Castle Walls (feat. Christina Aguilera)

[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 would think i got it made,

Better look again

I got buttler, got a maid, and a mansion

The belief is that i'm living

Out a millionaires fantasy

With pantoms and ferrari's in the driveway

But you see the pain and

The change of the same man's

Your vision jaded by the grammy's

On the mantelpiece

Just switch your camera lenses

You would see the agony

Apparantly it's damaging

The man you see before you

On the canvas he may seem

Alright but all the disadvantages his family

Encounters overpowers his extravagance

Walk in my ? i dare you

While it really seem like

The kings life aint glamourous

As seen through the eyes of untrained amateurs

Because the camera's don'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 any one 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 ooportunity

But they just don't equate

To all the time they take away

From the kids all the sh-t 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 paid and nique nique ain't straight

Would your favourite 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 man with some dough

Otherwise i may well have stayed poor

So while they stay focused

On me beefin with flip,

Shawty low, gucci or ludacris

Or if i'm f-cking with a hoe

Did i snitch when i got arrested or will i die over nonesense

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,

Ay i'm just the man

If they saying i ain't the best

At making hit records

It's cause this my life these ain't just rapping

Shit, you think of that deep, did ya dawg

See you can't see the castle

Through the walls till it falls

Bitch ain't thinking with the deep, did ya dog

Cause 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 any one 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 sh-t 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

I ain't saying that i'm amazing

Down playing 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 sorrounded 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,

Obvious 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 though he made a castle out

Of used to be a house

He did shit that all your

Favourites rappers only rap about

But most of y'all don't see

The castle through the walls

And the smiles till it falls 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)

If i should tumble if i should fall

Would any one hear me screaming

Behind these castle walls

There's no-one here at all,

Behind these castle walls