How to Lose Your Mind

[Hook] First you drop out of school, then you get yourself a job But it doesn't pay enough, so then you move back in with mom Now you spend all of your time just writin' rhymes and gettin' high Welcome to this life of mine. This is how you lose your mind [Verse 1] Hello, boys and girls it's uncle Reef I'm back to tell you a brand new tale About how you can try in life But in the end you'll always fail I'm in jail, well not really Just seems that I've been cursed You see children I am living with the lady who game me birth Could be worse ummm... No, not really, you see kids I am grown I was out on my own Now I'm living back at home Where'd I go wrong? How I got here thats a story within itself Got a little time I'll drop this rhyme Maybe you could offer some help [Hook] First you drop out of school, then you get yourself a job But it doesn't pay enough, so then you move back in with mom Now you spend all of your time just writin' rhymes and gettin' high Welcome to this life of mine. This is how you lose your mind This is... [Verse 2] So I'm in school right, got a cool new life In the dorms blowin' orange and brew lights with two dikes Smut-ass, cut class, just to puff ash It was fun then, lookin' back I fucked up bad Lost my scholarship Ain't nothing in my wallet kid But a condom and in the fridge is condiments So my pride i swallowed it Now I'd like you to listen To the following conversation Call mom, she ragin', said with me shes lost all patience It's up to me to make the payments On the student loans and no way in hell am I movin' home I'd told her I'd get a job and shit, I don't think she was impressed This is the life of a college drop out way before some Kanye West, nigga please [Hook] First you drop out of school then you get yourself a job But it doesn't pay enough so then you move back in with mom Now you spend all of your time just writin' rhymes and gettin' high Welcome to this life of mine. This is how you lose your mind This is... [Verse 3] Job to job, check to check Crib to crib, livin' neck to neck With roommates never payin' rent by the due date In my mouth no food taste, just toothpaste It was one or the other I was a step away from being a bum in the gutter But I'm the son of my mother She sees my tryin', rib startin' to show she sees me dyin' Makes me and offer I can't refuse At home I can move, til I'm back on my shoes On my feet rather, full circle in my life without a complete chapter It's kind of hard with everybody in the streets laughing Cause went back in the womb from the tomb Presume the unpredictabul, roomin' at home, peep the visual At least I got new material, ma' we ain't got no more cereal What you mean we ain't got no more cereal? Ma', we ain't got no more cereal, ma' Well get yo ass to the store and get you cereal, your grown! *Sigh* God damn it! [Verse 4] See at first I was hesitant about my new residence I though I'd regret it But it turned out a blessing in disguse but I Still need a setitive To deal with the recklessness of livin' with my relatives It's not so bad but my credit is that level and Feels like a second chance id never get it in my head forever damn Tryin' to guess my days like the weatherman, whatever man I'd never stand on my own again, have my own home again Uncle skip and my declone the ham I live in my little sisters old bedroom Bang my head on the ceiling everytime my head move It's the best move No girls gonna respect you When you rest in the nest dude I should just move, but I'm not stable enough I'm not able and there's food on the table, free cable and stuff I'm not payin for stuff, I'm not payin for stuff