Castle Walls

[Christina Aguilera]

Everyone thinks that I have it all

But it's so empty living behind these castle walls, these castle walls

If I should tumble, if I should fall

Would anyone hear me screaming behind these castle walls?

There's no one here at all, behind these castle walls

[T.I.]

Observing the estate through the gate from the outside looking in

Bet you think I got it made, better look again

I got a butler, got a maid, and a mansion

The belief is that I'm living out a millionaire's fantasy

With Phantoms e Ferrari's in the driveway

But you see the pain and the change of the sane man's sanity

Your vision jaded by the Grammy's on the mantelpiece

Just switch your camera lenses you would see the agony

Apparently it's damaging the man you see before you

On the canvas he may seem alright but all the disadvantages

His family encounters overshadows his extravagance

Walk in my lines while I dare you with a stare at you

While it surelly seem like the King's life ain't glamorous

As seen through the eyes of untrained amateurs

Because the cameras doesn't see beyond the walls of the smiles

Only counts until it falls in the pile

[Christina Aguilera]

Everyone thinks that I have it all

But it's so empty living behind these castle walls (these castle walls)

If I should tumble, if I should fall

Would anyone hear me screaming behind these castle walls?

There's no one here at all, behind these castle walls

[T.I.]

Honestly to me, I think I'd lose every benefit of all that I've accomplished

If my key is never with it, shit me knowing this

Why should the verses I have laid

Be more important to me than the persons I have raised?

I guess I'm saying that to say that oppotunity

But they just don't equate to all the time they take away

From the kids all the shit I did right is a mistake

If Deyjah end up a stripper and Major slinging Yay

How could I ever consider myself a great

If Messiah ain't paied and Nique'Nique ain't straight

Would your favorite song about the whips, money and shit

Be relevant If you found out the money wasn't real, nope

So me being the GOAT shouldn't mean

More to me than see it to a king though

From a bad ass kid to a man with some dough

Otherwise I may well have stayed poor

So while they stay focused on me beefing with Flip,

Shawty Low, with Gucci or Ludacris

Or if I'm fucking with a hoe,

Did I snitch when I got arrested or will I die over nonsense

Internally I'm dealing with this conflict

So excuse me if I don't get the chance to kiss the hand

Or slap me in the face, hey, I'm just the man

If they saying I ain't the best in making hit records

It's 'cause this is my life, this ain't just rapping

Didn't think it all it was that deep, did ya dawg

See you can't see the castle through the walls till it falls

Didn't think it all it was that deep, did ya dawg

See you can't see the castle through the walls till it falls

[Christina Aguilera]

Everyone thinks that I have it all

But it's so empty living behind these castle walls (these castle walls)

If I should tumble, if I should fall

Would anyone hear me screaming behind these castle walls?

There's no one here at all, behind these castle walls

Nobody knows I'm all alone

Living in this castle made of stone

They say that money is freedom but I feel trapped inside it all

And while I sit so high up on a throne

I wonder how I can feel this low

On top of the world it's beautiful

But there's no place to fall

[T.I.]

For the record ay, I give a damn if I never said shit again

My career was meant for me to come and tell it

Honest interpretation of how affected I'm faced

With matters most rappers used to keep locked away in the basement

The day that I walk away I ain't saying that I'm amazing

Downplaying the way I keep fellas from catching cases

Won't take into consideration how much it mean what I'm saying

And when I say what I mean even when I'm surrounded by the fakers

From one of the greatest centers, blessed with most of God's graces

Who made his way amongst the greatest from the grimiest places

So next time you rating royalty

I'm always being given to recordings than the level of your loyalty

(Hmm)

Obviously you've been ignoring me

Who else ya seen make it through the storm, unharmed disjointed

While all the critics was looking for Prince charming

Disregarded the king of the south raised doubt

Even tho he made a castle out of what used to be a house

He did shit that all your favorite rappers only rap about

But most of ya'll don't see the castle through the walls

And the smiles till it fall in piles so while

[Christina Aguilera]

Everyone thinks that I have it all

But it's so empty living behind these castle walls

(These castle walls, yeah yeah, yeah yeah)

If I should tumble (If I should tumble), if I should fall

Would anyone hear me screaming behind these castle walls?

There's no one here at all, behind these castle walls