Me And Ms. Pain (feat. Punch)

(Chorus)

The Pain Is Gone!

(Ab-Soul)(Chorus)

Nah that bitch never leaves

Got me waking up in cold sweats, so I never sleep

Properly, I'm no Socrates but my philosophy is

She gone follow me as long as I live

(Ab-Soul)

A minute ago, I was riding bicycles

And I can buy you Now & Laters with 5 nickels

When it was washing dishes and homework, cable and bullshit

I hit the block and never left

It was exciting watching life bring light to what I'm writing about like

A lamp in a cave, while I'm trapped in this maze

But Frankie Beverly wouldn't walk in my all-stars for a day

I watched kids play and think ignorance is bliss

Then I watched Kid-N-Play on House Party

And wished I was them

See you can say I'm brainwashed

Cause I came from an era where niggas don't care about nothing

And you're judged by how much your J's cost

But me being the rebel I am, I never gave a damn

Leave it to Beaver and the rest of you suckas

I'm complex like the magazine say I'm abstract

Like a trigonometry quiz and science lab rats

If I wasn't odd, you could see the pain in my eyes

I watched brothers kill brothers over system of legal tender

Deteriorating my loins with liquor looking for joy

I put my soul on a platter of joy

I do this for the regular people who out the ink route

Make it popular to be unpopular

Because if we all came together, ain't no stopping us

And it hurts me so, to think how they divided us

Like an island in the road

Just take control if you ain't know

And yo

Lock my body can't trap my mind

I got two decades of experience on my resume

Say I don't qualify and I'll call you a lie

I'm on a whole another plateau, you still tryna be fly

And that goes for the narrow minded who's ancestor was the pharaoh

He went from Number 1 to Zero

Let's Take it back

(Chorus)

The Pain is gone!

(Punch)

Nah she still on me

She stalking my innermost thoughts, I guess she want me

Because her primary fear is to die lonely

I got, no disdain for Ms. Pain

She leaves me love letters sealed with a kiss

Lipstick stains on the mirror

She helps me see things a little clearer

Couldn't experience joy if she wasn't near us

I remember throwing shots back til' I collapsed

Waking up hung over in the effort to give her the cold shoulder

It never worked

As soon as I sobered up, I couldn't avoid her tender touch

Like when Izakaya died

I couldn't look his mama in the eyes

Feeling like I contributed to his demise

Guilt stricken, heart victimized

Postpartum Syndrome, I'm blacking out

She's wishing it was me, she cried

Each tear was like a symphony orchestra

Beethoven over the organs, she snapping a tremendous proportion

Take this recording as the truth distorted

Through the eyes of a man who reaped the fruits of her courtship

And no fortune could ever overturn the misfortunes I absorbed in

The pain made me impure like foreskin, more that I can bargain

Fool, still I love her forever more

(Chorus)

The Pain is Gone!

(Ab-Soul)(Chorus)

Nah that bitch never leaves

Got me waking up in cold sweats, so I never sleep

Properly, I'm no Socrates, But my philosophy is

She gone follow me as long as I live

(Ab-Soul)

And even when I die, she's going to follow my kids