Joe Budden - Role Reversal lyrics

rate me

[Joe Budden]

I be at the mall, walk up in the store

Glance up at the wall, pick out a few kicks

I need 11′s in these, matter of fact while you at it bring em’ in a size 6

I take shorty’s shoes off, like here try on these J’s make sure them shits fit

But in my head it gets thick, saying “Joey fall back, cuz thats not your kid”

I don’t know you lil n-gga, and plus I got a son of my own

But he’s at home and the ways hes being raised I don’t really condone

Naw, cuz his pops been gone, f-ck it ill explain it to him later when he’s grown

Old enough to have a phone

Asking why mommy hate me and he got the sneak to call me whenever he’s alone so

You wouldn’t know it but I got a soft spot for you

See, we would shared the same obstacles

Looking from the outside may seem like you neglect him

But when he slips up and calls me dad, I correct him

I protect him, when baby girl start venting about you I say “Respect him!”

And though it seems out of order, my own mistakes have turned me into your biggest supporter

Fast forward, you wouldn’t believe how I could love like mine what I didn’t conceive

Trying to help him reach sh-t what I never achieved

Am I doing it for him or is it my own greed cause see,

Me and my baby moms, we don’t do the conversations

Some cramped in the back, 2 bedroom shack

With 7 people living there just congregating

So when your child with me, I’m over compensated

I’m talking 8 bedrooms 7 baths

My son thinking, that’s the sh-t that only heaven has

Mines gotta keep it cool, your’s get to see the view

White marble around the end ground, heated pool

Mines got to go through the “why”

Sh-t, yours just got to walk outside

And the funny shit, the irony of it all and its just sad

Is You walked away and I’m the step dad

And then you get on Skype, saying “how you being, whats the word”

And I be on the background listening like “this mudaf-ckers he got some nerve”

He says “bye daddy, I love you”

I be wanting to snuff you but wouldn’t want him thinking less of you

But, hes perceptive and this sh-ts wild, he picks up on everything and hes just a child

So through all my resistance, I’m afraid this 2 year old can already see the difference

He see’s you don’t provide when you’re capable

Why we never fix things while were still able too?

So you’re annoyed, it kinda of hampers me

Get my boy, I always wanted a family

Just to greet when I get to the door

You gon have to take the L, I cant give you your’s

I’ll do all the work, you aint gotta be bothered

You can be his dad, ill be his father

I relate though, so I know it hurts

Got to be uncomfortable when the roles reversed