Don't Be Like Me

Verse 1

Look

Don't do it

The feds watching the block through a pinhole lens

They want me

They want my friends

I got blood on my sneakers from a guy I hit

Empty stomach

Trying to find a place to hide this brick

Cold nights

I am shaking

I am starving

I am breaking

Everything is bad

I got a scar across my face from a jagged blade

No doctor

Just a rag and some cheap lemonade

Stupid choices

My mother cries

My brother dies

My spirit fries

I sell poison to kids just to pay the rent

Every dollar I make is already spent

Chorus

You don't want this life

Trust me

You don't want this life

Trust me

It's just pain and dirt and being alone

I am dying by the telephone

I am dying by the telephone

I am dying by the telephone

Verse 2

Stinking

Trash everywhere

I sleep with a pistol under my greasy head

One eye open

Thinking about the people who want me dead

My hands stay dirty

I can't wash the grease off my skin

No matter how hard I scrub

The sin stays in

The sin stays in

The sin stays in

I kicked a man until his teeth fell on the floor

I stole his watch

Then I went and stole some more

No glory

Just a jail cell with a metal bed

No food

Just a bullet waiting for my head

Bullets hurt

Guns are loud

Prisons suck

I am not proud

I am a loser with a gold chain

I am a loser with a lot of brain strain

Chorus

You don't want this life

Trust me

You don't want this life

Trust me

It's just pain and dirt and being alone

I am dying by the telephone

I am dying by the telephone

I am dying by the telephone

Bridge

Run away

Go to school

Don't be a fool

Find a job

Don't go rob

I am stuck in the mud

I am covered in blood

It's not cool

It's not a movie

It's just gross

I am close to the end

I have no friend

Verse 3

Locked up

Room smells like piss and old bleach

The world is gone

Way out of my reach

I got stabbed in the yard for a pack of smokes

This isn't fun

It's not for the folks

I miss my bed

I miss my mom

Everything I did was totally wrong

My shoes are gone

My hope is gone

My life is gone

I am a bum

I am a bum

I am a bum

The concrete is hard and the lights never stop

I wish I never tried to be a big shot

Chorus

You don't want this life

Trust me

You don't want this life

Trust me

It's just pain and dirt and being alone

I am dying by the telephone

I am dying by the telephone

I am dying by the telephone

Outro

Stop it

Go home

Leave the gun

Don't be like me

I am a failure

Total failure

I am nothing

Nothing at all

Just a body on the floor

A body on the floor

Don't look at me