Joe Budden - Playing Our Part lyrics

rate me

(Intro)

Mic, mic, mic

Yeah we good now

Turn the vocals down a lil bit, just a lil bit

I want it loud

(Verse)

Here's my moment of clarity

I've been misleading ya all, giving ya half of me

I've been blazing a trail and leaving casualties

I've diagnosed myself, I think it's apathy

So letting go became easy, grabbing ahold, that's the hardest

I know our expiration date soon as we start it

Ya come around and ya feel safe while you're a target

Ya feeling like I let ya inside, while I'm guarded

It's genius when arrogance seems like it's modest

Look past the insanity, glance at the logic

Appears optional, all of it is stipulated

Watch and learn how emotions get manipulated

Now ya in dire need of help

Ya the victim, made to think ya did it to yoself

Speaking of, rest in peace Sandra Bland

I'm believing everythin' that wasn't on that cam

But back to ya, beauty, let me address our lil' movement

Ya in therapy but I don't see the improvement

Oh whateva's been made now days is ruined

So every few months I ponder what the fuck are we doing

Let me watch my words again

Ya easily got one of the best pussies that I've eva been inserted in

Ya real kind, real sweet, real nurturing

Yet every time we link back up, ya just get hurt again

Ya put all men in a box, I ain't one of 'em

Funny how ya got all the answers and none of 'em

Ya only dated three men so I'm scared of ya

Cos' with no point of reference, what the fuck are ya comparing to?

Ya good one minute, psycho the next

No longer letting it ride, too much Jekyll and Hyde

Then ya subtweet some weeks, busy setting yo pride

I'm grown, don't really need that sort of mess in my life

But wait, ya of age, ya old too

I control my emotions, yours control ya

Ya bright enough to know when ya get impulsive

Fo' me, that's repulsive, how do ya not know this?

And then we go our separate ways

Just to link back on better days

Though I know it's short term and ya neva stay

Ya always a sucker fo' that text that say

(Pre-Hook)

'Yo what up? Are ya good?

Hit me up wheneva ya in the hood'

Then we fuck, and it's fine

Then ya get all this bullshit on yo mind

I'm waiting fo' ya to talk, but ya won't

Then ya wait fo' me to react but I don't

Then ya go, and I watch

We know how this movie go, but we watch

(Hook)

Cuz we just playing our parts

You're watching how I perform and it's breaking yo heart

Ya home alone backtrackin', replaying the start

Ya realize this whole script you've been playing a mark

That ain't stop ya from taking a part

I guess we're both just playing our parts

(Verse 2)

Yeah, and so the pussy ain't enough now

They keep thinking it should be enough, how?

Fuck sex, baby, later fo' that

This mind game I'm playing is a greater climax

Not a franchise player, I can't pay ya the max

I can't say it to ya so I just say it in raps

I got a rep that I made all by myself

One I hate all by myself

That comes from decisions created all by myself

I can't shake it all by myself

See I grew up in the spotlight, where yo every move is eyed

The truth becomes lies when you're that scrutinized

No mentor ship, I was unsupervised

Had to learn on my own every rule to survive

Still I manned up in caught those wrongs

Go ahead and judge Joe, I got my court clothes on

Y'all see the front, behind the scenes more goes on

Check my back catalog, it's in all those songs, forreal

So I can be at peace foreva

I left the puzzle right there, nigga, piece it together

But back to ya, beauty, small waist, fat booty

It's cool fo' the moment but don't permanently move me

They come through tossing me ass like it's their duty

But who I was ain't who I am, I say it truly

Yeah I am shooting 'em down without the Uzi

Unlike them niggas ya know, don't try and group me

Watched myself on TV, was unruly

How the fuck they cast me wrong in my own movie?

They say ya are what ya attract

Here I am, screaming, "Fuck all that"

Then I'm forced to believe I attract and adore

Bunch of unstable broads with character flaws

With plenty luggage, I greet 'em with their bags at the door

If that's true then it's some shit I'd rather ignore

Cos' check it, whateva helps ya get by

So when they hit me, I always reply

(Pre-Hook)

(Hook)

(Verse 3)

Just where I'm at lately

Look at the monster this industry done made me

Shit I loved the most, I let it jade me

Crying out fo' help, somebody save me

But I can't let 'em know all that

They take it as weakness when ya show all that

So I just live in my mind till this hoe call back

Every time I'm knocked down ya see Joe crawl back, forreal

Nowadays they all the same

Enhanced body parts, smaller brains

They don't get a hi in fact

Mums the word, baby girl, it's now quiet fo' that, forreal

If ya got nothing to offer

Sorry Mrs. Jackson, gotta off ya

But as long as ya leave 'em alone

It's when they send that same text to the phone

(Outro)

They always be like, 'what's up? Are ya good?

Hit me up wheneva ya in the hood'

Then we fuck, and it's fine

Then ya get all this bullshit on yo mind

I'm waiting fo' ya to talk, but ya won't

Ya wait fo' me to react but I don't

Then ya go, and I watch

We know how this movie go, but we watch

Cos' we just playing our parts

I guess we're both just playing our parts

I play mine well, betta than ya and it go, baby, baby!