REEF THE LOST CAUZE - How You Lose Your Mind lyrics

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First you drop out of school, then you get yourself a job

But it doesn't pay enough, so then you move back in with mom

Now you spend all of your time just writin' rhymes and gettin' high

Welcome to this life of mine. This is how you lose your mind

Hello, boys and girls it's uncle Reef

I'm back to tell you a brand new tale

About how you can try in life

But in the end you'll always fail

I'm in jail, well not really

Just seems that I've been cursed

You see children

I am living with the lady who game me birth

Could be worse ummm...

No, not really, you see kids I am grown

I was out on my own

Now I'm living back at home

Where'd I go wrong?

How I got here that's a story within itself

Got a little time I'll drop this rhyme

Maybe you could offer some help

First you drop out of school, then you get yourself a job

But it doesn't pay enough, so then you move back in with mom

Now you spend all of your time just writin' rhymes and gettin' high

Welcome to this life of mine. This is how you lose your mind

This is...

So I'm in school right, got a cool new life

In the dorms blowin' orange and brew lights with two dikes

Smut-ass, cut class, just to puff ash

It was fun then, lookin' back I fucked up bad

Lost my scholarship

Ain't nothing in my wallet kid

But a condom and in the fridge is condiments

So my pride I swallowed it

Now I'd like you to listen

To the following conversation

Call mom, she ragin', said with me shes lost all patience

It's up to me to make the payments

On the student loans and no way in hell am I movin' home

I'd told her I'd get a job and shit, I don't think she was impressed

This is the life of a college drop out way before some Kanye West, nigga please

First you drop out of school then you get yourself a job

But it doesn't pay enough so then you move back in with mom

Now you spend all of your time just writin' rhymes and gettin' high

Welcome to this life of mine. This is how you lose your mind

This is...

Job to job, check to check

Crib to crib, livin' neck to neck

With roommates never payin' rent by the due date

In my mouth no food taste, just toothpaste

It was one or the other

I was a step away from being a bum in the gutter

But I'm the son of my mother

She sees my tryin', rib startin' to show she sees me dyin'

Makes me and offer I can't refuse

At home I can move, til I'm back on my shoes

On my feet rather, full circle in my life without a complete chapter

It's kind of hard with everybody in the streets laughing

Cause went back in the womb from the tomb

Presume the unpredictabul, roomin' at home, peep the visual

At least I got new material, ma' we ain't got no more cereal

What you mean we ain't got no more cereal?

Ma', we ain't got no more cereal, ma'.

Well get yo ass to the store and get you cereal, your grown!

God damn it!

See at first I was hesitant about my new residence

I though I'd regret it

But it turned out a blessing in disguse but I

Still need a setitive

To deal with the recklessness of livin' with my relatives

It's not so bad but my credit is that level and

Feels like a second chance id never get it in my head forever damn

Tryin' to guess my days like the weatherman, whatever man

I'd never stand on my own again, have my own home again

Uncle skip and my declone the ham

I live in my little sisters old bedroom

Bang my head on the ceiling everytime my head move

It's the best move

No girls gonna respect you

When you rest in the nest dude

I should just move, but I'm not stable enough

I'm not able and there's food on the table, free cable and stuff

I'm not payin for stuff, I'm not payin for stuff