Castle Walls

[Hook: 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 [Verse 1: 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 a butler, got a maid, and a mansion The belief is that I'm living out a millionaire's fantasy With phantoms and ferrari's in the driveway But you see the fame's in exchange for the same man's sanity Your vision jaded by the Grammy's on the mantelpiece Just switch your camera lenses you would see the agony Apparently it's damaging the man you see before you On the canvas he may seem alright but all the diasadvantages his family Encounters overshadows his extravagance Walk in my nines a while I dare you, would it scare you While it surely seem like King's life ain't glamourous As seen through the eyes of untrained amateurs Because the camera doesn't see beyond the walls of the smiles Only counts until it falls in the pile [Hook] [T.I.] Honestly to me, I think I'd lose every benefit of all that I've accomplished If my kids never win at 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 opportunity But they just don't equate to all the time they take away From the kids all the shit 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, Domani wasn't rich, nope So me being the G.O.A.T. shouldn't mean more to me Than seeing to it King go From a badass kid to a man with some dough Otherwise I may as well have stayed poor Otherwise I may well have stayed poor So while they stay focused on me beefin with Flip Shawty Lo, Gucci or Ludacris Or if I'm fucking with a ho 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 That slap me in the face, ay I'm just a 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 you dawg See you can't see the castle through the walls till it falls Bitch ain't thinking with the deep, did you dawg Cause see you can't see the castle through the walls till it falls [Hook] [Bridge: Christina Aguilera] 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 shit 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 But the day that I walk away I ain't saying that I'm amazing Down playing the way I kept 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 surrounded by the fakest 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 you 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 what used to be a house He did shit that all your favorites 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 [Hook]