Lyrics

[Intro] Yeah, hey The bird with no wings Yeah [Verse 1] I wish you would've let me fly ma Instead of livin' like a bird that didn't know he had wings But still grateful I'm alive ma Ain't no blueprint on being a perfect parent You gave what you could provide ma Took you to therapy Had tears down my eyes ma Had pnemonia as a baby, almost died ma Felt every second of it How time flies Say I'm flawed as fuck But the lord is who I'm designed by Why, I never knew that I could soar You couldn't heal scars I made with Aquaphor Kept it a buck to see lil' change like dollar store Feet planted whenever we meet like omnivores I face challenges, fuck it get it over with I do it now so my son don't gotta go through it He just a baby so before he even notices He wouldn't know that there was a bare present if he never seen me pokin' it The hardest thing that I had to battle was on the ship The stuff that killed me inside didn't leave the condolences I don't bother to ask where the Ibuprofen is Yeah, look So many tears shower for seventy years Still have enough to build a water park anywhere I wish I knew I was born to fly in the air I had the wings but I barely was aware [Chorus] I was livin' like a dove but was never seen above How I stay inside the nest Never let my wings stretch Don't resemble Blue Jays so the sky too late He was a bird with no wings made his life a whole scene I was livin' like a dove but was never seen above How I stay inside the nest Never let my wings stretch Don't resemble Blue Jays so the sky too late He was a bird with no wings [Verse 2] The childhood me infected the manhood me Ain't the man I wanna be but I'm a damn good me Still tryna find me, he not answering me My son wanna be me but I still can't turn me I'm scared of growing pains though So I just settle in the same old, same old Which one if y'all got the Devil on payroll Finna pour out my pain in this clay mold How I turn to somethin' pretty, where you make those? I don't know how it feel to drive on a paved road A clear mental so refreshing while the page load The old me ain't coming out like stained clothes Yeah, heh Speakin' of clothes, don't say that I'm weaker 'den 'em Problems with commitment cause dad always leavin' women No matter hard I try I ain't wanna repeat the system Its shirts I can't wear no more 'cause I cheated in 'em Single parent home that laid the way I was grown All the sticks and stones avoided my funny bone I never realized problems in which I was raised 'til I started raising my own Let that sink in I wish my mama would've let a nigga fly Can't see his full potential if you never let him try I wish my mama would've let a nigga fly There's so much gravity I should've been defied Yeah [Chorus] I was livin' like a dove but was never seen above How I stay inside the nest Never let my wings stretch Don't resemble Blue Jays so the sky too late He was a bird with no wings made his life a whole scene I was livin' like a dove but was never seen above How I stay inside the nest Never let my wings stretch Don't resemble Blue Jays so the sky too late He was a bird with no wings