Ooooooo I've been travelin on this road too long
Just trying to find my way back home
The old me is dead and gone, dead and gone

Ever had one of dem days you wish woulda stayed home [bad word] into a group of niggas getting they hate on
You walk by they get wrong
You reply then [bad word] get blown
Way outta proportion way past discussion
Just you against them, pick one [bad word] em
Figure you get your hair? that next
They dont wanna stop there now they buzzin
Now you gushin, [bad word] you to the hospital
With a bad concussion
Plus ya hit 4 times plus it hit
Ya spine paralyzed waist down now ya wheel chair bound
Never mind that now you lucky to be alive,
Just think it all started you fussin with 3 guys
Now ya pride in the way but ya pride is the way
You could [bad word] around get shot die anyday
People die every day all over bull [bad word] 
Dope money dice game ordinary hood [bad word] 
Could this be cuz of hip hop music
Or did the ones with the good sense not use it
Usually people don't know what to do
When their back against the wall so they just start shootin
For red or for blue or for blow I guess,
From Bankhead or from your 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's sake
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

Ooooooo I've been travelin on this road too long
Just trying to find my way back home
The old me is dead and gone, dead and gone

I ain't never been scared, I lived through tragedy
Situation coulda 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 apartments hangin smokin and rappin
**** start [bad word] didn't next thing ya know we cappin
Get locked up then didn't even get mad
Now think about [bad word] what a life I had
Most of that [bad word] look back just laugh
Some [bad word] still look back just sad
Maybe my homeboy still be around
Had I not hit the **** in the mouth that time
I won that fight, I lost that war
I can still see my [bad word] walkin out that door
Who'da thought I'd never see Philant no more
Got enough dead homies I don't want no more
Cost a [bad word] his job, cost me more
I'da took that [bad word] whoopin now for sure
Now think before I risk my life
Take them chances to get my stripes
*** put his hands on me alright
Otherwise stand there talk [bad word] all night
Cuz I hit you, you sue me,
I shoot you, get locked up, who me?
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's sake
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

Ooooooo I've been travelin on this road too long
Just trying to find my way back home
The old me is dead and gone, dead and gone

I turn my head to the east I dont see nobody by my side
I turn my head to the west still nobody in sight
So I turn my head to the north, swallow that pill that they call pride
The old me is dead and gone, the new me will be alright
I turn my head to the east I dont see nobody by my side
I turn my head to the west still nobody in sight
So I turn my head to the north, swallow that pill that they call pride
The old me is dead and gone, the new me will be alright

Ooooooo I've been travelin on this road too long
Just trying to find my way back home
The old me is dead and gone, dead and gone