Ay, lemme kick it to you right quick man
Not on some gangsta [bad word] man on some real [bad word] Anybody who been through the same thing
I'm sure you feel the same way

Oh hey, I've been travelin' on this road too long
Just tryin' to find my way back home
But the old me's dead and gone
Dead and gone
And oh hey, I've been travelin' on this road too long
Just tryin' to find my way back home
But the old me's dead and gone
Dead and gone, dead and

Ever had one of them days wish you would have stayed [bad word] into a group of niggas who gettin' their hate on
You walk by, they get wrong, you reply then [bad word] get blown
Way out of proportion way past discussion
Just you against them, pick one [bad word] them
Figure you get jumped here that's next
They don't wanna stop there now they bustin'

Now you gushin', [bad word] 
You to the hospital with a bad concussion
Plus you hit four times but it hit yo spine
Paralyzed waist down and ya wheelchair bound
Never mind that now you lucky to be alive
Just thinkin' it all started fussin' wit three guys [bad word] pride in the way but your pride is the way you can [bad word] Around get shot down any day

Niggas die everyday, all little [bad word] Dope money, dice games, ordinary hood [bad word] Could this be cuz of hip-hop music
Or did the ones with the good sense not use it?
Usually niggas don't know what to do when they back against the wall
So they just start shootin'
For red or for blue or for blow I guess
From Bankhead at the old projects

No more stress, now I'm straight
Now I get it, now I take time to think
Before I make mistakes just for my family stake
That part of me left yesterday
The heart of me is strong today
No regrets I'm blessed to say the old me dead and gone away

Oh hey, I've been travelin' on this road too long
Just tryin' to find my way back home
But the old me's dead and gone
Dead and gone
And oh hey, I've been travelin' on this road too long
Just tryin' to find my way back home
But the old me's dead and gone
Dead and gone, dead and

I ain't neva been scared, I live through tragic
Situations could been dead lookin' back at it
Most of that [bad word] didn't even have to happen
But you don't think about it when you out there trappin'
In the apartments hangin', smokin' and rappin'
Niggas start [bad word] next thing we know we cappin'
Get locked up then didn't even get mad
Now I think about that what a life I had

Most of that [bad word] look back just laugh
Some [bad word] still look back get sad
Thinkin' my home boy still be around
Had I not hit the [bad word] in the mouth that time
I won that fight I lost that war
I could still see my [bad word] walkin' out that door
Who would of thought I'd never see Philant no more
Got enough dead homies I don't want no more

Cuz a [bad word] his jump cost me more
I'd a took that [bad word] whoopin' out for sure
Now think before I risk my life
Take them chances to get my stripes
[bad word] put his hands on me alright
Otherwise stand there talk [bad word] all night
Cuz I hit you and you sue me
I shoot you get locked up poor me

No more stress now I'm straight
Now I get it now I take time to think
Before I make mistake just for my family stake
That part of me left yesterday
The heart of me is strong today
No regrets I'm blessed to say the old me dead and gone away

Oh hey, I've been travelin' on this road too long
Just tryin' to find my way back home
But the old me's dead and gone
Dead and gone
And oh hey, I've been travelin' on this road too long
Just tryin' to find my way back home
But the old me's dead and gone
Dead and gone

I turn my head to the east, I don't see nobody by my side
I turn my head