try to move on and keep my peace about it
But come to think about it I can't even count the days
That I've spent, starving tryna find some decent housing
That's why I'm always smiling
But on this beat I seem so violent
So ask me 'bout the music scene
And what the fuck I think about it
Time flies, I guess thats why I'm bugging
Just yesterday I was rapping with my brother and my cousin
If you had the stove or toaster on
You couldn't use the oven
We knew that we were struggling, we just acted like we wasn't
It's either make it rapping, if not that than hustlin'
So all I see is magazine covers in this game
You either surface or you plummet
It's a thin line
And I'm just tryna keep my head above it
Damn!

And it's so hard to breathe, yeh-yeah
And even more so to sleep when no-one cares
It was all I can eat
But now I'm sinking, so deep,
I can't come up for air

Air, I-i-I
I sink away, cause I sink away
I sink away
I sink away, I sink away
Get carried away, get carried away

And it's so hard to breathe, yeh-yeah
And even more so to sleep when no-one cares
It was all I can eat
But now I'm sinking, so deep...

Damn, it's never in the plans
But hey it's a long way than beating pots and pans
Damn, it's never in the plans
But hey it's a long way than beating pots and pans

Damn, it's never in the plans
But hey it's a long way than beating pots and pans
Damn, it's never in the plans
But hey it's a long way than beating pots and pans

But now I'm sinking, so deep,
I can't come up for air, air