(WriteNow)
I've been tryin' not to go off the deep end
Give me a reason (Uh)
I've been tryin' not to—

In the deep end with the deceased

Where the slaves jumped in the coral reef

All I see's wreaths for over four hundred

I ain't a failure, I'm a forerunner (Yeah)

Keep killin' us, we goin' Killmonger (Yeah)

That's a born sinner

Only time I ever go female J. Cole on it

Everything I hear got bass on it (Yeah)

Strings attached, Dre, Chronic

Rat-a-tat-tat, bullеts in our back

Do you love Black or just listen to it?

Are you for thе movement or only music?

Could an OnlyFan make a bad cop

Strip his badge off then get dropped off

At the cell block?

Spend twenty-five or a lifelong, that's a tick-tock

On my wristwatch, Timex

I remember that time that X talked

By any means, must protect y'all

By any means, we gotta change laws

Families, mothers, brothers, sisters

Children, fathers, kin, woo

Talk to God, pray that we don't go off the deep end, ah



I've been tryin' not to go off the deep end

Give me a reason

I've been tryin' not to go off the deep end

Give me a reason

I've been tryin' not to—



Yeah, I might go crazy

I might go MJ back in the 80s

Back in the 90s, I might go off

Well, they better not try me, it might get dicey

I ain't tryna go back to the old me (Nah)

I'm tryna hang on like my mama told me

Sometimes legs get weak and your arms give out

And you sink to the bottom slowly (Sink to the bottom slow)

A grown man wishing that somebody hold me (Hold)

Never knew my daddy, so nobody showed me

Taught me how to walk through the storm when your heart feel heavy

And it's hard and you're feeling lonely

But lowkey, high priest got the keys to the kingdom

High key low enough to bring 'em

And I need all of what He's bringing

I might go off the deep end, I just need another reason, yeah



Uh, yeah, I've been doin' better than I was before (Woo)

I walk with a limp 'cause I've been wrestlin' with the Holy Ghost (Ghost)

Deep end of this pit, but still somehow I keep on floating on

Thought I lost my grip, but God reminded me He's holding on



I've been tryin' not to go off the deep end

Give me a reason

I've been tryin' not to go off the deep end

Give me a reason

I've been tryin' not to—