Keep Your Head Up Lyrics

I remember nights thinking days like this didn't exist

Especially for someone with this color skin

See I looked at how my momma struggled looking just like them

But every hood got a Kesha

That can barely pay her bills

Our story ain't no different, four kids, different niggas

And they don't know nothing to do with their children

Got tired of having less, so I started taking more

Ay cuz it ain't locked shit, open up the door

Man, what the fuck they got that brand new Carter two

And I just stole a walkman so I can bump this shit to school

Lemme grab this lil change for the mason jar just tucked away

Cause grand daddy said pennies

Gotta make dollars one day

And he in lying playing spades man, I dumped the sock

They used to clown me for Abraham, but he changed a lot

Now I ain't got to call Tay to switch shoes in the parking lot

Envied that nigga cause he had designer and his pops

I know hard times gon' come someday, yeah, yeah, yeah

And I know it's hard to keep your faith, yeah, yeah, yeah

But through those dark clouds the sun gon' shine

Keep your poker face, your smile

Keep your head up, don't hold it down, no, no, no

If I wasn't next to Danielle, I was sleeping in the car

Or laying on the hood looking

Up at the stars

Parked in Faye's front yard, when I knew she was a sleep

Her baby boy but I didn't want her worried about me

Cause me and my mama had beef, and I ain't had nowhere to sleep

Remember nights running out of gas so I could have heat

Now a nigga hotter than Satan in the summer with a fever

Married to the baddest diva with private islands for our leisure

Look, one mill ain't enough

Need a meal for every day I ain't eat it if it wasn't school lunch

We were down bad, on our luck

And if you judge a book by its cover, you couldn't see we had it rough

Back then I felt like money was a myth

Cause we ain't never have it so I thought it didn't exist

Now a rose gold presidential compliment my wrist

And I ain't trying to brag, I say that to say this

I know hard times gon' come someday, yeah, yeah, yeah

And I know it's hard to keep your faith, yeah, yeah, yeah

But through those dark clouds the sun gon' shine

Keep your poker face, your smile

Keep your head up, don't hold it down, no, no, no