When You're Gone (feat. Lil Wayne)

Shoutout Dakari

Shoutout Ed, shoutout Jessie, shoutout The Game

It's like we always do it this time

Thinkin' to myself like, yeah, uh

Starin' at a blank canvas

Thinkin' 'bout what should I write, should I plan this?

Reminiscin' 18, a freshman on campus

With dreams so big, nobody understands us

Till they came true, started goin' bananas

Somewhere along the road, I got as lost as Atlantis

Been there since Vegas, drinkin' under cabanas

And medicine for breakups, take the pills life hand us

No sleep, I been up for a couple of days

Can't nobody talk to him, been stuck in my ways

They say: It's unsustainable, but fuck it, it pays

Results and results, keep runnin' them plays

I see the writing's on the wall, that shit's getting clear

My new girl says she love me, but I don't even hear her

I can't even drive a Jag', that shit is inferior

Only time I see a threat, when (yeah) I look in the mirror

They only love you (ay) when you gone

It don't matter where you goin', (uh) yuh (you know)

But I did it on my own

So I'd rather be alone, yeah (I'd rather be alone)

Yeah, they only love you when you're gone

It don't matter where you goin' (yeah, uh)

Well, I got it on my own, so I'd rather die alone (yeah)

Yeah, the greatest gift is knowledge itself

They fail to talk about my journey when mentionin' wealth

I made it here all by my lonely, no askin' for help

What if my debut never dropped and got kept up on a shelf?

Uh, from the soil, grew it slowly

All black, leather, slicked back, they want the old G

Things are happenin' again, that's what they told me

I came home, full circle, not as an OG

Blink my eyes, to my surprise, I'm in Tokyo

Twenty thousand in the crowd singin' every quote

Blink again and they kickin' me outta Canada

I swear you wouldn't have the stomach or the stamina

Yeah, my shoulders carry over twenty tons

Biggie said it's more problems when the money comes

My songs speak to the greats, yeah the one-of-ones

I'ma go out as a legend when it's said and done

They only love you when you gone

It don't matter where you goin' (where you go, uh) yuh

But I did it on my own (on my own)

So I'd rather be alone, yeah (I'd rather be alone)

Yeah, they only love you when you're gone (yeah)

It don't matter where you goin', yeah

Well, I got it on my own, so I'd rather die alone

Who put this shit together? I put this shit together

I'ma wear all my chains like some Olympic medals

They think it's all a game, so I'm thinkin' winnin' record

They thinkin' Kurt Cobain, but I'm thinkin' living legend

I'm straight to the Hall of Fame from the hallways of the ghetto

It's fuck the world, fuck 12, since I was like 10-11

I built the whole fuckin' mountain, I started out with a pebble

That money talk, that's a convo

If you broke then that's a lecture

I does me, 'cause only God can judge me

Nigga, trust me, only I can trust me

Yeah, it's just me, and the skies above me

But I dug deep, now close your eyes and come see

Will they love me when I'm gone? Will they know me?

Do they love me when I'm home or when I'm OT?

I'm here I don't know how long before I won't be

So when I'm gone, how long will they want me? (Yeah)

They only love you when you gone

It don't matter where you goin', yeah (matter where you goin')

But I did it on my own

So I'd rather be alone, yeah (alone, yeah)

Yeah, they only love you when you're gone (Wayne, I appreciate you more than you'll ever understand)

It don't matter where you goin', yeah (you know, a hero of mine)

Well, I got it on my own, so I'd rather die alone (uh)

Never finished, tryna search for more

Fuck a hit, this shit is what I do it for

So these bars will always be apart of me

Right now, I feel like track two on Tha Carter III

Uh, like it's 2008 NOLA

This shit was bubblin' and I don't even drink soda

The whole industry was givin' me a cold shoulder

And now my record label needs me to make quota

Yeah, that's all facts and every bar is real

In twenty years, pray to God I'm makin' art still

I'm lettin' everything go like a yard sale

'Cause these songs'll beat longer than my heart will