Not Always Lyrics

For me, I tell you, I'm sorry I didn't have love in myself when I was growing up

If you would have learned love at a young age, like eight, nine, ten years

You would have changed different because your heart would have given you to do a lot of stuff in your life

It's not always that we're sitting on a mountain top

Most of the time we're tripping on how much more time we got

See there's a reason for the highs and lows and do's and nots

Through every season you gon' learn about yourself a lot

And it's not always that we're thinking bout a lovely thought

Turn on the TV and you see somebody just got shot

I'm just trying to love my neighbor up in this melting pot

How did my savior stay so pure upon this floating rock

I know there's so much to be thankful for, I'm truly glad

I can't forget the miracles you answered for my dad

Just help my family love each other and protect the pad

Just keep my mother up on her feet, help me make her glad

I'm trying to make my music better, straighten out my path

Something for my cousin, sister, brother, like some greener grass

Breath of fresh air, good times when we meet in pass

We ain't promised tomorrow, this moment we gon' make it last

That situation isn't bigger than the love you had

Time to rekindle with the love you thought you didn't have

That motivation is inside you when you feeling sad

Give your burdens up to Jesus, trade it in for praying hands

You got the power to be free, you gotta take a stand

Don't be the reason that you're blinded and didn't understand

We'll get it right, make it happen, I just know we can

It starts with you, don't be scared to take all to lend a hand

It's not always that we're sitting on a mountain top

Most of the time we're tripping on how much more time we got

See there's a reason for the highs and lows and do's and nots

Through every season you gon' learn about yourself a lot

And it's not always that we're thinking bout a lovely thought

Turn on the TV and you see somebody just got shot

I'm just trying to love my neighbor up in this melting pot

How did my savior stay so pure upon this floating rock

As I sit and struggle with these disappointments filtering through the pain

All of the rubble around the tracks of this here crazy train my brain

Always gon' have a rebuttal cause I am anointed, it ain't for the fame

Taking the rainy day puddles and using that water to grow some grass that's green

Trying to keep my soul clean, that's why God he intervene

All go bad when I do my thing, really do flow when I pray for the dream

All go better when you got a team, gotta expect someone probably gon' scheme

All for the cheddar, all for the green, don't let it change the way you're trying to find peace

Even though we grew up in these streets, there ain't no need to bust your heat

Taking a life and come with a fee, fighting your demons eternally

We can still learn to turn the cheek, give it some time, I say bout a week

Write a few rhymes, cook up some beats, something bout music bring L-O-V-E

It's not always that we're sitting on a mountain top

Most of the time we're tripping on how much more time we got

See there's a reason for the highs and lows and do's and nots

Through every season you gon' learn about yourself a lot

And it's not always that we're thinking bout a lovely thought

Turn on the TV and you see somebody just got shot

I'm just trying to love my neighbor up in this melting pot

How did my savior stay so pure upon this floating rock