Million Dollar Dreams

Young nigga with a mind of his own He the man of the house but he 15 years old Gotta plan to get out but he ain't got nowhere to go Hanging with the old heads cause they tell him he can roll They don't see him as a man, they see him as lil bro He don't see them as his friends, he see them as big bros So whatever they tell him, he will it do for show He doing dirt he'd never do if his daddy was home But see his mama dating woman now, got her son tripping out He don’t even wanna come home with all his niggas now He embarrassed but it's buried in his soul When they wonder why he snapping all the time slamming doors Calling his sister a ho, she tell him listen lil bro Mama thinkin' cause she gay that you dont love her no more Say I never asked for the life she shows I hope I get a little piece around here when I go Hook Go to sleep having million dollar dreams That's something you can't take away from me Go to sleep havin million dollar dreams That's something you can't take away from me You can't take away from me Yeah, he gettin' older, mind gettin' bolder He divising them plans so his pockets get swoll up Gun holder, never need a holster He don't shoot for fun, he don't never need a poster Call his home boys up and tell them that it's over Them niggas done tried him for the last time, rolling On his enemies, for this winner cheese And they tell him need a gun but he just put it in his jeans Young soldier, about to grow up Knowing that he should throw the gun when the cops show up But he got pride shit, too much pride to take it up out his pocket And not pop shit, so he popped one, popped two And pop again whenever the cops came through Next thing you know he was sitting in the cell Eyes closed, saying this shit to himself Hook Go to sleep having million dollar dreams That's something you can't take away from me Go to sleep having million dollar dreams That's something you can't take away from me You can't take away from me When he was locked, the whole fam tried to talk to him Told people he was innocent and vouched for him They went to visit, he ain't even come out for them Never wrote them back, and they never got a call from him And after that they was still feeling sorry for them His mama was a wishful thinker so she bought a car for him She would cry every day pray to god She thinking it's her fault cause it was her gun that he pulled She can't blame herself, he don't blame himself He blames her for keeping him from his famous self He figured that he would be playing for the Bulls Vacation with the fam on a beach playing pool A year later his mama was at the store When a drunk man came and gunned her to the floor She died instantly like it was meant to be And home boy was getting out the pen 10 in a week Yeah, see we all got million dollar dream For that, we tend to forget about the people who love us the most You know what I'm saying? Can't forget your fam, can't forget your friends on your road to glory Cause as easy as god put them in your life, they could be gone