Flashback (feat. Miguel & St. Beauty)

[Deante’ Hitchcock]

Bad bitch, wild shit

Just wake up and boom bap

Just fucked up

Aight

Yeah-yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah

Ayy, ooh, yeah

Flashbacks to that laundrymat with my momma

I was young and wildin' out, unaware of the coming karma

They say the first child should pay for the sins of the father

So I bought 'em out tomorrow and said fuck it

Look, uh

Tell nick I'm sorry, I had to do what I couldn't take

If I don't kill 'em, I'm sorry shawty, we ain't gon' make it

Girl I done seen my lowest lows, I mean low as the basement

Tryna reflect without usin' a mirror 'cause I'm too scared to face it

What am I chasin' and will it fulfill me once I catch it?

I need some straightforward answers 'cause I been livin' backwards

Can't feel the pastor when he talk about upcomin' rapture

Preachin' money's the root of all evil but ask for money after

So comin' up we ain't have it to give but we still gave it

The church was makin' a killin' of our lil' savings

But you can't put a price on faith, that's how my momma phrased it

But mom if this house of the lord, then how can we not appraise it?

I was young and confused, with nothin' to lose

Better to be human than God, word to langston hughes

Ironic when your brain start to spark, they try and defuse

But my nigga the only choice that we have in life is to choose, so I'm choosin'

I got a homegirl convinced that everything we see is tricks and this life is just an illusion

Some days I entertain it, I know that thinkin' is dangerous

Just be feelin' like it's so much more, it's hard to explain it

But I do believe in God in this [?] but I know the evil when I'm strayin' far away from my path

There's a reason that you have it

Word to my boy from tde, that I met in them sessions

This is the revenge of the dreamer

I seen a rose grow from out of that concrete, yeah right there, up my block

Right on the corner where devonte got shot

And then it hit me

One day eventually things'll change and maybe somethin' beautiful can rise and thrive from all that pain, so rip

[Miguel, St. Beauty & Both]

I'm sure as a sigil

That I believe

It's hard to believe in anything

With all that I've been through

All that I've seen

Can't just believe in anything

Much to my surprise

I'm old enough to know

I can't do anything on my own

So, I believe in God

I'm grown enough to know

I'm trying every day to hold on (hold on)

[Miguel]

No one

Ever gonna do it for you (quite like)

Quite like you

(Quite like) quite like you

No one

Ever gonna do it for you (quite like)

Quite like you

(Quite like) quite like you

That's why it's hard to put my faith in anyone else

So I don't put my faith in nobody else

Though I know that we all need some help

Me too

Brr

Brr

Is any of that true, yeah

Uh

Ayy, uh, ayy

[Deante' Hitchcock]

I know I ain't been all that you expect from me (ayy)

Still talkin' to God

I been so lost, so low, I need you desperately

Still talkin' to God

I swear, I heard them say the truth will set you free

Still talkin' to God

If there's one thing I learned, I can't be nothin' else but me

Still talkin' to God